Luise Eildermann

Luise Eildermann , b. Gieber , (born May 23, 1899 in Speyer , † December 24, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and women's rights activist . In 1930/31 she was a member of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

Eildermann attended business school and was trained as a stenographer . In 1918 she became a member of the SPD , in 1919 the USPD and in 1920 the KPD. She was a full-time party functionary and from 1925 a secretary in the KPD district leadership of the Saar area . There she met Wilhelm Eildermann (1897–1988), also a member of the KPD and editor of the Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung ; both later married. When her husband was sentenced to high treason in Bremen in 1930, she followed him there. As early as 1930 she was elected as a member of the Bremen citizenship and soon became known for her talent for speech. In 1931 it is said to have caused a riot through a contribution in the citizenship. As an activist, she wrote and distributed leaflets and pamphlets. Her subject was in particular the situation and problems of unemployed women. In 1931, after her husband's release from prison, she gave up her citizenship mandate and moved with him to Rostock , where he became editor-in-chief of the People's Guard for the Mecklenburg-Schwerin and -Strelitz district.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Luise Eildermann continued to work illegally for the KPD and had to flee to France in July 1933. Her husband was arrested as an illegal agitprople leader in May 1933, taken to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and sentenced to 30 months in prison. He then lived in Bremen and in 1937 emigrated first to Czechoslovakia , then to Paris . Luise Eildermann worked under her code name Ossy since 1936 in Paris in the World Committee against War and Fascism . In 1936 she was in Spain when the Spanish Civil War broke out. From 1937 the Eildermanns lived together again. When the Second World War broke out in 1939 , like many Germans, they were interned. She was taken to the Petite Roquette Women's Prison and then to the Camp de Rieucros Detention Center . However, she was allowed to emigrate to Mexico , where she joined the Free Germany movement led by Ludwig Renn , Paul Merker and Otto Katz . Her husband emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1944 .

tomb

After the war, Luise Eildermann left Mexico in the fall of 1946 and traveled to her brother in New York City and Berlin. From December 1946 she worked there in the administration of the interior in the Soviet occupation zone . Her husband also returned in May 1947. Both became members of the SED . She then did volunteer work, he was editor-in-chief until 1951 and then became professor and director of the Institute for Journalism and Newspaper Studies at the University of Leipzig .

It was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg in the Memorial of the Socialists in the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried in Berlin.

Literature, sources

• Dagmar Stuckmann: Eildermann, Luise, b. Gleber . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report in the Bremer Volkszeitung from June 1931.