Luise Zahn
Luise Zahn , née Luise Bäuml , (born November 22, 1919 in Plauen - † June 14, 2004 ) was a German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (SBZ) and the early German Democratic Republic (GDR) . From 1946 to 1950 she was a member of the Saxon state parliament and from 1949 to 1954 of the first people 's chamber .
Life
Bäuml, daughter of a tailor , worked after elementary and vocational school from July 1934 to May 1940 as a textile worker and then until 1943 as an office assistant in a magazine distributor in Plauen. From October 1943 to April 1945 she worked as a file keeper in an armaments factory in Plauen. After 1933 she did anti-fascist resistance work.
After the end of the Second World War , she joined the KPD in July 1945 and became a member of the FDJ and the SED in 1946 . In 1945/46 she worked as an employee of the Plauen city administration and attended the state youth school in Saxony . In 1946 Bäuml was elected to the Saxon state parliament, to which she belonged until 1950. In this function she was also a member of the provisional chamber of the GDR . In addition, she was from 1946 to 1949 councilor and member of the 1946-47 district leadership of the FDJ in Plauen. 1948/49 she worked as head of the youth welfare office in Plauen.
In 1949, Bäuml was elected to the FDJ parliamentary group of the People's Chamber and in the same year became head of department in the FDJ regional association of Saxony. From September 1950 to February 1951 she was secretary of the SED state leadership in Saxony. In 1951/52 she studied at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . From April to July 1952 she was again secretary of the SED country leadership. After the districts were formed, she was second secretary from August 1952 to February 1954 and from February 1954 to December 1954 secretary for agitation and propaganda of the Leipzig SED district leadership . From 1952 to 1954 she was also a member of the Leipzig District Assembly.
After the end of her mandate in the People's Chamber in 1954, Bäuml became a political employee in January 1955, later deputy head of department at the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED and was editor of the magazine Neuer Weg . In November 1973, Bäuml went into early retirement for health reasons . After the reunification she belonged to the PDS .
Her father Johann Bäuml was a KPD functionary, city councilor from 1930 to 1933 and, after 1945, city councilor in Plauen. A street in Plauen was named after him during the GDR era. Since April 1956 she was married to Kurt Zahn.
Awards
- 1966 Clara Zetkin Medal
- 1971 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1980 in silver
literature
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 .
- Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan et al. (Ed.): The parties and organizations of the GDR. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0 .
- Mario Niemann : Bäuml, Luise . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Mario Niemann, Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , pp. 95f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Bäuml's obituary notice in Neues Deutschland on May 30, 1974
- ^ New Germany , March 8, 1966
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1971, p. 9
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 7, 1980
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zahn, Luise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bäuml, Luise (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), MdL Saxony, member of the People's Chamber of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plauen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 2004 |