Ina Ender

Ina Ender (9 July 1917 – 27 March 2008) was a German resistance fighter, seamstress, fashion model and one of the first German criminal police officers.

Life Ender was the daughter of the trained sculptor and communist Erich Schreier and seamstress Margarete Hätzel. He worked as a clerk in the Berlin-Kreuzberg district office and was chairman of the works council there until 1933. He became a well-known opponent of the Nazis.

From 1923 to 1927, Ina Schreier attended Kreuzberg elementary school and then the Minna-Cauer School in Neukölln for her secondary education. She became involved in the student council early on and came into contact with the Young Communists in 1931 through a family friend. Ender was the first girl to attend the . By early 1939, Ender was working as a model in the Heise salon The prosecutor requested the death penalty but she was instead sentenced to 6 years in prison After her mother and son Axel were resettled from Poland, she wanted to return to Berlin. However, she was initially assigned to the newly founded branch of the People's Police to protect goods transports in Niedersedlitz near Dresden and moved there with her mother and son. In 1947, she was transferred to the Großenhain district police office. There she initially worked in the administration and a few months later as head of the office. In 1949, she moved to the criminal investigation department as chief inspector of the state authority of the People's Police in Dresden. She was responsible for investigating sabotage activities and Nazi crimes. In May 1950, at her own request, she was transferred to Berlin to the main administration of the People's Police in the area of industrial security. who worked in price controls at the Ministry of Trade and Supply. In June 1953, the couples son Dieter was born. Ender took over the management of several expropriated companies. Back in the GDR, she spent the following years working with young people and preserving traditions, gave lectures on the anti-fascist resistance struggle and became involved in the PDS in her home town of Lehnitz after the fall of the SED dictatorship in the GDR.

Awards and honours In 20 February 1970, Ender was awarded the GDR's Medal Brotherhood in Arms in Gold in a presentation held by Erich Mielke.