{{Short description|East German historian and politician (1908–1999)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | caption = | order = | office = Principal of the<br />"Karl Marx" Party Academy | deputy1 = {{ubl|Manfred Herold|Ernst Haak}} | term_start = 12 September 1950 | term_end = 23 June 1983 | predecessor1 = Rudolf Lindau | successor1 = Kurt Tiedke | birth_name = Hanna Haschka | birth_date = {{birth date|1908|02|04|df=y}} | birth_place = Gonionds, Congress Poland, Russian Empire {{small|(now Goniądz, Poland)}} | occupation = {{hlist|Teacher|Party Functionary}} | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1999|06|22|1908|02|04}} | death_place = Berlin, Germany | spouse = | partner = Wilhelm Knigge | children = | party = Socialist Unity Party<br />{{small|(1948–1989)}} | other_party = Communist Party of Germany<br />{{small|(1930–1948)}}<br />Party of Democratic Socialism<br />{{small|(1989–1990)}} | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * University of Berlin (no degree) * International Lenin School }} | awards = {{hlist|Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class|Banner of Labor|Clara Zetkin Medal|Order of Karl Marx|Hero of Labour}} | website = | module2 = {{collapsible list | title = Central institution membership | bullets = on | 1958–1989: Full member,<br />Central Committee | 1954–1958: Candidate member,<br />Central Committee }} ---- {{collapsible list | title = Other offices held | bullets = on | 1958–1989: Member,<br />Ideological Commission at the Politburo | 1950–1976: Member,<br />Einheit editorial team }} }}
'''Hanna Wolf''' (née Haschka; 4 February 1908 – 22 June 1999) was an East German historian and socialist politician. She left Germany in 1932 for the Soviet Union where she became a Soviet citizen. She returned to East Germany in 1947 and held various posts, including rector of Parteihochschule Karl Marx (Party Academy Karl Marx). She was a long-term member of the central committee of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
==Early life and education== She was born in Goniądz, Poland, on 4 February 1908.<ref name=bundes/> Her father was a rabbi and teacher, and her mother was also a teacher.<ref name=bundes/><ref name=biog/> In 1922 she became a member of the Polish branch of the Young Communist League of Germany.<ref name=biog/> She studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin.<ref name=bundes/>
==Career and exile== Following her graduation she worked as a teacher.<ref name=biog/> She left the Jewish community in 1927.<ref name=bundes/> She joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1930.<ref name=biog/> She emigrated to the Soviet Union in April 1932 after the Nazi Party had started to gain power.<ref name=biog/> She became a Soviet citizen in 1934 and started to become involved in scientific research.<ref name=biog/> Between 1942 and 1947 she was a teacher at the Central School for German War Prisoners in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast.<ref name=biog/>
Wolf moved back to East Germany in 1947 and held several posts. She first worked at the Central Administration for Public Education<ref name=bundes/> before she became a citizen of East Germany in 1950.<ref name=bundes/> 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.<ref name=bundes/> She did, however, not publish any research work.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Stefan Berger|title=Former GDR Historians in the Reunified Germany: An Alternative Historical Culture and its Attempts to Come to Terms with the GDR Past|doi=10.1177/0022009403038001964|journal=Journal of Contemporary History|year=2003|volume=38|issue=1 |page=70|s2cid=154720242}}</ref> She became a candidate member of the SED's central committee in 1954.<ref name=bundes/> She was made its full member in 1958 which she held until 1989.<ref name=bundes/> She was also promoted to professorship in 1958.<ref name=biog/> From 1983 to 1989 she acted as a consultant at the central committee of the SED.<ref name=bundes/> She was one of the most influential Stalinist members of the SED.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Dietrich Orlow|title=The GDR's Failed Search for a National Identity, 1945-1989|journal=German Studies Review|year=2006|volume=29|issue=3|page=550|jstor=27668125}}</ref>
Wolf joined the Party of Democratic Socialism, successor of the SED, but she was expelled from the party on 10 February 1990.<ref name=bundes/>
==Personal life and death== Wolf married three times.<ref name=bundes/> She died in Berlin on 22 June 1999.<ref name=bundes>{{cite web|title=Wolf, Hanna |url=https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/de/recherche/kataloge-datenbanken/biographische-datenbanken/hanna-wolf|publisher=Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung|access-date=19 March 2023|language=de|date=October 2009}}</ref>
===Awards=== 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).<ref name=bundes/><ref name=biog>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Biographische Handbücher der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933|year=1980 |publisher=K. G. Saur|url=https://www.degruyter.com/database/BHDE/entry/BHB-3918/html|title=Wolf, Hanna |language=de}}</ref>
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