Meta Preuss

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Meta Preuß (also Preuß-Totzki , nee Kroll ; born January 18, 1903 in Danzig ; † December 25, 1981 ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ). She was a member of the People's Day of the Free City of Danzig .

Life

Meta Kroll, daughter of a working-class family, worked as a pharmacy assistant in Berlin from 1917 . In May 1924 she married Hermann Totzki (1894–1965) and moved with him back to her native city of Danzig. Here she joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1927 and from 1928 headed the Red Women's and Girls' Union . In 1929 she became a member of the KPD district leadership in Danzig and the district's women's leader. On November 16, 1930 she was elected to the People's Day in Gdansk. The KPD received 10.2% of the vote in these elections and entered the People's Day with seven members. Alongside Anton Plenikowski and Helene Kreft , Meta Totzki was one of the most famous KPD functionaries in Danzig. In June 1931 she attended a course at the Reichsparteischule of the KPD "Rosa Luxemburg" in Fichtenau near Berlin.

From the end of 1932 Meta Totzki worked as an instructor in Danzig. She was arrested on April 2, 1934 and sentenced to three years in prison by the Danzig Circuit Court "for illegal political activity". At the meeting of the People's Day on May 2, 1934, parliament gave its approval to the execution of sentences against Meta Totzki and against Felix Raschke , another communist member of parliament.

A good three weeks later, on May 26, 1934, Police President Hellmut Froböß issued an order according to which the Communist Party and its subsidiary organizations were dissolved. The Senate Rauschning ( NSDAP ) justified this step with the fact that in criminal proceedings against senior officials of the Danzig KPD the fact of gun possession was established. The party members intended to "use these weapons in the fight against government orders". Another reason for the ban on the Gdańsk KP were their activities in the production and introduction of “illegal pamphlets”, which called for disobedience to official orders.

In November 1935 Meta Totzki was given an amnesty . She then worked as an advertiser for a newspaper. In June 1936 she fled to Warsaw , where she was temporarily employed by the Soviet embassy . In September 1938 she emigrated to Sweden and belonged to the KPD party group there.

At the beginning of June 1946 she returned to Germany with her second husband, Karl Preuss (1904–1981), whom she married in exile in Sweden. Meta Preuss joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and became head of social welfare in the Berlin-Mitte district office . In March 1947 Preuss was one of the founders of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime in the Sangerhausen District and was elected its secretary. Later she was chairman of the SED's Sangerhausen branch. In 1949 she fell seriously ill and was retired the following year.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Gippert: Childhood and Youth in Danzig 1920 to 1945. Identity formation in the socialist and conservative milieu . Klartext, Essen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89861-388-0 , p. 175.
  2. ^ Marek Andrzejewski: Opposition and Resistance in Danzig 1933-1939 . Dietz, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-8012-4054-1 , p. 73.
  3. ↑ Ibid.
  4. ↑ Remembering and Commemoration. A Sangerhausen initiative . Leaflet No. 5 (September 2010) ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.1 MB), p. 2. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erinnern-und-gedenken.de
personal data
SURNAME Preuss, Meta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Totzki, Meta; Kroll, Meta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1981