Johanna Ludewig

Johanna Ludewig (born March 28, 1891 in Berlin ; † July 11, 1958 in West Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD ). She was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Life

Ludewig, daughter of a master plumber , attended business school and worked from 1907 to September 1928 as an accountant and authorized signatory in various Berlin companies. In 1912 she joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). As department head of the Social Democratic Electoral Association for the first Berlin constituency, she was a member of the new left central executive committee from 1916 and became a member and functionary of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) during the First World War . At the end of 1920 she moved with the left wing of the USPD to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

From March 1919 she was a member of the USPD parliamentary group in the Berlin city council , and from July 1920 she was a member of the city council of the new unified community of Greater Berlin as a USPD or KPD member . From 1921 to 1933 she was also a member of the Prussian state parliament.

Ludewig was particularly active in the communist women's and girls' movement. From 1927 she was secretary of the Red Women 's and Girls ' Union and from 1932 head of the women's and girls' squadron in the League against Fascism .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, she first emigrated to Great Britain and then went to Denmark . However, Ludewig returned to Germany in 1934 and worked again as an accountant in Berlin. She was placed under police supervision and summoned to the Gestapo several times and interrogated there. As part of the so-called “ Aktion Gewitter ” she was arrested on August 20, 1944 and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . There she was released on September 12, but held for several weeks in the Berlin police prison.

After 1945 she was back in her profession, but no longer made a political statement. She died in West Berlin in 1958.

Fonts

• Fascists - the enemies of working women . In: International Press Conference , March 1, 1932.

literature

• Active Museum Association : In Front of the Door - Berlin City Councilors and Magistrate Members Persecuted During National Socialism 1933–1945 , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , p. 278.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume 12 [Second Supplementary Volume, K – Z]. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89626-368-4 , p. 115.
• Ludewig, Johanna . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 562.