Lotte Ulbricht

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Lotte and Walter Ulbricht in Leipzig, 1964
Willi Stoph in conversation with Lotte Ulbricht and Walter Ulbricht (1967)

Charlotte "Lotte" Ulbricht , née Kühn (born April 19, 1903 in Rixdorf ; † March 27, 2002 in Berlin ) was an SED functionary and the second wife of the GDR State Council Chairman Walter Ulbricht .

Life

Charlotte Kühn was the daughter of a laborer and a homeworker. After attending elementary and middle school, she worked as an office clerk and typist . She joined the Free Socialist Youth in 1919 and the KPD in 1921 . She worked as a stenographer for the Central Committee of the KPD, then in 1922/1923 for the Communist Youth International (KJI) in Moscow. In her book My Life , she described what a tremendous impression it had made on her to have actually been introduced to Lenin at a reception there in 1922 . From 1924 to 1926 she worked for the KPD parliamentary group. Then she became a member of the Central Committee of the KJVD , 1926/1927 archivist at the KJI and then until 1931 secretary and typist at the commercial agency of the Soviet Union in Berlin.

In 1931 she emigrated to Moscow with her first husband Erich Wendt . She was a consultant at the Communist International and completed a distance learning course at the Academy for Marxism-Leninism in 1932/33 . She broke off in 1935 when she began evening studies at the Communist University of the Western National Minorities in Moscow. After her husband was arrested in 1937 as part of the Great Terror , she was also subjected to an investigation and received a party reprimand in 1938. She lived with Walter Ulbricht since its appearance in Moscow in 1938. From 1939 to 1941 she worked as a typesetter in a printing company for foreign literature, then again until 1943 for the Communist International.

After her return to Germany in 1945 she headed the General Department of the Central Committee of the KPD . In 1946 Walter Ulbricht adopted a girl named Maria Pestunowa from an orphanage in Leipzig because the partnership with Lotte Wendt had remained childless. The adopted daughter, who was now called Beate Ulbricht , was the daughter of a Ukrainian slave laborer who was born in Leipzig on May 6, 1944 and who died in an air raid on Leipzig. Beate Ulbricht was found dead in her Berlin apartment in 1991.

After 1947 Lotte became Walter Ulbricht's personal assistant. After the marriage in May 1953, she began studying at the Institute for Social Sciences , which she graduated in 1959 as a social scientist. 1959–1973 she worked at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED , where she was responsible for editing the speeches and writings of Walter Ulbricht published by the institute. She was also a member of the Women's Commission at the Secretariat of the Central Committee and at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. She had been retired since July 1973.

Lotte Ulbricht has received numerous awards from the state and party leadership of the GDR. a. 1959, 1963 and 1978 the Patriotic Order of Merit , 1969 and 1983 the Karl Marx Order and in 1988 the Great Star of Friendship of Nations . After the political change in 1989 Lotte Ulbricht lived secluded in her house in Berlin-Niederschönhausen . She always rejected requests for interviews. After her cremation in the Meißen crematorium , she was buried in the urn community facility at the Weißensee cemetery.

Her older brother Bruno Kühn was targeted as a radio operator for the NKVD in Amsterdam in August 1943 , arrested by the Gestapo and shot in Brussels in 1944.

Fonts

  • An unforgettable trip . Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1965
  • Speeches and essays. 1943-1967 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin
  • "My life". Testimonials, letters and documents. Edited by Frank Schumann . Das Neue Berlin , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-360-00992-4

literature

Web links

Commons : Lotte Ulbricht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ines Geipel: How Ulbricht's adopted daughter fell for alcohol . In: Die Welt , July 24, 2009
  2. ^ Jürgen Helfricht : The cheap crematorium of Meißen. In: picture online . February 17, 2010, accessed August 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Karl Wilhelm Fricke  : Geschönter Walter . In: FAZ , December 24, 2003; short review
personal data
SURNAME Ulbricht, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühn, Lotte; Bold, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED) and second wife of the GDR State Council Chairman Walter Ulbricht
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Rixdorf
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2002
Place of death Berlin