Grete Mildenberg (born Grete Hill: 5 January 1902) was a
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politician (
KPD
The Communist Party of Germany (german: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, , KPD ) was a major political party in the Weimar Republic between 1918 and 1933, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in West German ...
).
Life
Grete Hill was born into a working-class family in
Elbing, an industrial town in northern Germany roughly equidistant between
Danzig and
Königsberg. She attended school locally and then moved to
Berlin to find a job. There she married Walter Mildenberg, a Jewish businessman.
[ She also joined the recently established Communist Party.][ Then, in September 1930, she was one of 77 communists elected to the national parliament (''Reichstag'').][ She was one of the party's 54 directly elected candidates, representing Electoral District 4 ( Potsdam).][ She remained a member of the Reichstag till July 1932.][
In 1931 Grete Mildenberg was sentenced for a serious Breach of the peace to an eight-month prison term by the district court in central Berlin. In January 1933 the ]Nazis
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...
took power and lost no time in transforming Germany into a one-party dictatorship. Following the Reichstag fire
The Reichstag fire (german: Reichstagsbrand, ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of ...
at the end of February the authorities took a particular "interest" in members of the Communist Party. Party activity became, by definition, illegal, but Mildenberg continued to be politically active "underground". She was arrested in 1933. In 1938 Grete Mildenberg, her husband and their son who had been born in 1935, left Germany for Belgium. Later they emigrated either to the United States of America or to South America. Their subsequent fate is unknown.[
]
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Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Communist Party of Germany politicians
Communists in the German Resistance
Emigrants from Nazi Germany to Belgium
1902 births
Year of death missing