Lisa Ullrich
Elisabeth "Lisa" Ullrich , later Elisabeth Dreßler, (born August 12, 1900 in Odessa ; † June 5, 1986 in East Berlin ) was a German politician (KPD).
Life
Lisa Ullrich was born in Odessa in 1900 to German parents. After her parents returned to Germany, where her father worked as a typesetter, she attended elementary school . Ullrich then completed an apprenticeship as a tailor and worked in the following years as an industrial worker (clothing, electrical and food industry) and tailor. From 1918 onwards she was committed to the “revolutionary movement” in Germany, according to the handbook of the Reichstag members. At the end of 1920 she joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), in which she held various functionary posts in the 1920s. Among other things, she worked in the women's department of the Central Committee. Ullrich's first marriage, which was concluded in 1924, was divorced in 1925.
In July 1932 Ullrich was elected to the Reichstag as her party's candidate for constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen) , of which she was a member until March 1933.
After the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” in the spring of 1933, Ullrich was active in the illegal communist underground movement . On February 7, 1933, she took part in the illegal meeting of the Central Committee of the KPD in the sports store Ziegenhals near Berlin. She was arrested in 1934 and sentenced to three years in prison on January 20, 1935 . After a relatively short stay in the Jauer women's prison , she was transferred to the Moringen concentration camp in 1936 at the latest , from which she was transferred to the Lichtenburg concentration camp in 1938 . Ullrich was later imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . There she was tortured by withholding medication to treat her health problems, and in 1944 her fellow inmates elected her as block elder .
In 1945 Ullrich rejoined the KPD or the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1948 she completed a six-month course at the Karl Marx party college in order to subsequently work in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry until 1964 . On May 6, 1955, she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and in 1980 with the honor bar for the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed January 6, 2013]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Lisa Ullrich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lisa Ullrich in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Short biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of participants
- ↑ Gabriele Herz: The Women's Camp in Moringen , 2006, p. 167.
- ↑ Klaus Drobisch / Günther Wieland : The system of the Nazi concentration camps , 1993, p. 299.
- ↑ Hermann Weber: The Change of German Communism , 1969, p. 328.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ullrich, Lisa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ullrich, Elisabeth; Dreßler, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1986 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |