Berta Daniel

Berta Daniel
Born
Berta Dick

20 November 1896
Ulm, Württemberg, Germany
Died7 April 1981
East Berlin, German Democratic Republic
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Photographer
Political activist
Agent and Encryption specialist (Comintern)
Political partyKPD
SED
SpouseRichard Daniel (1891-1942)
ChildrenLore Rutz (1920-2010)
Parent(s)Robert Dick (1851-1928)
Wilhelmine
AwardsPatriotic Order of Merit

Berta Daniel (born Berta Dick: 20 November 1896 – 7 April 1981) was a German photographer and political activist (KPD).[1]

During the 1920s and 1930s, she worked for the illegal News Service of the Communist Party in Germany and for the Comintern as an "agent". In 1937, while in Moscow, she fell victim to the Stalin purges and was sentenced to eight years (subsequently increased) detention in a camp. She survived, but it was only in 1957 that she was rehabilitated and able to return to what had by now become the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic.[2]

  1. ^ Wladislaw Hedeler; Ingeborg Münz-Koenen (2013). Berta Daniel, geb. Dick (1896-1981). Lukas Verlag. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-3-86732-177-8. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Hermann Weber; Andreas Herbst. "Daniel, Berta * 20.11.1896, † 7.4.1981". Handbuch der Deutschen Kommunisten. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 26 November 2016.