Inge Lange

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Ingeburg "Inge" Lange (24 July 1927 – 13 July 2013) was an East German politician. Along with Margarete Müller and Margot Honecker she was one of a small number of women to reach the higher ranks in the country's power structure. She was the leader of the Women Department of the Central Committee of the country's ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED / Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands). She played a central role in liberalising East German abortion laws. Inge Lange was born into a politically conscious family in Leipzig, as Ingeburg Rosch. Her father was Alfred Rosch (1899–1945), a Communist Party activist. While she was still a young child, the reality of post-democratic Germany came to her home when her father was arrested for transporting illegal (political) books and, for a period, imprisoned in 1935/36. Ingeburg secured a training as a dressmaker between 1943 and 1946. In 1945 she became a member of Antifascist youth in the Großzschocher quarter of Leipzig. In 1945 she joined the Communist Party (KPD).