Lisa Krause

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Lisa Krause (born November 29, 1914 in Breslau ; † March 28, 1965 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German politician ( SED ). She was Lord Mayor of Dessau , a member of the People's Chamber and State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Supply of the GDR .

Life

The daughter of a locksmith and a farm worker, attended elementary school and worked as a commercial clerk. Like her father, she became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was imprisoned for a few weeks during the Nazi era.

In 1946 she came to the Soviet occupation zone as a resettler and became a member of the SED. She attended the Faculty of Social Sciences in Leipzig for three semesters and in November 1948 became director of the first HO department store in Dessau. After the appointment of the previous mayor Karl Adolphs as director of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, she was elected first mayor of the city of Dessau on November 30, 1949. From 1950 to 1954 she was a member of the SED parliamentary group of the People's Chamber . When she was appointed head of the State Administration Department in the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Saxony-Anhalt in November 1951, her term of office as Lord Mayor of Dessau ended.

On October 1, 1952, she was appointed as the successor to Paul Baender as State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Supply of the GDR. At the turn of the year 1952/53, she spent several weeks at the head of a ten-person study delegation made up of representatives from state trade, consumer cooperatives and private retailers in the Soviet Union . On February 2, 1953, she resigned from her position as State Secretary due to a serious illness. Friedrich Schneiderheinze was appointed her successor .

In 1954 she finally became secretary of the Halle District Council (successor to Helmut Becker ). From 1954 to 1957 she was a member of the federal executive committee of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (DFD). Most recently she was a member of the district leadership and the district party control commission of Halle of the SED.

Awards

literature

  • Rita Pawlowski (ed.): Our women stand by their husbands. Women in the People's Chamber of the GDR 1950 to 1989. A biographical handbook , trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-652-1 , p. 151.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait in Neues Deutschland from October 6, 1950.
  2. ^ Berliner Zeitung of December 2, 1949.
  3. ^ New Germany of October 6, 1950.
  4. New Times of November 18, 1951.
  5. ^ Minutes of the 103rd meeting of the Council of Ministers on October 3, 1952 - BArch DC 20-I / 3/144.
  6. Learn from Soviet Trade! . In: Neue Zeit, January 6, 1953, p. 1.
  7. ^ Minutes of the 115th meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 2, 1953 - BArch DC 20-I / 3/172.
  8. Portrait in Neues Deutschland from July 22, 1954.
  9. ↑ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from April 2, 1965, p. 6.