Renate Drucker

Renate Drucker

Renate Drucker (11 July 1917 – 23 October 2009) was a German archivist.[1][2] She was in charge of the university archives at Leipzig University for 27 years between 1950 and 1977.[3]

She was qualified as a philologist and was also for many years an officer of the Liberal Democratic Party of (East) Germany ("Liberal-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands" / LDPD), one of several "bloc parties" controlled by the ruling East German Socialist Unity Party ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" / SED) which were intended to broaden the régime's constitutional legitimacy.[4]

  1. ^ Jens Blecher (2014). "Biografien historischer Frauenpersönlichkeiten: Wissenschaft ... Renate Drucker". Stadt Leipzig, Der Oberbürgermeister, Referat Kommunikation. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  2. ^ Jens Blecher; Gerald Wiemers. "Renate Drucker †, Geb. 11. 7. 1917 Leipzig, Gest. 23. 10. 2009 Leipzig" (PDF). Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf & Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare e.V., Fulda. pp. 130–131. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Prof. Dr. phil. Renate Margarethe Drucker". catalogus professorum lipsiensium. Universität Leipzig, Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  4. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Drucker, Renate * 11.7.1917 LDPD-Funktionärin". Wer war wer in der DDR?. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 28 December 2016.