Loni Günther

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Loni Günther (born July 3, 1928 in Suhl ) is a former German politician ( SED ). She was a member of the Thuringian state parliament and long-time secretary of the SED district leadership in Suhl .

Life

The daughter of a metalworker attended elementary and middle school. In 1946 she became a technical employee of the KPD city ​​leadership in Suhl and in the same year a member of the SED and youth secretary of the SED district leadership in Suhl. In 1947 she was head of the Suhl district party school and from 1948 to 1951 head of the women's department of the SED state leadership in Thuringia. From August 1950 to May 1952 she was a member of the Landtag of Thuringia . In 1951/52 she studied at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow .

When her husband Alwin Günther worked as a trade union official in East Berlin from 1952 , she got a position in the central party apparatus in Berlin and worked as a sector manager for radio and television and deputy head of the agitation and propaganda department in the central committee of the SED . After IG Metallurgie was dissolved and her husband was transferred to his home district of Suhl in 1958, she too returned to Suhl. Both became members of the SED district leadership there in 1958 and were members of the secretariat from 1966 to 1968.

From 1958 to 1966 she was the head of the agitation and propaganda department of the SED district leadership in Suhl. In June 1966 she became secretary for agitation and propaganda of the SED district leadership in Suhl (successor to Kurt Engelhardt ). She completed her studies at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED in February 1972 as a graduate social scientist. During the fall of the Wall in the GDR , she resigned from her party function in December 1989. In 1990 she retired and became a member of the Democratic Socialism Party (PDS).

Awards

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 261.
  • Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst : SED squad: The middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . 1st edition. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 215 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association newspaper of the people's solidarity of the regional association South Thuringia No. 11/2015 (accessed on March 4, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Loni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günther-Selig, Loni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl