Chairwoman of the Democratic Women's League of Germany
In office 1949 – September 1953
Preceded by
Emmy Damerius-Koenen
Succeeded by
Ilse Thiele
Personal details
Born
Elli Paula Schmidt
9 August 1908 Berlin-Wedding, Germany
Died
30 July 1980 Berlin, East Germany
Political party
KPD SED
Spouse
Anton Ackermann (1905–1973)
Children
1. Marianne 2. Peter
Occupation
Political activist, Resistance activist, politician
Elli Paula Schmidt (9 August 1908 – 30 July 1980) was a German communist political activist with links to Moscow, where as a young woman she spent most of the war years. She returned in 1945 to what later (in 1949) became the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) where she pursued a successful political career till her fall from grace: that came as part of a wider clear out of comrades critical of the national leadership in the aftermath of the 1953 uprising. She was formally rehabilitated on 29 July 1956, but never returned to mainstream politics.[1]
In 1948 Schmidt became the first head of the Democratic Women's League ("Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands" / DFD), one of several government backed mass organisations included in the highly centralised power structure then being developed for the country. Between 1950 and 1954 she was a member of the Central Committee of the ruling Socialist Unity Party ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" / SED), but within the Central Committee she never progressed beyond the candidates' list for Politburo membership.[1][2]
^ abHorst Laude; Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Schmidt, Elli * 9.8.1908, † 30.7.1980 SED-Funktionärin, Vorsitzende des DFD". "Wer war wer in der DDR?" There are two biographical summaries reproduced on a single web-page here. "Wer war wer in der DDR?" is placed on the top half of the page. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
^Anna Kaminsky (30 October 2017). Elli Schmidt (1908-1980). Ch. Links Verlag. p. 39. ISBN 978-3-86153-978-0. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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