Hannelore Baender

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Hannelore Baender (née Goldschmidt ; born September 14, 1919 in Leipzig ; † April 12, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German teacher and politician ( SED ). From 1950 to 1952 she was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Hannelore Baender was born in Leipzig as the daughter of Hertha and Arthur Goldschmidt. Until 1929 she attended the private Schustersche Lehranstalt and until 1936 the First Higher Girls' School in Leipzig. She then studied at the Alice Bloch orthopedic-gymnastic institute in Stuttgart until 1938 and obtained her diploma that entitles her to teach at Jewish schools. During a trip to America and an eleven month stay in New York , she went to Bolivia in October 1939 , where her brother Peter lived, who advised her not to return home in view of the pogroms and persecution. In 1939, her parents were actually able to emigrate to America on the last ship from Hamburg and get asylum in Bolivia. In 1940 she met Paul Baender . They married and had a son. She worked as a physical education teacher and editor. She worked with her husband in a group called “Free Germany” and created a radio program with him in La Paz .

After the end of the Second World War , she returned to Germany in 1947 with her husband and son in a Swedish freighter via Argentina and Sweden. After a long wait in Gothenburg , they arrived in Berlin in November 1947 and reported to the SED party executive. Previously independent, she became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and initially worked for the press service of the SED party executive. In 1948 she became assistant to the education professor Robert Alt at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1949 she became secretary of the German Sports Committee (DSA), responsible for women's sports. In April 1951 she was a founding member of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR (NOK). During the World Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin in August 1951, she was responsible for the great sports parade.

In October 1950 she was elected as a member of the People's Chamber . She belonged to the FDJ faction and was a member of the economic committee. Her resignation was announced on December 17, 1952.

After returning from a cure in Bad Elster in November 1952, the Baender couple were arrested on charges of having committed crimes against the GDR and against peace. While Paul Baender was sentenced to six years in prison in July 1954 for “economic crimes”, she was released that same month without charge or trial. She then worked as an unskilled fitter in the radio factory of the EAW Berlin-Treptow . Eventually she was accepted back into the SED. She became the full-time party secretary of the SED in the radio factory and in 1958 in the VEB Berlin-Chemie . She attended the party college "Karl Marx" for a year , worked in the State Opera Unter den Linden and most recently from 1970 to 1977 in the Interhotel on Alexanderplatz .

Hannelore Baender died at the age of 70 and was buried in the cemetery in Berlin-Adlershof .

literature

  • Wolfgang Kießling : The Paul Baender case - a political thriller from the GDR's 50s . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-320-01705-5 .
  • Rita Pawlowski (ed.): Our women stand by their husbands. Women in the People's Chamber of the GDR from 1950 to 1989. A biographical handbook . trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-652-1 , p. 19f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The spy suspects ... . In: Neues Deutschland , June 16, 1990, p. 9.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Pieck received officials from the German Sports Committee . In: Neues Deutschland, July 20, 1951, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Berlin-Adlershof Cemetery (accessed on July 12, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Bands, Hannelore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldschmidt, Hannelore (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1990
Place of death Berlin