Ursula Wohlenberg

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Ursula Wohlenberg (born January 16, 1913 in Chicago ; † December 5, 1995 ) was a German journalist and politician . From 1953 to 1962 she was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper “ Die Frau von heute ” and from 1954 to 1958 a member of the Berlin city council .

Life

Wohlenberg, daughter of an employee, came from the USA . She attended elementary school and learned the profession of kindergarten teacher and daycare worker. During the Weimar Republic she belonged to the Communist Party Opposition (KPO) from 1932 . From 1933 she did illegal resistance work against National Socialism .

After the Second World War , she joined the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (DFD) and became a consultant for pre-school education. From 1946 she worked for the press in the Soviet occupation zone . In 1946 she became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1949 to 1952 she was press officer for the SED state leadership in Saxony-Anhalt and at times personal advisor to SED state chairman Bernard Koenen . From 1952 to 1953 she acted as deputy editor-in-chief of the SED district newspaper "Freiheit" . As the successor to Ilse Reinicke, she was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper “Die Frau von heute” from 1953 to 1962. From 1954 to 1958 she was a member of the DFD parliamentary group of the Berlin city council. She was a member of the federal executive committee from 1954 to 1987 and from 1960 to 1964 a member of the presidium and secretariat of the federal executive committee of the DFD.

From December 1961 to 1967 she was a member of the Presidium of the Central Board of the Association of Journalists of the GDR (VDJ). She was then from 1964 to 1968 deputy editor-in-chief of the Erfurt SED district newspaper “Das Volk” and from September 1968 to December 1972 deputy editor-in-chief of the organ of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of the GDR “Socialist Democracy”. She then worked as an employee of the office of the GDR Council of Ministers and as a lecturer at the GDR State Publishing House.

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (ed.): SBZ-Biographie , Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 389.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 358.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 1022 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Andreas Herbst , Christine Krauss, Daniel Küchenmeister (eds.): The parties and organizations of the GDR: A manual, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0 , p. 1126.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Hirschinger: "Gestapo Agents, Trotskyists, Traitors". Communist party purges in Saxony-Anhalt 1918-1953 , p. 330.
personal data
SURNAME Wohlenberg, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1995