Irene Heller

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Irene Heller , née Jencsa (born March 20, 1913 in Berlin ; † December 2, 1986 there ) was a German politician ( SED ). She was state chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (DFD) in Saxony and a member of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Life

After attending school, she learned the trade of an office clerk . She emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1938 and lived in Prague . She returned to Germany in 1945, became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and district women officer of the KPD in Oschatz . From 1946 she was a member of the SED. As the successor to Mizzi Kaschner , she held the position of state chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD) in Saxony from 1949 to 1951. From 1950 to 1954 she was a member of the DFD parliamentary group of the People's Chamber of the GDR and was a member of the budget and finance committee. In March 1951 she went to Berlin as an instructor in the Culture Department of the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED, from 1952 to 1954 she was department head in the federal executive committee of the DFD and from 1954 she was again a member of the SED ZK. Later she was party secretary at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin and, until she retired in 1973, she was the BGL chairperson at the Berlin printing plant.

Irene Heller died at the age of 73 and was buried in the Baumschulenweg cemetery in Berlin.

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Lexicon of organizations and institutions, departmental union management , League for Friendship between Nations (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6348). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9 , p. 190.
  • Jochen Staadt (Ed.): “The conquest of culture begins!” The State Commission for Art Affairs (1951–1953) and the SED's cultural policy . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-60548-6 , p. 24.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , June 10, 1954, p. 1.
  2. ^ Obituary notice of the Berlin printing company in: Berliner Zeitung , January 3, 1987, p. 14.
  3. ^ Obituary notice from the SED district leadership in Berlin-Mitte in: Berliner Zeitung , December 18, 1986, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jencsa, Irene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), member of the People's Chamber of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1986
Place of death Berlin