Herta Dürrbeck

Herta Dürrbeck (née Petermann ; born September 25, 1914 in Misburg , † April 2, 1995 in Hanover ) was a German communist politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

After attending primary school in Misburg (1920–1928) and the municipal commercial school in Hanover (1928/1929), Herta Dürrbeck trained as an office clerk . In 1929 she joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany . From 1931 to 1933 she worked as a typist at Rote Hilfen until it was banned. She later worked as a worker in the Grebenstein suitcase factory in Hanover. In 1934 she was arrested and sentenced in August 1935 to imprisonment by the Hamm Higher Regional Court for “preparing for high treason ” . After she was released from prison in May 1936, she was placed under police supervision until the end of the war. In 1938 she married Karl Dürrbeck , and their son Peter was born in July 1939. After her apartment in Hanover was bombed out, she moved to Wietze in the Celle district in 1943 .

After the end of the war in 1945 she returned to Hanover and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1945 to 1949 she worked as an office worker for the KPD district leadership in Hanover. There she was also a political worker for women's policy and training work. From 1949 to 1953 she acted - at the suggestion of the KPD - as an assessor at the regional administrative court. From 1950 to 1953 she was the state secretary of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany in Lower Saxony. Dürrbeck represented the KPD in the second electoral period from April 22, 1953 to May 5, 1955 in the Lower Saxony state parliament and was a political employee of the KPD state leadership in Lower Saxony as well as a member of the secretariat and the cadre commission.

In 1962, she was arrested because of their commitment to the banned Communist Party and in 1964 in Lüneburg sentenced to ten months in prison, which she in the women's prison in Vechta and in the prison hospital spent Lingen.

Herta Dürrbeck's brother-in-law was the board member of IG-Metall Heinz Dürrbeck .

She was a member of the German Communist Party (DKP) since it was founded in 1968. From 1968 to 1989 she was a member of the Arbitration Commission of the DKP Lower Saxony.

Awards

• Clara Zetkin Medal (1956)

literature

• Bärbel Clemens (Ed.): Women make politics. Parliamentarians in Lower Saxony . Fackelträger-Verlag, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7716-1585-2 , pp. 203ff.
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 81.
• Klaus Mlynek : Dürrbeck, Herta. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 100.
• Klaus Mlynek: Dürrbeck, Herta. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 140.
• Peter Dürrbeck: Karl and Herta Dürrbeck. From the life of a Hanoverian working class family . Schöneworth Verlag, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-9811060-2-2 .
• Brunhild Müller-Reiss: Antifascist women in Hanover. Between independent action and family solidarity (= Lo.go. Volume 2). 1st edition. Ed. Assemblage, Münster: 2014, ISBN 978-3-942885-55-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} o. V .: Dürrbeck, Herta in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of August 11, 2006, last accessed on August 7, 2018.
2. ^ Stefan Müller: trade unionist, socialist and educational worker. Heinz Dürrbeck (1912–2001) , Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2010, p. 60