[1] For the twelve Nazi years she engaged in political resistance, spending much of the period in state detention.
[1] Under Germany's second one-party dictatorship she served for many years as a deputy president in the Presidium of the People's Chamber where she represented the country's Trades Union Federation.
She briefly relocated to Berlin, possibly in connection with her political activities, but soon returned to her native Saxony.
[2] In the wake of the assassination plot of 20 July 1944 against The Leader, there was a rash of political arrests which included 280 members of the Safkow resistance group.
On 10 August 1944 Grete Groh-Kummerlöw was again arrested, again facing a charge of "Conspiracy to commit High Treason".
In the chaos of the period, Groh-Kummerlöw's planned trial never took place: on 27 April 1945 she was released from prison by the advancing Red army, by this time already fighting for control of nearby Berlin.
Grete Groh-Kummerlöw's first job involved working in Potsdam for the Soviet commander as the occupiers established an administration structure, but in August 1945 she returned to the Plauen area and immediately resumed her trades union activities.
She worked as a secretary for the Plauen Party Leadership, taking on responsibility for training communist cells and extending trades union influence in the factories.
In February 1946, in addition to her existing duties, she became a member of the FDGB National Executive, a membership which she retained till 1963.
She took a position as head of the Social Policy Department on the National Executive of the Trades Union Congress (FDGB).
In 1952 the departments at the FDGB were reconfigured and she also took over from Adolf Deter [de] responsibility for Social Security matters.
In addition to these so-called Bloc parties, certain approved Mass Organisations also received quotas of seats in the Volkskammer.
East Germany's constitutional arrangements closely followed those of the Soviet Union, which had been devised by Lenin.
One of the Mass Organisations represented in the Volkskammer was the Trades Union Congress (FDGB / Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund).
[1] In 1967 Grete Groh-Kummerlöw, now aged 58, resigned from her various political and trades union functions on health grounds.