[3][4] Olga Schubert was born into a working-class family in Rübenau (now part of Marienberg), a village on the German frontier with Bohemia, to the south of Dresden.

She worked on building up the proletarian women's movement in Dresden and in Saxony more widely: and early in 1918 she also took part on the Saxon Munitions Worker Strike.

When the USPD itself split three years later she was part of the majority that made up the newly created German Communist Party.

At Easter in 1945 she arrived on foot in Dresden, accompanied by two fellow former inmates, and comrades from their resistance days, called Else Eisold and Liesel Grabs.

[4] After 1946 she took over the Work and Social Policy and secretariat for Saxony in the Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands / SED) The SED was formed in April 1946 through a contentious merger, in this part of Germany, involving the Communist Party and the more moderately left wing SPD.

Between 1946 and 1950 Körner also had a position on the Party Executive ("Partei Vorstand"), and until 1952, when it was abolished as part of a wider administrative restructuring, she sat as a member of the regional parliament ("Sächsischer Landtag") and of the short-lived "Länderkammer".

Olga Körner was one of the prominent Ravensbrück concentration camp inmates who were publicly commemorated during the liberation celebrations at the Ravensbrück National Memorial of the GDR, like Yevgenia Klemm, Antonina Nikiforova, Mela Ernst, Rosa Jochmann, Katja Niederkirchner, Rosa Thälmann, Olga Benário Prestes, Martha Desrumaux, Minna Villain, and Maria Grollmuß.

[4] After her death, a secondary school in Dresden was named after her in 1974, and her bronze bust was unveiled in front of a retirement home in Dresden-Zschertnitz in 1978.