Lucie Plow

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Lucie Pflug (born February 24, 1916 in Kunersdorf , Brandenburg ; † November 9, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German party and cultural functionary in the GDR .

Life

Pflug, the daughter of a blacksmith , attended elementary school . From 1930 to 1932 she completed an apprenticeship as a typist and was then unemployed until 1934. From 1934 to 1943 she was the editorial secretary of the Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung at the Delius, Klasing & Co. publishing house in Berlin. From 1943 to 1945 she was a housewife.

Already in her early youth she was oriented towards socialism and in 1932 she joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , she did illegal political work in Berlin. After the war ended in 1945 she became a member of the Communist Party of Germany , in 1946 after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD she became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1946, Lucie Pflug worked for the Berlin Aufbau-Verlag as an editorial secretary, editor and, from 1949, head of duty at the weekly newspaper Sonntag . In the 1950s she was chairman of the company union management and from 1952 to 1954 secretary of the SED's company party organization. In 1952 she took part in the first advanced training course for publishers at the Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg . In 1954/55, after being delegated by Walter Janka , she attended a course at the “Karl Marx” party college . In 1955 she switched to a full-time position in the Central Committee of the SED and in 1956 became head of the publishing sector at the SED Central Committee. Here Lucie Pflug played an essential role in aligning literature and publishing and books on the party line. “In her twenty years as a sector leader of the SED Central Committee, she made lasting contributions to the successful development of the publishing industry and the book trade in the GDR,” it said on her 60th birthday in the SED central organ Neues Deutschland .

In 1978 she retired. Until 1988 she worked on the board of the publishers' association. From 1983 to 1990 she was secretary of a housing party organization of the SED.

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  1. ↑ Elmar Faber, Carsten Wurm (ed.): And quiet cheers would move in. Author and publisher letters 1950–1959 . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-7466-0108-8 , p. 21.
  2. ^ Comrade Lucie Pflug . In: Neues Deutschland , February 25, 1976.
personal data
SURNAME Plow, Lucie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party and cultural functionary in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Kunersdorf , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1993
Place of death Berlin