Lotte Pulewka

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Lotte Pulewka (born July 16, 1893 in Elbing , West Prussia , † November 6, 1966 in Potsdam ) was a German socialist.

Life

Lotte Pulewka was the daughter of a pharmacist and the sister of the pharmacologist Paul Pulewka . From 1900 to 1910 she attended the Lyceum in Elbing, from 1911 to 1914 she studied at the teachers' seminars in Königsberg and Potsdam . Through a cousin she got in touch with members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1913 she passed the examination as a vocational school teacher, in 1914 she became a member of the SPD. From 1915 she worked as a teacher in urban training in Berlin . There she got to know Hermann Duncker and his wife Käte Duncker , and from 1916 she worked with them illegally for the Young Spartakusbund . In 1918 she took an active part in the November Revolution and one year later became a member of the KPD , in 1919 she helped Wilhelm Pieck to escape from the Reich Military Court . In the same year she was arrested and released from school without notice.

In 1921/22 she lived in the household of the Duncker family in Siebleben near Gotha and taught their children. In 1922 she received an order from the KPD to emigrate to the Soviet Union in order to take over the management of the children's colony "Karl Liebknecht - Rosa Luxemburg" near Chelyabinsk for the International Workers Aid (IAH). In 1924 she worked as a housekeeper on an IAH estate. From 1925 to 1927 she was a member of an agricultural commune near Kurgan in Siberia . Between 1927 and 1931 she worked as a German teacher in Alma Ata and from 1931 to 1932 she headed the department for accepting, dismissing and distributing the workforce of the large state estate "Kok-cu" in the Altai Mountains.

From 1932 to 1936 she taught German at the college of the trade union movement at the Central Union Council in Moscow , and from 1937 to 1941 at a Moscow secondary school. After Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in World War II , she was forcibly evacuated to northern Kazakhstan near Karagandy in 1941, where she worked in the collective farm "New Being".

In 1946 Lotte Pulewka moved to the Soviet Zone in Potsdam, where she first worked as a translator for the provincial association of the KPD Brandenburg, after the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD for the SED state leadership and finally for the SED district leadership in Brandenburg. She later became a librarian for the SED district leadership in Potsdam. In 1958 she became a member of the district management of the pioneer organization Ernst Thälmann .

Lotte Pulewka died on November 6, 1966. Her urn was buried in the "Grove of Honor for Deserved Socialists" in Potsdam. In Geltow (1967) and Cottbus (1970), two children's homes, were named in Potsdam (1976), the 41 high school after her. Since 1973 there has been a street in Potsdam (district center-east) that bears her name.