Margarete Jung

Margarete Jung (12 May 1898 — 30 November 1979) was a German communist who was imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II and later held leadership positions in East Germany.

Born in 1898, Jung joined the Spartacus League in 1918 and became a member of the Communist Party of Germany in 1919.

Jung served her sentence in the jails of Jawor and Waldheim and should have been released in 1942, but was instead re-arrested and transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp where she survived until the end of the war.

[2] After the end of World War II, Jung lived in East Germany.

[1] On 27 October 1951, Jung was appointed to the central executive committee of the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime.