Hilde Neumann
- Category : 1905-births
- Type : GE
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Triple Split
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Maya 1
Biography
German lawyer, politically leftwing and of Jewish provenance, who spent the Nazi years in exile. In 1947 she returned to Berlin and resumed her political focus, becoming a senior legal official in the Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands / SED), which by 1949 had become the ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) which was formally established in October of that year. She also served as editor in chief of Neue Justiz, an East German monthly specialist journal concerned with legal matters.
On 7 October 1958 Hilde Neumann received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. The next year, on 9 September, it was announced that she had been awarded the Banner of Labor. However, she had by t4his stage become seriously ill, and she died on 11 September 1959 at age 54 without being able to receive the award.