Roberta Gropper addressing the Volkskammer
May, 1951
Roberta Gropper (16 August 1897 - 1 February 1993) was a German Communist political activist who became a member of the Reichstag (national parliament) in 1930.[1] In 1934 she fled to the Soviet Union where she fell victim to party factionalism and spent more than three years in a concentration camp: this was followed by a Siberian exile. She was able to return to Berlin in 1947 and became a mainstream politician in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).[2][3]
- ^ "Kommunistische Partei". Reichstags-Handbuch. Source includes a (rather unflattering) photo-portrait of Roberta Gropper. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. 1930. p. 572. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
- ^ "Gropper, Roberta * 16.8.1897, † 1.2.1993". Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
- ^ Eberhard Schröder. "Footnote 16 Roberta Gropper, geb. am ..." (PDF). Diskussion zum Thema "Antifascusmus und Stalinismus" Zensl Mühsams Rückkehr unerwünscht. Die Linkspartei PDS, Berlin. p. 47. Retrieved 10 June 2016.