Helene Berg

Helene Berg
Born
Helene Veser

(1906-04-10)10 April 1906
Died21 February 2006(2006-02-21) (aged 99)
NationalityGerman
Alma materInternational Lenin School
OccupationPolitician
Political partyParty of Democratic Socialism (1989–)
Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1946–1989)
Communist Party of Germany (1927–1946)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
SpousePaul Wandel
AwardsGrand Star of Peoples' Friendship (1981)
Star of Peoples' Friendship, in gold (1976)
Patriotic Order of Merit, honor clasp (1971)
Patriotic Order of Merit, in gold (1968)
Order of Karl Marx (1966)
Banner of Labour (1965)
Patriotic Order of Merit, in silver (1956)
Clara Zetkin Medal (1955)

Helene "Lene" Berg born Helene Veser (10 April 1906 21 February 2006) was a German communist politician and a resistance activist against National Socialism. Between 1958 and 1989 she was a member of the Central Committee of the ruling SED (party) in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), where she was also director of the Berlin based Academy for Social Sciences.