Margarete Hoffmann

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Margarete Hoffmann , b. Wendt, (* August 8, 1911 ; † 1973 ) was a German archivist who made lasting merits by building the archives for DFD and SED in the early years of the GDR .

Life

Margarete Hoffmann comes from a working-class family. In 1930 she joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany and in 1945 became a member of the Communist Party of Germany ( SED from 1946 ).

After the Second World War, Margarete Hoffmann worked as an editor in the editorial office of the SED organ New Germany . In 1949 she was commissioned to set up an archive for the federal board of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD), which she also managed with a lot of initiative.

Due to her successful work as an archivist, she was brought in 1953 to the Institute for Marxism-Leninism, founded in 1949 at the Central Committee of the SED , in order to take an active part in the development of the Central Party Archive. In doing so, she achieved particular merits by cataloging the older historical documents of the KPD from the years before 1945.

In a distance learning course at the 1st course at the Franz Mehring School of Archives in Potsdam , Margarete Hoffmann graduated as a state-certified archivist. As the first trained archivist at the SED party archive, she achieved particular importance through her excellent work.

In the Federal Archives are still used today research tools that have been created by Margaret Hoffmann.

Awards

literature

  • Heinz Voßke : Biographical notes on deserved archivists. Margarete Hoffmann. Archvarin in the Central Party Archives department of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED . In: Archivmitteilungen , 19, 1969, No. 4, pp. 163-164.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Archives: Funerals and Honors for Party Veterans
  2. ↑ Heinz Voßke: Biographical notes on deserved archivists. Margarete Hoffmann. Archvarin in the Central Party Archives department of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED . In: Archive Messages , 19, 1969, No. 4, p. 164
  3. ^ Finding aid German Communists in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
  4. ↑ Finding aid Lassalle'scher General German Workers' Association
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1911
DATE OF DEATH 1973