Roberta Gropper

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Roberta Gropper, 1951

Roberta Gropper (born August 16, 1897 in Memmingen , † February 1, 1993 in Berlin ) was a politician of the KPD and the SED .

The tobacco worker was a member of the Ulm Workers' Council in November 1918 . As a member of the Reichstag, she represented her constituency in Berlin from 1930 to 1933. She later emigrated to France and then to the Soviet Union , where she was imprisoned from 1937. In 1940 she met Margarete Buber-Neumann in Moscow prison . In 1947 she returned to Berlin. She was a member of the People's Chamber from 1950 to 1981, secretary of the FDGB district executive committee for Greater Berlin and chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Federation (DFD) in Berlin.

literature

  • Luise Dornemann : All the days of her life: female figures from two centuries. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-320-01068-9 , pp. 195-302.
  • Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists . Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed August 24, 2020]).
  • Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten: Roberta Gropper. Exile as repressed and tabooed double persecution. In: Unionists in the Resistance. Edited by Siegfried Mielke , Klartext, Essen 2008, pp. 154–161.

Web links

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