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Ruth Stolz (born March 25, 1904 in Hamburg ; died July 8, 1981 in Berlin ) was a German communist and editor .

Life

Ruth Stolz studied dentistry. In 1929 she joined the KPD . She was secretary in the KPD district leadership on the waterfront. After the seizure of power by the Nazis , she worked from 1933 to 1935 in the anti-fascist resistance . In 1935 she emigrated to France and then to the USSR . There she worked from 1935 to 1941 for the Communist International , in the publishing house for foreign-language literature and in the editorial team of the newspaper "Neue Zeit", Moscow . After the attack by the Nazi regime on the USSR, she joined the Red Army in 1943 as a simple Red Army soldier and took part in the German-Soviet War until the liberation of Berlin in 1945, in which she already took part as a captain and political officer .

Since 1950 she tried to return to Germany. Ludwig Rubiner supported her proposal. In January 1954, the SED secretariat made the decision to recall Comrade Ruth Stolz from the Soviet Union.

From 1954 she worked in the Lenin department and in the Marx-Engels department of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED in Berlin on the edition of the Marx-Engels works . She reported on her work on the edition of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' editions at a conference at her institute in 1977. In 1972 she retired.

The Central Committee of the SED congratulated Comrade Ruth Stolz on her 65th and 75th birthday . In 1969 she published the first selection of Paul Lafargue's writings in German. From 1972 to 1981 she worked on a voluntary basis in the central management of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters in the GDR . In 1981 Ruth Stolz was buried in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery. On her tombstone it only says: “Ruth Stolz 25 March 1904 - 8 July 1981”.

Honors

USSR

GDR

Works

  • One of the most gifted and thorough - for Paul Lafargue's 125th birthday . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement . Berlin 1967, No. 1, pp. 125-132.
  • Karl Marx. How I raised my son-in-law . Compiled and initiated. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1969.
  • Diary of the Paris Commune. Karl Marx Friedrich Engels . Compiled and introduced by Erich Kundel, Hans-Dieter Kruse, Ruth Stolz, Evelin Barth. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1971.
  • Thoughts on working on the "blue volumes" . In: Contributions to the history of Marx / Engels research and edition in the Soviet Union and the GDR. Minutes of the meeting of the Scientific Council for Marx / Engels Research in the GDR on September 15, 1977 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 92-96.

Marx-Engels Works

  • “Marx-Engels Works.” Volume 9. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1960.
  • Marx-Engels Works . Volume 14. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1961.
  • Marx-Engels Works . Volume 17. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1962.
  • Marx-Engels Works . Volume 28. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1963.
  • Marx-Engels Works . Volume 31. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1965.
  • Marx-Engels Works . Volume 36.Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1967.
  • Marx-Engels Works . Volume 39.Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1968.

literature

  • [Obituary]. In: Neues Deutschland from July 17, 1981.
  • Ruth pride . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research 11, Berlin 1982, pp. 259-260. Digitized
  • Stolz, Ruth : In: Carl-Erich Vollgraf, Richard Sperl and Rolf Hecker (eds.): The Marx-Engels editions of works in the USSR and GDR (1945–1968) (= contributions to Marx-Engels research . New series. Special volume 5). Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-88619-691-7 , pp. 516-517.
  • Renate Merkel-Melis : Additions to Bernhard Dohm and Ruth Stolz . In: ibid, p. 301. with photographs p. 187 and p. 285.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ catalog. Army Museum of the German Democratic Republic 1917–1945 , p. 93.
  2. ↑ Protocol No. 3/54. Meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED on January 27, 1954. (Signature of the Federal Archives DY 30 / J IV 2/3/415.)
  3. ^ "Ruth Stolz did not come from emigration to the Marx-Engels department, but first to the Lenin department." (Renate Merkel-Melis: additions to Bernhard Dohm and Ruth Stolz .)
  4. ↑ Thoughts on working on the “blue volumes” .
  5. ^ New Germany of March 24, 1969 and March 24, 1979.
  6. ↑ Karl Marx. How I raised my son-in-law .
  7. ↑ catalog. Army Museum of the German Democratic Republic 1917–1945 , p. 93.
  8. ^ Contributions to Marx-Engels research 11.
  9. ↑ line of work Edition: Ludwig Arnold . Editorial work: Bruno Retzlaff-Kresse, Charlotte Fischer, Käte Schwank and Ruth Stolz. Responsible for the editorial: Walter Schulz.
  10. ↑ line of work Edition: Ludwig Arnold. Editorial work: Bruno Retzlaff-Kresse, Ruth Stolz and Charlotte Fischer. Responsible for the editing: Walter Schulz, Richard Sperl.
  11. ↑ line of work Edition: Ludwig Arnold. Editorial work: Ruth Stolz, Rosi Rudlich, Heinz Ruschinski. Responsible for the editing: Walter Schulz, Richard Sperl.
  12. ↑ line of work Edition: Horst Merbach, Bernhard Dohm. Editorial work: Ruth Stolz, Heinz Ruschinski Responsible for editing: Walter Schulz, Richard Sperl.
  13. ↑ Head of edition work: Horst Merbach. Editorial work: Ruth Stolz, Heidi Wolf, Renate Merkel . Responsible for the editorial: Walter Schulz.
  14. ↑ line of work Edition: Rolf Dlubek , Erich Kundel, Richard Sperl. Editorial work: Werner Ettelt, Ruth Stolz, Käte Heidenreich, Rosie Rudlich, Heidi Wolf. Responsible for the editorial: Walter Schulz.
  15. ↑ line of work Edition: Rolf Dlubek, Erich Kundel, Richard Sperl. Editorial work: Hans Dieter Krause, Ruth Stolz, Käte Heidenreich, Brigitte Rieck, Rosie Rudlich, Irma Baude, Inge Koch, Babara Schult, Gisela Szillat, Walter Schulz, Heinz Ruschinski, Werner Ettelt, Jutta Nesler, Horst Borusiak, Ingrid Donner, Helga Neumann, Elmar Julier, Manfred Müller, Editha Nagl, Heidi Wolf.
personal data
SURNAME Proud, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1981
Place of death Berlin