[1][2] Lucie Hein was born in Rüdersdorf then a short distance outside Berlin on its eastern side.
[2] Between 1945 and 1952 she was installed in the council at Petershagen, working successively as a secretary, a senior clerk and head of the personnel department.
[2] In March 1951 she was selected to attend a three-month course at the regional party academy in Wandlitz.
During this time she also took a one-year course of study at the Walter Ulbricht Academy for Public and Legal Sciences, following which she was employed as personal assistant the Frankfurt regional leadership team Party First Secretary with responsibility for governance, bloc parties and church affairs.
Redevelopment at this time also involved blowing up the old university buildings in order to replace them.