Margarete Jung

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Margarete Jung (born May 12, 1898 ; † November 30, 1979 in East Berlin ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism , a prisoner in the Ravensbrück concentration camp , member of the main committee of the victims of fascism and a member of the federal executive committee of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD ).

Life

Jung joined the Spartakusbund in 1918 and became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1919 . In the time of the Weimar Republic , she was committed to the rise of National Socialism .

After power was transferred to the NSDAP in 1933, it continued its anti-fascist work illegally . In 1936 she was ver liable and 1937 by the People's Court to five years imprisonment convicted of it in the penitentiaries of Jawor and Waldheim spent. In 1942 she was transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, she worked on the main committee of the victims of fascism from 1945 to 1947. In 1946 she joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), became a member of the SED district committee Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg and the SED district leadership in Berlin. On October 27, 1951, she was appointed to the central executive committee of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) in the GDR. She also belonged to the federal executive committee of the DFD and was its representative in the committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters .

literature

  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 571

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary , In: Neues Deutschland , December 18, 1979, p. 8

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personal data
SURNAME Young, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION socialist politician (SED) and DFD functionary
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1898
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1979
Place of death East Berlin