Hildegard Gurgeit

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Hildegard ("Hilde") Gurgeit (born November 8, 1913 in Berlin ; † January 14, 2005 there ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and SED functionary.

Life

Gurgeit graduated from 1932 to 1934 a two-year commercial apprenticeship and was subsequently used as a clerk operates. She joined the SAJ in 1931 and the SPD in 1932 . From 1934 she was active as political director of the Wedding sub-district leadership of the now banned KJVD . In 1935 Gurgeit emigrated to Czechoslovakia . From 1935 to 1937 she attended the International Lenin School in Moscow . After her return to Czechoslovakia, she worked for the Prague KPD leadership and became an instructor for Central Silesia . Gurgeit did illegal border work. In August 1938 she went from the Braunau section (Czechoslovakia) to Waidenburg and Breslau to re-establish party links in the country. When she drove from Mährisch-Ostrau to Breslau in September 1938 , everything went smoothly at first. She was only arrested during a conspiratorial meeting with comrades in Breslau. The People's Court sentenced a year later, taking into account pre-trial detention to eight years ' imprisonment . From 1939 to 1942 Gurgeit was imprisoned in the women's penitentiary in Cottbus and from 1942 to 1945 in the penitentiary of Rheda (Westphalia).

After the liberation , she worked with the OdF committee in Berlin until September 1945 and later became a member of various Nazi victim organizations ( VVN , Berlin Association of Former Participants in the Anti-Fascist Resistance, Persecuted by the Nazi Regime and Survivors (BV VdN) eV, Bund the anti-fascists). Then she was secretary for agitation and propaganda of the KPD district leadership Prenzlauer Berg until 1946 and 1946/47 consultant in the main education office of the Berlin magistrate . She joined the SED, joined the DFD and the FDJ . From 1948 she completed a degree in economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which she graduated in 1958 with a degree in economics. She then worked from 1951 to 1961 as a political assistant or sector manager for planning and finance at the Central Committee of the SED . From 1958 to 1989 she was a member of the Central Revision Commission of the SED. Gurgeit was elected to the Revision Commission on July 16, 1958 at the fifth party congress of the SED and was confirmed in this position at all subsequent party conventions. From 1961 to 1963 she was a research assistant at the Economic Research Institute of the State Planning Commission (SPK), then from 1963 to 1964 head of the teaching cabinet of the party college "Karl Marx" .

The resistance fighter Netti Christensen was buried with her in 2006 in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery.

Awards

In the GDR she received the following awards, among others:

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 104.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 99.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter A. Schmidt: So that Germany live. A source work on the German anti-fascist resistance struggle 1933–1945 . 2nd Edition. Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 501.
  2. ^ Karl Mewis: On behalf of the party. Experiences in the fight against the fascist dictatorship . 2nd, revised edition. Dietz, Berlin 1972, pp. 186f.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Zarusky : The German Resistance to National Socialism and the Munich Agreement , p. 228 f. In the S. (Ed.): The Munich Agreement of 1938 from a European perspective: A joint publication of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin and the Collegium Carolinum. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, pp. 217–248.
  4. ↑ Federal Archives, Hildegard Gurgeit estate, NY 4589/4 certificates for awards
personal data
SURNAME Gurgeit, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gurgeit, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter against National Socialism and SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2005
Place of death Berlin