Marie Ahlers

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Marie Ahlers (born Marie Albrecht , married Marie Taubenheim ; born April 4, 1898 in Siersleben , † August 17, 1968 in East Berlin ) was a German politician. Ahlers was a member of the Reichstag for the KPD in the Weimar Republic and an SED functionary.

Life

Ahlers was the daughter of a miner and was born as Marie Albrecht in the Mansfeld Mountains . She attended elementary school , was a farm worker and seamstress. In 1917 she married Hermann Ahlers.

In 1918 she became a member of the USPD , the following year of the SAJ and in 1920 a member of the KJVD and KPD . From the founding of the women's section of the Red Front Fighters ' Union in 1925 ( Red Women and Girls' Union, RFMB), she was a member of its Reich leadership. From 1929 to 1933 she was a city ​​councilor in Eisleben and a member of the extended women's secretariat of the Central Committee of the KPD . Between 1930 and 1933 she was a member of the Reichstag . After the KPD was banned in 1933, she was persecuted for high treason and treason (illegal KPD work) and temporarily lived in illegality.

In 1945/46 she worked in Berlin-Tegel in the party administration of the KPD and was head of the women's committee. In 1946, with the forced unification of the SPD and KPD, she became a member of the SED and a member of the SED district leadership in Niederbarnim . From 1948 to 1953 she was 2nd chairwoman of the central board (ZV) of the IG Agriculture and Forestry and thus, as a representative of one of the 14 individual trade unions, a member of the governing body of the GDR trade union FDGB . From 1958 to 1963 she was a member of the Central Revision Commission of the SED .

From 1930 Marie Ahlers lived with Gerhard Taubenheim (1891–1973), whom she married in 1945 and whose name she adopted. Documents from her political life can be found under Marie Taubenheim in the Federal Archives .

Marie Taubenheim died at the age of 70 and was buried in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery.

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Individual evidence

  1. Remembrance Days 2018 (accessed on October 12, 2018).