Herta Geffke

Herta Geffke (married name, Herta Kaasch: 19 August 1893 – 29 December 1974) was a German activist and politician (KPD, SED) who resisted Nazism.[1] After 1945 she became a member of the Central Party Control Commission of the SED (Zentrale Parteikontrollkommission / ZPKK) in the Soviet occupation zone (from 1949 the German Democratic Republic), identified as a "true Stalinist" and feared on account of her interrogation methods.[2]

  1. ^ Barth, Bernd-Rainer; Müller-Enbergs, Helmut. "Geffke, Herta * 19.8.1893, † 29.12.1974 SED-Funktionärin". Wer war wer in der DDR? (in German). Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  2. ^ Danzer, Doris (2012). Zwischen Vertrauen und Verrat: deutschsprachige kommunistische Intellektuelle und ihre sozialen Beziehungen (1918-1960) (in German). V&R unipress GmbH. pp. 460–461. ISBN 978-3-89971-939-0.