Anna Kloecker

Anna Klöcker (born July 25, 1895 in Waldfeucht - Bocket ; † January 16, 1977 in Stolberg (Rhineland) ), fought for equal rights for women and was a member of the Center Party from 1920 to 1933 and of the CDU since 1945 .

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Klöcker attended the teachers' seminar between 1908 and 1914. She then taught as a primary school teacher until she was dismissed in 1933 for her political activities, as she was councilor in Herzogenrath for the Center Party between 1920 and 1933 . Until 1934 she was carer in the service of the governor, but she was also dismissed here because of "political unreliability". From 1945 she was able to work as a substitute teacher again.

From 1945 to 1972 she was city councilor of the Herzogenrath city ​​council , from 1946 to 1969 of the district council of the district of Aachen and from 1947 to 1970 of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . She was a co-founder of the CDU local and district party of the Aachen district and worked primarily in Herzogenrath and Eschweiler .

Pope Pius XII awarded her in 1955 the papal order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice .

In Eschweiler, Klöcker campaigned for schools, youth homes, the St. Josef children's home , churches as well as the construction of the St. Antonius Hospital and the preservation of the old town hall.

She is the namesake for the "Anna-Klöcker-Straße" in Herzogenrath and in Stolberg / Rhld. The path “Anna-Klöcker-Anlage” between the valley station and the district court in Eschweiler-Mitte is also named after her.

Web links

• Anna Klöcker at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Members of the district council March 20 , 1946 - October 12 , 1946 , on the website of the Aachen city region
• The history of the Frauen Union Aachen Land , on the website of the CDU district association Aachen-Land