Ingeburg Lange

Ingeburg "Inge" Lange (24 July 1927 – 13 July 2013) was an East German politician.

Along with Margarete Müller and Margot Honecker she was one of a small number of women to reach the higher ranks in the country's power structure. She was the leader of the Women Department of the Central Committee of the country's ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED / Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands).

Between September 1951 and July 1952 she studied at the Komsomol Lenin Academy in Moscow, which can be seen as a mark of appreciation from Moscow for a difficult job well done during her time at Wismut. Inge Lange addressing the Politburo (1969)

„Noch nie zuvor haben wir Frauen in einem Staat gelebt, von dem wir wahrhaft sagen können, daß ihm unser Herz, unser Wissen und unsere Tat gehören; denn das ist unser Staat.“

With the German Democratic Republic collapsing, on 8 November she resigned from the Central Committee of the party's politburo, but she was then selected as a candidate for the replacement politburo. The entire central committee then resigned on 3 December 1989. On 21 January 1990 she was one of those expelled from The Party, which was now in the process of mutating into the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism). After this she withdrew from public life.

Death Inge Lange died in a Berlin hospital on 13 July 2013.

Awards 1959 Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver 1969 Banner of Labor 1977 Order of Karl Marx 1987 Order of Karl Marx

Daughter Inge Lange's daughter is the prize-winning novelist Katja Lange-Müller.

Publications (not a complete list) Aktuelle Probleme der Arbeit mit den Frauen bei der weiteren Verwirklichung der Beschlüsse des VIII. Parteitages der SED. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1974 (Vorträge im Parteilehrjahr der SED 1973/74). Die Verwirklichung der Beschlüsse des IX. Parteitages der SED zur weiteren Förderung der Frau. Parteihochschule beim ZK der SED, Berlin 1979. with Erich Honecker: Aus der Rede des Genossen Erich Honecker. Aus dem Bericht des Politbüros an das Zentralkomitee der SED. Berichterstatter: Genossin Inge Lange. Aus den Diskussionsreden. Beschlüsse. 12. Tagung des ZK der SED 21./22. Mai 1980. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1980. Die Frauen – aktive Mitgestalterinnen des Sozialismus. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1987. In der Frauenpolitik, so Ulbricht, dürfen nicht die Buchhalter reden. In: Egon Krenz (edited/compiled.): Walter Ulbricht. Zeitzeugen erinnern sich. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2013.