Lina Maria Becker was born into a working class socialist family in
Hanover. After 1918, like her brothers (1894–1942) and Ernst Becker (1900–1932) she joined the newly emerging
Communist Party and became politically active in the
Hamburg region. His widow died in 1976, continuing to shun political involvement until her death. By the time she died she was living in
Bremen in
West Germany, able to live comfortably because of profits remaining from her husband's cinema ownership. ==References==