Elli Schmidt
East German politician (1908-1980) · Politicians · Died at 71
Elli Paula Schmidt was a German communist political activist with links to Moscow, where as a young woman she spent most of the war years.
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She returned in 1945 to what later became the German Democratic Republic where she pursued a successful political career till her fall from grace: that came as part of a wider clear out of peoples critical of the national leadership in the aftermath of the 1953 uprising. She was formally rehabilitated on 29 July 1956, but never returned to mainstream politics.
