Anna Leibbrand
| Anna Leibbrand Anna Schlotterbeck |
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|---|---|
| Born |
Anna (Josephine) Wiedemann 2 May 1902 Munich, Germany |
| Died | 24 July 1972 Groß Glienicke, German Democratic Republic |
| Occupation | Political activist, writer |
| Political party |
KPD SED |
| Spouse(s) | (1923) Hans von Fischer (1939) Friedrich Schlotterbeck (1951) |
Anna Leibbrand (2 May 1902 – 24 July 1972) was a left-wing German political activist and writer.
She left Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime, but twenty years later, after returning to Germany was arrested and for several years imprisoned, in the aftermath of the Noel Field espionage affair.
She was married three times and accordingly may appear in sources under any one of the following four names:
Anna Wiedemann was born in Munich where her father worked as a printer, and where she attended elementary school, after which she moved to a School of Mechanical Engineering in Esslingen, emerging in the third year of the war, 1917, with a qualification in Technical Drawing. She then took a job as a graphic artist and typist with Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart-Feuerbach.
1918 was the year of her sixteenth birthday and it was the year when she joined the and the . It was also the year of German defeat in the First World War, which was followed by many months of national and regional revolution. She participated in the Spartacus League's battles in Stuttgart that took place between November 1918 and January 1919. In 1924 she became a member of the recently established German Communist Party, becoming a member of the party's youth wing leadership for the regional parties in Königsberg, Danzig, Halle and for Berlin itself.
In 1923 she had married , a leading Party Official from Stuttgart. By 1927 they were living in Moscow where she worked for the Comintern as a typist till 1929. When the couple returned to Berlin in 1929 Anna Leibbrand became the party women's section head for the Berlin-Brandenburg district. She was also working as an editor on a party newspaper called "Die Arbeiterin" (literally "The [female] Worker"). Until 1933 she also sat on the district council.
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