Maria Weiterer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Maria Weiterer

German political activist, increasingly prominent in the Communist Party during the 1920s and 1930s

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1899

Place of Birth: Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Dec-1976

Profession: politician, resistance fighter

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Maria Weiterer

  • Maria Weiterer (born Maria Tebbe: 18 February 1899 - 1 December 1976) was a German political activist, increasingly prominent in the Communist Party during the 1920s and 1930s.She survived the twelve Nazi years, living in exile from 1934.
  • She returned to Germany after the war, settling in the Soviet occupation zone and building a career in what became the East German political establishment.
  • In 1950, however, she was stripped of her offices and party membership and given a low grade clerical post in the south of the country, far from the centres of power.
  • Much was made, at the time, of her sometimes close (it was asserted) association, as a political exile during the early 1940s, with the US diplomat-spy Noel Field.
  • She was subsequently rehabilitated in 1956, but her political career never recovered is former upward trajectory.

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