Lotte Bust
Charlotte Bust , née Fiebrich , (born May 25, 1900 in Mühlhausen , † 1992 ibid.) Was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and a functionary of the SED . She was a member of the Thuringian state parliament and first chairman of the SED district party control commission in Erfurt.
Life
Lotte Bust came from a working class family. After attending elementary school, she worked as a knitter and from 1917 belonged to the German Textile Workers' Association. She became a member of the KPD during the Weimar Republic in 1932 and belonged to the Association of Friends of the Soviet Union . During the time of National Socialism she did illegal resistance work and was incarcerated in the first central concentration camp for female “ protective prisoners ”, the Moringen am Solling concentration camp (north of Göttingen).
After 1945 she held responsible positions in the SED party apparatus. From 1946 to 1950 she was a member of the SED parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament and from August 1952 to February 1953 she was the first chairwoman of the SED district party control commission in Erfurt. She was recalled and replaced by Max Rölz . Afterwards she was a member of the district assembly Mühlhausen and later chairwoman of the district committee Mühlhausen of the committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR .
She died in Mühlhausen at the age of 92.
Awards
- Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945
- 1959 Clara Zetkin Medal
- 1975 Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO) in silver, 1980 in gold and 1985 honor bar for the VVO in gold
literature
- Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History, organization, politics. A manual. Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 926.
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Bust, Lotte |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fiebrich, Charlotte (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anti-fascist resistance fighter, functionary (SED) |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1900 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mulhouse |
DATE OF DEATH | 1992 |
Place of death | Mulhouse |