Luise Dornemann was born on Luise Fremy: 23 February 1901 - 17 January 1992 and was a women's rights activist-politician and, in her later years, a writer.
11 Facts About Luise Dornemann
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Luise Dornemann completed her schooling locally in 1917, but by 1920 had moved away to Aachen where, in 1920, she undertook a university entrance exam at the higher grammar school, and where just a year later she emerged, qualified, from the city's teachers' training college.
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Luise Dornemann became increasingly radicalized, and in 1928 became a member of the Communist Party.
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Luise Dornemann was undertaking "illegal political work", in contact with the resistance activist Rudolf Scheffel among others.
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In 1936 Luise Dornemann succeeded in leaving Berlin and finding her way to London.
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Luise Dornemann was a leading member of a refugee organisation founded in 1939, the "Free German League of Culture", associated with that organisation's "Social Advisory Centre".
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Luise Dornemann later served as political secretary to the British Council for German Democracy.
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Luise Dornemann was able to return to Berlin only in 1947, settling in the eastern part of the city, which since May 1945 had been administered as part of the Soviet occupation zone.
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Luise Dornemann held specific responsibility for schools, the arts, training and education.
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Luise Dornemann retired from her positions with the DFD and the WIDF in 1953.
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Luise Dornemann nevertheless remained a member of the DFD national executive till 1989.