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Inge Lange
Lange in 1976
Secretary for Woman of the Central Committee Secretariat
In office 1978 – 8 November 1989
General Secretary
Erich Honecker
Egon Krenz
Preceded by
Erich Honecker
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Head of the Department for Woman of the Central Committee
In office August 1961 – 8 November 1989
Secretary
Erich Honecker
Paul Verner
herself
Preceded by
Hilde Krasnogolowy
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Volkskammer for Halberstadt, Wernigerode
In office 14 November 1963 – 16 November 1989
Preceded by
multi-member district
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
In office 30 July 1953 – 17 October 1954
Preceded by
multi-member district
Succeeded by
multi-member district
Personal details
Born
Ingeburg Rosch
(1927-07-24)24 July 1927 Leipzig, Free State of Saxony, Weimar Republic (now Germany)
Died
13 July 2013(2013-07-13) (aged 85) Berlin, Germany
Political party
SED-PDS (1989–1990)
Other political affiliations
Socialist Unity Party (1946–1989) Communist Party of Germany (1945–1946)
Children
Katja Lange-Müller
Alma mater
Party Academy Karl Marx
Occupation
Politician
Party Functionary
Teacher
Awards
Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class
Banner of Labor
Order of Karl Marx
Central institution membership
1973–1989: Candidate member, Politburo of the Central Committee
1964–1989: Full member, Central Committee
1963–1964: Candidate member, Central Committee
Other offices held
1950–1951: Second Secretary, Free German Youth in Berlin
1949–1950: First Secretary, Free German Youth Territorial Organization Wismut
Ingeburg "Inge" Lange (24 July 1927 – 13 July 2013) was an East German politician.[1]
Along with Margarete Müller and Margot Honecker she was one of a small number of women to reach the higher ranks in the country's power structure.[2][3] She was the leader of the Women Department of the Central Committee of the country's ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED / Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands).[3] She played a central role in liberalising East German Abortion laws.[2]
Lange in 1982
^dpa. "Berlin – Die frühere SED-Politikerin Inge Lange ist tot. Sie starb am Samstag. Lange wurde 85 Jahre alt". Berliner Zeitung(online). Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
^ abDavid Childs (14 August 2013). "Inge Lange: One of few women to hold power in the GDR". The Independent (online). Retrieved 26 November 2014.
^ abHelmut Müller-Enbergs; Andreas Herbst [in German]. "Lange, Ingeburg geb. Rosch * 24.7.1927, † 13.7.2013 Kandidatin des Politbüros u. Leiterin der Abteilung Frauen des ZK der SED". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
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