Charlotte Zinke

Charlotte Zinke (23 June 1891 – 6 November 1944, née Maetschke) was a German politician of the Communist Party (KPD) and a representative in the Reichstag.

The young Charlotte Emilie Ernestine Maetschke was born and raised in Zielenzig (now Sulęcin, Poland), in the vicinity of Frankfurt an der Oder.

She arrived in Mülheim, where she learned bricklaying and later met Communist Party functionary Willy Zinke.

Following the Nazi seizure of power, Zinke went into hiding in Essen and in the Waldeck countryside before emigrating to the Netherlands in the spring of 1933.

(„Hoffentlich habe ich die Kraft, das alles auszuhalten.“) Zinke was murdered on 6 November 1944.