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Lotte Ulbricht (19 April 1903 in Rixdorf; † 27. March 2002 in Berlin, Pankow) was a Socialist Unity Party of Germany functioner and the second wife of the East German leader Walter Ulbricht.

Charlotte was born in 1903 as a daughter of an assistant and a home female worker in Berlin. It has an older brother, Bruno. After attendance of the people and middle school it was busy as office workers and a shorthand-typist. It joined 1919 of the free socialist youth, 1921 the KPD. She worked at the central committee of the KPD, was 1922-23 shorthand-typist with the communist youth-international (KJI) in Moscow, thereafter member of the central committee of the KPD and the KPD Reichtagsfraktion, 1926-27 Archivarin with the KJI and then until 1931 secretary and shorthand-typist at the commercial representation of the USSR in Berlin. 1931 emigrierte it with her first married man Erich Wendt to Moscow. It was Referentin with the communist international one and completed a remote study at the academy for marxism Leninism and an evening study at the communist Moscow State University. After the arrest of its married man 1936 in the context of the stalinistischen cleanings also it had to submit of an investigation and kept to 1938 a party parteirüge. She worked 1939-41 as Setzerin in printering for foreign literature, afterwards until 1945 again for the communist international one.

Until 1947 she was member in the central committee of the communist party, thereafter personal woman employee of Walter Ulbricht, which it already could do from their Muscovites time. After the marriage ceremony with walter Ulbricht separated it as a personal woman employee and began a study at Institut for society sciences, who locked her 1959 as diploma Gesellschaftswissenschaftlerin. 1959-73 were it woman employee at Institut for marxism Leninism, where she was responsible for the editorship of the speeches and writings walter Ulbrichts published of Institut among other things.

Besides, she was member of the woman commission at the secretariat of the central committee and with the Politburo of the central committee of the SED. Since July 1973 it was in the retirement. Lotte Ulbricht was often distinguished by the state and party leadership of the GDR: it received among other things 1959, 1963 and 1978 the patriotic earnings/service medals, 1969 and 1983 the Order of Karl Marx and 1988 the large star of the people friendship.

In a rare interview, after German reunification, in 1990, she complained that "Honecker wasted my husband's inheritance".

She married first Erich Wendt (marriage dissolved 1936) and married to Walter Ulbricht in 1953. she had an adopted daughter, deceased.