Hanna Rautenbach

Hanna Rautenbach (born Hanna Weber: 28 May 1889 – 27 August 1981) was a German politician (KPD).

Life Hanna Weber was born into a working-class family in Horn, a small town in the countryside to the north of Paderborn. As a young woman she worked in domestic service and as an unskilled worker in Solingen and Düsseldorf. In 1911 she married her first husband, Walter Staubes. Over the next decade, however, the relations between East and West Germany became less antagonistic, in 1968 a new version of the former party was launched as the German Communist Party ( "Deutsche Kommunistische Partei" / DKP), notionally as "an entirely new party". Hanna Rautenbach was by now aged 79 and no longer politically or professionally active. Nevertheless, she lost no time in joining the "new" DKP.