page_title: Käte Duncker
section_title: Celebration
hierarchical_section_title: Käte Duncker / Celebration
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Das Käte-Duncker-Denkmal im Depot einer Steinmetzwerkstatt (2013)
context_page_description: Käte Duncker was a German political and feminist activist who became a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany and then the Communist Party of Germany.
context_section_description: The East German state needed to find suitable heroes and heroines:  Käte Duncker evidently satisfied the criteria.  Before 1990 a number of places had streets named after her. In Friedrichroda the street in which her mother had run a small guest house during the closing decades of the nineteenth century became "Käte-Duncker-Straße".   Schools, Kindergarten, and even the teachers' training college she had attended in Eisenach were renamed in her honour.   As recently as 2013 a mayoral candidate in Hanover was proposing that the street "Walderseestraße" should be renamed as "Käte-Duncker-Straße", as one of four street name changes intended to demonstrate that his city was liberal, progressive, and open to the world, having left its undemocratic national socialist and monarchist days behind.
  Inevitably, however, heroes of the German Democratic Republic lost a little of their lustre after the changes that led to the demise of the régime, followed by German reunification in October 1990. In a public park ("Kurpark") in Friedrichroda the memorial statue showing Duncker as a teacher instructing three pupils was removed in 2009 in order to clear the way for a new walkway. (Nevertheless, unconfirmed assurances from town officials, briefly reported in the local press, indicated that it would be restored to the park, in an alternative location, some time round 2018.)
  On 15 October 2013 Germany's Die Linke (The Left) party renamed its meeting room at the Regional Parliament in Thuringia (where she sat as a Communist Party member in the 1920s) the "Käte Duncker room" (German: Käte-Duncker-Saal).
caption: This memorial was removed from the public park at Friedrichroda  in 2009 to clear the way for a new walkway.
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