Marie Hartung

Marie Hartung (born January 17, 1884 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † April 17, 1971 ) was a German politician ( SPD , USPD , SED ).

Marie Hartung was the daughter of a worker. After elementary school, she trained as a tailor and worked in the profession she had learned.

In 1905 she became a member of the SAJ , in 1906 in the workers' education association and in 1908 in the SPD. Between 1908 and 1933 she was an employee of the consumer association in Königsberg. She was the managing director or district secretary of the AWO Königsberg. In 1911 she was elected the women’s confidante in Königsberg. Between 1919 and 1922 she was a member of the USPD. For this she was elected as a city councilor in Königsberg and in the provincial parliament of the province of East Prussia . In 1923 she switched back to the SPD. In the SPD she was a member of the board of the SPD Königsberg and the district association of East Prussia. Until 1933 she was still city councilor in Königsberg and a member of the provincial parliament and the provincial committee for the SPD.

With the seizure of power by the National Socialists could not continue their political work and was unemployed for the 1933rd The National Socialists placed them under police supervision. She was connected to Gustav Bludau's resistance group . From 1939 to 1945 she was an employee in the art collections of the city of Königsberg. In 1944 she was evacuated to Blankenburg (Harz) . In 1945 she became a women's officer and head of the resettlement office in the Blankenburg district office in the SBZ . She became a member of the SED and moved to Berlin in 1946, where she became a consultant in the Labor and Social Welfare Department of the SED. From 1947 to the beginning of 1949, she was the successor to Maria Weiterer as a department head in the women's secretariat of the SED party executive. Then she was again a consultant in the Labor and Social Welfare Department before she was a librarian and employee in the archive of the Central Committee of the SED from 1955 to 1958.

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• Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, 2018, p. 22, digitized
• Biographical information from the handbook "Who was who in the GDR?" On the website of the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship