Ilse Thiele

Ilse Thiele (4 November 1920 – 10 January 2010) was an East German politician. She was a member of the powerful Central Committee of the country's ruling SED (party) between 1954 and 1989.

Life

Early years Ilse Neukrantz was born in Berlin's central Lichtenberg quarter. Her father was a warehouseman who was later employed in clerical work. Her mother was a milliner. Ilse and her brother attended junior and middle school locally. as national president of the Democratic Women's League, one of several quasi-political mass movements that were a feature of East Germany's Soviet based constitutional structure. Thiele would continue to head up the DFD till November 1989.

"With great patience Comrade Walter Ulbricht teaches [us] how to find the way to the heart and to the mind of every woman.” "Genosse Walter Ulbricht lehrt, mit großer Geduld den Weg zum Herzen und zum Verstand jeder Frau zu finden." Ilse Thiele quoted in 1961 the organisational alliance of second tier political parties and mass movements used by the SED to manage and, where necessary, control these elements. In 1971, she joined the national Council of State, remaining a member till January 1990. 1985: Order of Karl Marx