Ursula Czeczot

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Ursula Czeczot (born in Hessen ; * March 20, 1917 in Lodz ; † February 8, 1980 in Bautzen ) was a German art scholar and long-time director of the Meissen Albrechtsburg . She was a member of the GDR CDU and from 1967 to 1980 a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Ursula Czeczot was born in Lodz on March 20, 1917, the daughter of a self-employed German businessman. In 1936, she passed the Abitur at a humanistic girls' high school . She then studied art history , archeology and museology at the Warsaw University until the German occupation in September 1939 , during which time she worked as an intern at the Warsaw National Museum from 1937 to 1939 . At the beginning of her studies she met Arnold Czeczot from Poland, whom she married in January 1939. A daughter was born in 1941. Shortly after the occupation of Poland, Czeczot's husband went underground; he died in the resistance fight against the German occupiers in 1942. In the same year Ursula Czeczot got a job as an assistant at the Municipal Museum in her hometown of Lodz.

After the end of the Second World War , Czeczot had to flee Poland as a German. She found refuge with relatives in Borna, Saxony, and got a job in 1948, first with the Borna City Council, and later with the Borna District Council in the culture department until 1954. In 1948 she became a member of the CDU and the Free German Trade Union Federation , in 1950 of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany . Because of her qualifications, Czeczot seized the opportunity in November 1954 and moved to the previously neglected and orphaned Albrechtsburg in Meissen, where she initially worked officially as scientific director until 1970, then as director. Subsequently, Czeczot had a decisive influence on the exhibition at the Albrechtsburg and headed the world-famous sight until he retired in 1978. In the early years, the widowed art scholar was involved in party politics in addition to her work at the Albrechtsburg at local and district level. From 1954 to 1956 she was city councilor in Meißen, from 1956 to 1960 a member of the Meißen district committee and from 1961 to 1970 of the Dresden district committee of the CDU. From 1965 to 1970 she was also a member of the Meissen district council.

In 1967 she was elected for the first time as a member of the People's Chamber for her party. She kept this mandate until her death. From 1967 to 1971 she was a member of the People's Chamber Committee for Culture and from 1971 to 1976 of the Committee for Citizens' Submissions.

Ursula Czeczot died at the age of 62 and was buried in the Bautzen divers cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

  • Late Gothic works of art in the Albrechtsburg Castle in Meißen . In: Art museums of the German Democratic Republic. Communications and reports , 2 (1959), pp. 7-9.
  • Old Saxon sculptures in the Albrechtsburg in Meißen . Leipzig 1963.
  • The Meissen Albrechtsburg. Groundbreaking construction work at the turn of the Middle Ages to the modern age . Leipzig 1975.
  • Albrechtsburg Castle in Meissen. Period of construction 1471–1520 . 28th edition. Meissen 1984.

Awards

literature

  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 6th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1972, p. 220.
  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 7th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1977, p. 196.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Calendar sheet for Ursula Czeczot . In: Neue Zeit , March 20, 1987, p. 4.
  2. ^ Farewell to Ursula Czeczot . In: Neue Zeit , February 15, 1980, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Czeczot, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hessen, Ursula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Lodz
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1980
Place of death Bautzen