Marta Gäbler
Marta Gäbler , b. Marta Przygoda (born September 18, 1900 in Stęszyce near Zduńska Wola , Congress Poland , † January 25, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German communist and a functionary of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany . She represented this mass organization as a member of the German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber .
Life
Marta Przygoda was born the daughter of a weaver. In 1907 the family moved to Guben in Niederlausitz , where Przygoda attended elementary school until 1915. She then worked briefly as a maid. In the same year she found a job as a saleswoman in Berlin, which she had to give up in 1916. This was followed by a service assignment in the Guben hospital. After the end of the war, Marta Przygoda obviously found a job in a Jena hospital thanks to her medical knowledge , because this activity is recorded for 1922. In this post-war period she got to know the communist youth functionary Fritz Gäbler , who from 1922 was Thuringian state chairman of the KJVD for some time . Martha Gäbler herself joined the youth association in 1921 and the KPD in 1923. In 1924 Fritz Gäbler and Marta Przygoda married. Subsequently, her next decades of life were mainly shaped by the places where her husband worked.
Since Fritz Gäbler got a job as an editor at the Hamburger Volkszeitung in Hamburg in 1924 , Marta Gäbler lived in Hamburg until 1927. However, she lived there alone from March 1926 to February 1927, as her husband was serving a prison sentence for preparing for high treason. The couple then moved back to Thuringia, where Fritz Gäbler initially worked as a journalist in Erfurt and later in Jena . Between November 1929 and April 1931 Marta Gäbler lived again without her husband, who was imprisoned again during this time. After that, the couple lived on Gäbler's diet, which he received as a member of the Thuringian state parliament until February 1933. Subsequently, Fritz Gäbler was arrested again while his wife initially carried out illegal party activities in the Gera area. In November 1933 Martha Gäbler was arrested and taken into protective custody. She was initially imprisoned in the Bad Sulza concentration camp , one of the concentration camps that were set up as so-called wild concentration camps in 1933/34 and were often directly subordinate to the SA. In 1934 Martha Gäbler was officially charged and sentenced to two years and 4 months in prison, which she served in the Gräfentonna prison. After her release in 1936, she moved to Berlin-Bohnsdorf , where she earned her living, mainly working in the kitchen in restaurants, until the end of the war in 1945. Her husband Fritz Gäbler had been imprisoned in Brandenburg-Görden prison since August 1935 and was only released in April 1945 with the liberation by the Red Army.
After Fritz Gäbler worked as a journalist for some time after his liberation in Berlin, the couple moved to their old home in Erfurt in September 1945, where Fritz Gäbler took over the post of 1st secretary of the joint KPD district leadership for Erfurt and the district of Weißensee and Marta Gäbler city councilor for social affairs of the city of Erfurt became. While her husband later made a career in the Thuringian state government, Marta Gäbler was mainly involved in the DFD, founded in 1947, in addition to her professional activity . At the Thuringian DFD state congress in early March 1948 she was elected Thuringian DFD state chairwoman and at the same time delegated to the 2nd German People's Congress. There she was elected to the 1st German People's Council in mid-March 1948 as a DFD representative . Gäbler also represented the DFD in the 2nd German People's Council and in the Provisional People's Chamber until October 1950 as a member.
After Fritz Gäbler began working for the German Economic Commission in May 1949 , the Gäbler couple moved to Berlin, where Marta Gäbler worked briefly as a member of the DFD federal executive board. She then found a job as a personnel manager at the Berlin Chamber of Technology . Her last job was until 1953 as a management officer in the Office for Weights and Measures of the GDR. Due to health problems, she retired from work in 1956 and from then on lived as a pensioner in Berlin-Oberschöneweide .
Marta Gäbler died after a long and serious illness, meanwhile divorced from her husband, on January 25, 1970 in Berlin. She was buried in Pergolenweg in the Berlin-Friedrichsfelde cemetery.
Honors
- 1966 Clara Zetkin Medal
- 1966 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
swell
- Federal archive inventory DA1 1360
- Bundesarchiv card file resistance fighters LAB C Rep. 118-01, No. 3016 (biographical information)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gäbler, Marta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Przygoda, Marta (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DFD), MdV |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stęszyce near Zduńska Wola , Congress Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1970 |
| Place of death | Berlin |