Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich

Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich (born October 29, 1920 in Berlin ; † July 14, 1992 ) was a journalist and women's politician in the GDR . From 1968 to 1981 she was editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Für Dich .

Life

Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich, born as Lieselotte Lehmann , trained as an industrial clerk and typist from 1937 to 1939 after finishing school . Then she worked as a secretary until the end of the war. In 1946, Thoms-Heinrich initially got a traineeship at the weekly newspaper “ Sonntag ”. She later worked as an editor for this newspaper until 1949. Then she moved to the SED party organ Neues Deutschland . There she started as an editor, later she headed the State Administration Department. In the course of time, Thoms-Heinrich rose to be a chief reporter and became a member of the editorial board. She studied part-time at the Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam and at the Technical School for Journalism in Leipzig . In 1968, Thoms-Heinrich moved to the most famous women's magazine in the GDR, Für Dich . As editor-in-chief, she had a major influence on this magazine until the age of retirement in 1981. As a pensioner, she worked as an employee of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED and as a freelance journalist. She wrote several books.

politics

Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich did not appear politically until 1945. In 1947 she was accepted as a member of the SED . During her time as an editor at Neues Deutschland, she was reprimanded by the Central Party Control Commission in July 1953 for the interview published on June 30, 1953 with the disgraced Max Fechner . This complaint did not represent an obstacle to her further political career. In 1963 she was proposed and also elected as the Berlin representative of the DFD for the election of the members of the People's Chamber . She then represented the DFD in the GDR parliament until 1990 and was a member of the committee for foreign affairs there. With her appointment as editor-in-chief of Für Dich, Liselotte Thoms-Heinrich experienced a further political upgrade. In 1968 she was appointed a member of the women's commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED, in the following year the members of the DFD elected her to the federal executive board and the presidium of their mass organization. Liselotte Thoms-Heinrich remained in these offices until the political change in 1989. In 1980 she received the Patriotic Order of Merit and in 1985 the Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit.

literature

• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Thoms-Heinrich, Lieselotte . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Rita Pawlowski: Our women stand by their husbands. Women in the People's Chamber of the GDR 1950-1989: A Biographical Handbook . trafo, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-652-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich in the catalog of the German National Library