Hanna Wolf

Following her graduation she worked as a teacher.^[2] She left the Jewish community in 1927.^[1] She joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1930.^[2] She emigrated to the Soviet Union in April 1932 after the Nazi Party had started to gain power.^[2] She became a Soviet citizen in 1934 and started to become involved in scientific research.^[2] Between 1942 and 1947 she was a teacher at the Central School for German War Prisoners in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast.^[2]

Wolf moved back to East Germany in 1947 and held several posts. She first worked at the Central Administration for Public Education^[1] before she became a citizen of East Germany in 1950.^[1] In September of that year she was appointed rector of the Party Academy Karl Marx run by the SED and remained in office until June 1983.^[1] She did, however, not publish any research work.^[3] She became a candidate member of the SED's central committee in 1954.^[1] She was made its full member in 1958 which she held until 1989.^[1] She was also promoted to professorship in 1958.^[2] From 1983 to 1989 she acted as a consultant at the central committee of the SED.^[1] She was one of the most influential Stalinist members of the SED.^[4]

Wolf joined the Party of Democratic Socialism, successor of the SED, but she was expelled from the party on 10 February 1990.^[1]

Wolf married three times.^[1] She died in Berlin on 22 June 1999.^[1]

Wolf was the recipient of the following: Soviet medal of Fatherland (1946), Banner of Labor (1959), Clara Zetkin Medal (1964), Order of Karl Marx (1965; 1978), Patriotic Order of Merit (Gold; 1968), Soviet Order of the Fatherland (1970) and Lenin Commemorative Medal (1970).^[1][2]