Gertrud Morgner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German politician
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Place of Birth: Gera, Thuringia, Germany
About Gertrud Morgner
- Gertrud Morgner (born Gertrud Müller: 8 August 1887 - 20 July 1978) was a German politician and, especially as a young woman, women's rights campaigner.
- She was a co-founder of the Jena branch of the Communist Party.
- In 1932 she emigrated with her husband to the Soviet Union.
- Her husband was arrested in 1941: the circumstances of his death remain unknown.
- Gertrud was refused permission to leave the Soviet Union till 1954, when she returned to what had by this time become the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) where she found she had acquired a certain official celebrity, honoured as a "[Communist] party veteran".
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