Lea Große

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Lea Große (nee Leja Lichter ; * May 12, 1906 in Czestochowa , Russian Empire ; † June 10, 1997 in Berlin ) was a Jewish, communist functionary and later editor-in-chief of the German soldier broadcaster .

Life

Lea Große was the second of four children of the Hasidic Jews Shimshon Lichter and Channa Lichter née. Kott. Her parents emigrated before the pogroms against the Jews . They initially lived in Leipzig , but at the beginning of the First World War they were transferred to Chemnitz and interned for civilians . From 1922 she received gymnastics and ballet lessons and was later trained as an orthopedic gymnastics teacher.

Lea Große joined the KJVD in 1927 and the KPD in 1929 . Because of her political views, her devout father disowned her. She was arrested for the first time in 1929 and then expelled from Germany. She then emigrated to the Soviet Union . From 1930 to 1932 she worked there for the Communist Youth International and the EKKI in Moscow and fulfilled party missions in Germany and France, among others.

In 1933 she returned to Germany and worked illegally as an instructor in Berlin, Holland, Belgium and France. After being arrested again in 1934, she was imprisoned for 19 months. Also because of their personal as well as political ties to Fritz Large convicted People's Court in 1936. to four years and eight months in prison in Jawor . In 1938 she was deported to Poland as a Polish citizen in the " Poland Action ". After the German invasion , she fled to the Soviet Union in September 1939 . There she was an editor at the Sturmvogel station in 1941 and in 1944 became the station manager at the "Free Germany" station .

In 1945 she returned to Germany. She married Fritz Große in 1946. Lea Große had two children, a daughter and a son, Fritz Große. In 1946 she became a member of the SED and editor of the MDR state broadcaster Saxony. From 1953 to 1955 she was the executive manager of the DEFA feature film studio .

After the death of her husband in 1957, she spent a large part of the post-war period in Berlin-Pankow . In 1960 she moved from DEFA to the " German Soldier Transmitter 935 ". There she worked as editor-in-chief until 1971. She later worked as a dramaturge and freelance journalist.

She joined the Jewish community in 1991. Lea Große was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Awards and honors

Works

  • Fritz, the Red Guard . New life, Berlin 1971.
  • An inventory . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1982.
  • Itog Schisni: memuary . Woennoe, Moskwa 1986 (Russian).
  • Diapers and blast furnaces . In: Martin Reso (ed.): Kumpel und Minister. Memories of Fritz Selbmann . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1979, p. 42ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Big one, Lea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lights (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish, communist functionary, editor-in-chief of the German soldier broadcaster
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Czestochowa , Poland
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1997
Place of death Berlin-Pankow