Gertrud Morgner

Gertrud Morgner
Born
Gertrud Müller

8 August 1887
Gera, Principality of Reuss-Gera, German Empire
Died20 July 1978
Berlin, East Germany
OccupationPolitical activist exiled in Kazakhstan
Political partySPD
Spartacus League
KPD
CPSU
SED
SpouseEdwin Morgner
ChildrenHildegard "Hilde" Morgner / Guddorf (1907-1980)

Gertrud Morgner (born Gertrud Müller: 8 August 1887 – 20 July 1978) was a German politician and, especially as a young woman, women's rights campaigner.[1] She was a co-founder of the Jena branch of the Communist Party.

In 1932 she emigrated with her husband to the Soviet Union.[2] Her husband was arrested in 1941; the circumstances of his death remain unknown.[3] Gertrud was refused permission to leave the Soviet Union till 1954, when she returned to what had by this time become the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) where she found she had acquired a certain official celebrity, honoured as a "[Communist] party veteran".[4]

  1. ^ Hermann Weber; Andreas Herbst. "Morgner, Gertrud * 8.8.1887, † 20.7.1978". Handbuch der Deutschen Kommunisten. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  2. ^ Gottfried Hamacher (2005). Morgner, Gertrud, geb. Müller, 8.8.1887 (Gera) – 20.7.1978 (PDF). Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin & Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin. p. 146. ISBN 3-320-02941-X. Retrieved 18 January 2017. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Hermann Weber; Andreas Herbst. "Morgner, Edwin * 1.11.1884, † 31.1.1943". Handbuch der Deutschen Kommunisten. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  4. ^ Beatrice Osdrowski (compiler). "Gertrud Morgner: Politikerin, Frauenrechtlerin" (PDF). Frauennamen für Jenas Straßen. Frauenzentrum 'Towanda' Jena, e.V. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.