21 Facts About Elisabeth Zaisser

Elisabeth Zaisser attended a Catholic junior school between 1905 and 1908, and then a middle school for girls till 1915.

Elisabeth Zaisser withdrew from teaching when she married Wilhelm Zaisser on 6 June 1922 and is described in one source as a "housewife" between 1922 and 1932.

Wilhelm Zaisser was an energetic Communist Party activist, and in 1926 Elisabeth joined the party.

In 1927 Wilhelm Zaisser was recruited by the Comintern to work on their behalf in China where according to one source he was a co-organiser of the Guangzhou Uprising.

Elisabeth Zaisser relocated to Mukden in 1928 in order to join her husband.

Elisabeth Zaisser's husband returned to the Soviet capital from a two-year assignment in Prague at about the same time.

Elisabeth Zaisser would spend Germany's twelve Nazi years living in the Soviet Union, supporting herself with a succession of teaching jobs.

Between 1934 and 1946 Elisabeth Zaisser was responsible for German language teaching at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, where she was able to pursue further studies on her own account.

Elisabeth Zaisser undertook work as an editor for the "Moscow Teaching Books Publisher" and for the institution responsible for national university curricula.

Elisabeth Zaisser returned to Moscow in 1939, heading up the department for German language and translation courses for with the Party Central Committee.

Elisabeth Zaisser was evacuated to the south at the start of October 1941, first to Stavropol and later to Engels.

The period of greatest threat to Moscow appears to have lasted till the Autumn of 1942, when Elisabeth Zaisser returned to the city.

Elisabeth Zaisser authored a number of teaching books on German language and grammar.

Elisabeth Zaisser lost little time in joining the newly formed Socialist Unity Party which had been created through a contentious political merger in April 1946, and was now well on the way to becoming the ruling party in a new kind of German one-party dictatorship.

Elisabeth Zaisser took a position with the Workers' and Farmers' Faculty at the University of Halle where she took on a teaching contract on Soviet Literature.

In October 1949 Elisabeth Zaisser switched to the "TH Dresden", appointed "Professor of Soviet Pedagogical Methodology for Russian Teaching".

Elisabeth Zaisser became editor of Padagogik, a monthly journal with a focus on school education.

Elisabeth Zaisser relinquished the ministerial post "at her own wish" in October 1953.

Between 1950 and 1954 Elisabeth Zaisser sat as a member of East Germany's national parliament.

In December 1953 Elizabeth Elisabeth Zaisser was given the status of one persecuted by the Nazi regime, which qualified her for a small supplementary pension.

Elisabeth Zaisser worked between 1953 and 1983 in an editorial function with the Volk und Wissen Verlag publishing organisation, while supplementing her income through freelance translation work.