Lore boy

Lore Junge , born Laura Wilhelmine Marie Kröger (born March 19, 1923 in Dortmund ; † August 29, 2009 there ), was a German political activist.

Life

Lore was born as the daughter of the anti-fascists Wilhelmine and Wilhelm Kröger on March 19, 1923 in Dortmund. Her father was a miner, her mother without a job. Her mother was unable to learn the trade she wanted, a saleswoman, because her parents were unable to buy her the three prescribed gowns. Lore Kröger had to break off her training with a Jewish lawyer after he had to dismiss her due to the racial laws of National Socialism . She then trained as a shorthand clerk at the Heinrich August Schulte company . After her father was sentenced as a communist to several years in prison, her mother tried to look after the family as a cleaner and laundress.

In December 1945 Lore Kröger married the resistance fighter and concentration camp inmate Heinz Junge. Heinz Junge had already founded a youth ring in Dortmund in the summer and Lore Junge worked there as a secretary. After the mountain accident at the Monopol colliery in Bergkamen , in which 405 miners died, Lore Junge campaigned for the families of the victims. She organized a recreational trip for the children in several buses to the Soviet-occupied zone. Junge was active as a communist for the next few years.

In 1947 she was involved in founding the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime (VVN). She worked on the executive board for 20 years.

After the KPD was banned in 1956, she worked in the working group “ Happy Holidays for All Children ”. Thanks to the working group, working class children were able to spend inexpensive holidays in the GDR. When the working group was banned in 1961, numerous members were charged and convicted of " endangering the state " and "preparing for high treason ". Lore Young was sentenced to nine months probation. Then she worked again as an office worker and got a job in the city administration of Dortmund, later in the youth music school.

Junge was active in the Sachsenhausen Committee and in the International Romberg Park Committee, she worked on the exhibition "Resistance and Persecution in Dortmund" and was one of the founders of the Friends of the Steinwache Memorial. She was also a co-founder of the youth movement Groß-Dortmund - today the Dortmund Youth Ring - and a member of the Democratic Women's Association . After she retired, she wrote three books on women resisting fascism.

With their commitment, Junge contributed to the fact that the streets of a new settlement in Dortmund-Menglinghausen were named after Hombruch resistance fighters. In 2006 she and Gisa Marschefski received the Badge of Honor of the City of Dortmund and she is the winner of the Ewald Sprave Prize awarded by the SPD in the Dortmund district of Hombruch for "courageous and committed appearance against hatred and violence, for tolerance, social commitment and human dignity".

Lore and Heinz Junge had a son, Reinhard (* 1946). Heinz Junge died in October 2004, Lore Junge on August 29, 2009 at the age of 86.

Works

• Persecuted - tormented - murdered: Dortmund women 1933–1945. Ingrid Lessing Verlag, Dortmund 1996, ISBN 3-929931-02-8 .
• Shackled with barbed wire. The Romberg Park Murders. Victim and perpetrator. Ruhr-Echo-Verlag, Bochum 1999, ISBN 3-931999-07-6 .
• Memories of France. Ingrid Lessing Verlag, Dortmund 2001, ISBN 3-929931-10-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} irpk: Farewell to Lore Junge. In: wordpress.com. September 25, 2009, accessed August 16, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Persecuted - tormented - murdered Lore Junge. In: lessing-verlag.de. www.lessing-verlag.de, accessed on August 16, 2016 . 
3. ↑ nrw.vvn-bda.de
4. ^ VVN / BdA NRW - Farewell to Lore Junge. In: vvn-bda.de. www.nrw.vvn-bda.de, accessed on February 13, 2017 .