Ursula Friedrich (politician)

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Ursula Friedrich (1969)

Ursula Friedrich , b. Weißhuhn (born March 29, 1923 in Dresden ; † December 7, 1978 there ) was a German party functionary of the GDR CDU , editor and member of the People's Chamber .

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Ursula Friedrich was the daughter of an export merchant in Dresden. After elementary school and high school, she attended the Vocational Education Institute and the Technical University of Dresden from 1943 to 1945 .

After the Second World War she worked from 1945 to 1950 as a trade teacher in Dresden and from 1950 to 1956 as a lecturer in social sciences at the Pedagogical School in Dresden. From 1951 to 1954 she studied in distance learning Constitutional and Administrative Law at the German Academy of Law and Political Science "Walter Ulbricht" with the degree as a lawyer. From 1956 to 1958 she was a lecturer at the Medical School in Dresden.

Since 1946 a member of the CDU, from 1950 she was a member of the CDU state committee in Saxony and also the main committee of the CDU. From 1958 to 1961 she acted simultaneously as editor-in-chief of the Dresden CDU newspaper Die Union and the Potsdamer Märkische Union . She belonged to the People's Chamber in the 1st , 2nd and 3rd electoral periods from 1950 to 1963. From January 1959 she was deputy chairwoman of the committee for popular education. For health reasons, she was a housewife from 1961 to 1965 and from 1965 worked as deputy publishing director at Union-Verlag in Berlin.

Since 1950 she belonged to the Democratic Women's Association of Germany and was in December 1957 on the VI. Deputy Federal Chairwoman of the DFD Federal Congress.

In 1963 she was at the head of the forces organized by the SED, which protested against the silence resolution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony , suggested by Regional Bishop Gottfried Noth and decided by the synod .

Ursula Friedrich had been married since 1952 and had two sons. Pastor Walter Feurich characterized her "as a person who (was) connected to the gospel from youth, understood his faith as an obligation for a lively commitment in the political and social sphere and used his great gifts with wisdom and patience for others."

Awards

literature

  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 3rd electoral period, Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 274.
  • Friedrich, Ursula. In: Who is who? , Berlin 1965, p. 77.
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 92.
  • Rita Pawlowski: Our women stand by their husbands. Women in the People's Chamber of the GDR 1950–1989. A biographical manual. trafo, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-652-1

Web links

Commons : Ursula Friedrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rita Pawlowski: Our women stand by their husbands. Women in the People's Chamber of the GDR 1950–1989. A biographical manual. trafo, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-652-1 , p. 73
  2. ^ Committee for Popular Education constituted . In: Neue Zeit, Sa. January 3, 1959, p. 2.
  3. ^ Merrilyn Thomas: Communing with the enemy: covert operations, Christianity and Cold War politics in Britain and the GDR. Frankfurt etc .: Peter Lang 2005 ISBN 978-3-03910-192-4 , p. 144
  4. ↑ A conversation with Ursula Friedrich . In: Neue Zeit , March 8, 1958, p. 3.
  5. ^ Neue Zeit , December 14, 1978, p. 2
  6. ↑ Honoring deserving union friends . In: Neue Zeit, June 27, 1951, p. 2.
  7. ^ Neue Zeit, October 2, 1969, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White Chicken, Ursula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdV, editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1978
Place of death Dresden