Hedwig Kruger

Hedwig Kruger

Hedwig Krüger (born April 1, 1882 in Halle (Saale) ; † February 16, 1938 there ) was a communist German politician.

Life

Hedwig Krüger was born as the daughter of the former August Hennig and his wife Auguste. After attending secondary school and adult education center, Hedwig Krüger worked as an employee at a local health insurance fund and joined the SPD in 1908 . During the First World War she moved to the USPD , founded in 1917 , where she belonged to the left wing, which merged with the KPD to form the VKPD at the end of 1920 . The unification congress elected Hedwig Krüger to the party's central committee.

Sentenced to a prison term after the March action , Hedwig Krüger forced her to be released by means of a hunger strike . She was a member of the city council of her hometown. In May 1924 she was elected to the Reichstag for a few months , and in December of the same year to the Prussian state parliament . In the internal party factional struggles from 1924 onwards, Hedwig Krüger stood on the side of the "left" wing around Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow and initially supported them from 1925 against the new party leadership around Ernst Thälmann , but later, under pressure from the Central Committee , she distanced herself from her previous one Attitude. Local meetings of internal party opposition members around Otto Kilian continued to take place in her apartment .

In 1928 she was no longer put up as a candidate in the Prussian state elections and no longer played an important role in the KPD. After the takeover of the Nazi Party in 1933 Hedwig Kruger went into hiding, was arrested in November 1934, and in the on December 13th 1934 women's concentration camp Moringen brought. She was released in June 1935 and died in 1938 during an operation due to a delayed appendicitis .

literature

• Kruger, Hedwig . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Short biography in: Hermann Weber: The change of German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 2. Frankfurt / Main 1969, p. 198.
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdL, the end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995.
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
• Elke Stolze: The female "Gentlemen". Politicians in the Saxony-Anhalt region 1918–1945 . Mitteldeutscher Verlage, [Halle (Saale)] 2007, pp. 66–79, ISBN 978-3-89812-478-2

Web links

• Hedwig Krüger in the database of members of the Reichstag