Thea Saefkow

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Thea Saefkow , born as Theodora Brey (born November 11, 1910 in Gelsenkirchen ; † March 17, 1990 in Berlin ) (married Thea Beling), was a German resistance fighter in the Resistance .

Life

The daughter of a miner completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked as a cashier and detacheuse (specialist in chemical stain removal). In 1927 she became a member of the KJVD and in 1930 the KPD . In 1932 she worked for the RGO's Ruhr district management .

In December 1932 she married Anton Saefkow . Because of her participation in the anti-fascist resistance struggle , she was imprisoned in Hamburg from March to July 1933 and October / November 1933. In 1935 she emigrated via Prague to the Soviet Union, where she attended the Comintern's International Lenin School from November 1935 to November 1937 . After graduating, she was sent to Paris together with Irene Wosikowski and Luise Kraushaar to support the KPD foreign leadership West , where she worked for the Deutsche Volks-Zeitung . Her marriage to Anton Saefkow was divorced in 1939.

In May 1940 she was interned by the French in Camp de Gurs . Together with her comrades Luise Kraushaar and Irene Wosikowski, she managed to escape. She became an employee of the liaison service for the illegal Wehrmacht work of the Resistance in the movement Free Germany for the West (CALPO) and headed a resistance group of occupation soldiers of the Wehrmacht with the battle name Mado with Kurt Hälker , Hans Heisel , Arthur Eberhard and others who provided important military information collected for the Allies. In August 1944 she took part in the liberation of Paris in the Lorient front section and then became a close associate of the General Secretary of the Free Germany Movement in France, Harald Hauser .

In 1945 she returned to Germany and initially became a member of the Lower Rhine KPD district leadership and editor of the “Volkszeitung” in Dortmund. In 1948 she moved to the Soviet Zone and married Walter Beling in 1950 . She became a member of the SED and headed the education department of DEFA . In 1954 she was appointed deputy director of the Academy of Film Arts and was a member of the staff of the chairman of the State Committee for Film in the GDR. From 1955 she was head of department in the main film administration of the GDR Ministry of Culture.

As a working-class veteran in Berlin, she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1967. Your urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried, where Walter Beling is buried.

literature

  • Dora Schaul : Resistance. Memories of German anti-fascists. Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1973 / Röderberg-Verlag: Frankfurt 1975
  • Karlheinz Pech : On the side of the Resistance. The "Free Germany" movement for the West in France (1943–1945) Military publisher of the GDR: Berlin 1987

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Resistant sous l'uniforme de la Kriegsmarine
  2. ↑ High awards . In: Neues Deutschland , June 29, 1967, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Saefkow, Thea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mado; Saefkow-Beling, Thea; Beling, Thea; Brey, Theodora (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1990
Place of death Berlin