Anna Strohsahl

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Anna Strohsahl, ca.1905
Anna Strohsahl, ca.1905
Anna Strohsahl in 1950 with grandson Götz Strömsdörfer

Anna Emilie Strohsahl , b. Franze (born October 2, 1885 in Seifhennersdorf , † January 1, 1953 in Cuxhaven ), was a German politician ( SPD ) and the first councilwoman in the Cuxhaven city parliament. In protest against the takeover of power by the National Socialists , she left the council with the entire SPD parliamentary group in May 1933.

Life

Anna Franze was born as the daughter of the bricklayer Ernst Wilhelm Franze and the weaver Christiane Auguste Franze on October 2nd, 1885 in Seifhennersdorf in Upper Lusatia . Without any higher education or vocational training, she first worked as a housemaid in Zittau , Bavaria and Hamburg before she came to Cuxhaven in 1907. On July 3, 1914, she married the printer John Eduard Strohsahl. From the marriage the daughters Ruth (1915), Erika (1917) and Sonja (1927, died shortly after birth).

Political beginnings

Anna Strohsahl's political engagement began after the First World War . Her husband was the editor of the social democratic newspaper Alte Liebe , for which she later also wrote articles. Together with other social democrats, she founded the Cuxhaven women's group of the SPD on April 23, 1920, and became its first chairwoman on June 2, 1921.

Citizens' representation and advice

Anna Strohsahl was elected to the Cuxhaven city council in the city council election on March 2, 1924. This made her and Olga Geerken ( DDP ) the only women on the committee. Anna Strohsahl was elected to the school board, the advanced training committee and the welfare office. She was committed to the schooling of working class children and the support of pensioners , unemployed and homeless . In the same year she was appointed a delegate in the district welfare association, and in 1925 she was elected to the housing office. In spring 1927 she left the council, but was re-elected on October 23, 1927 as the only woman. She was re-elected to the District Welfare Association. Anna Strohsahl called for more political commitment from women. In an article she wrote: "Even the female voters have to get used to following the activities of the representatives in the parliaments." After the city council election on October 19, 1930, she was the only woman again to be a member of the council. In the session on October 31, 1930, she was elected the first and only councilor in the Cuxhaven city parliament. She was elected as a representative in the youth welfare office. When the council dismissed "cleaning women in schools whose men have an adequate income" as "double earners" in 1931, Anna Strohsahl was the only council member to oppose the dismissal. On September 3, 1931, she resigned from the Evangelical Lutheran Church .

Political work after January 30, 1933

After the National Socialists came to power , the work of the Cuxhaven Social Democrats became more difficult. On the grounds that the council and city council “no longer correspond to the will of the population”, the NSDAP granted leave to the elected mayor Werner Grube ( DVP ), who was now temporarily represented by Baurat Schätzler ( NSDAP ). On May 9, 1933, the SPD council members were removed from all committee chairs. Anna Strohsahl then stated that “it is probably not the point of the Gleichschaltung to exclude the left, which represents 4,000 voters, from participating”. On May 19, 1933, the council decided to pay the expense allowance of 50 Reichsmarks only to councilors who head a department. At the meeting of the city representatives, Councilor Morisse stated that the Social Democrats were no longer important: "You have nothing more to do here than to be ashamed and to remain silent." Anna Strohsahl and the entire SPD parliamentary group then left the city council . After the SPD was banned on June 22, 1933, its political work ended for the time being. The Strohsahl family's personal situation also deteriorated, and harassment controls by the National Socialists increased. The Hamburg High School Authority subsequently changed the high school diploma that her daughter Ruth had passed from “good” to “poor”, whereupon she fled to England . Since the prohibition of the "old love" on March 16, 1933, John Strohsahl was unemployed. Anna Strohsahl supported the family as a domestic help and seamstress until the end of the Second World War .

Post War and Death

On November 22, 1945, the British military government commissioned Anna Strohsahl and 29 other unencumbered city officials to take over the management of Cuxhaven until the free elections on October 13, 1946. Again she was involved in the welfare office, in the school committee and from June 1946 in the building and housing committee. On October 29, 1948, Anna Strohsahl was formally denazified. Political work after 1946 was no longer possible due to a long illness. Anna Strohsahl died on January 1st, 1953.

literature

  • City of Cuxhaven, Der Oberstadtdirektor, Women's Commissioner (Hrsg.): Power women women power. Council women in the city of Cuxhaven since 1919. Cuxhaven 2000.
  • Hans-Jürgen Kahle: The workers' movement in Cuxhaven 1918-1933. Wilhelm-Heidsiek-Verlag: Cuxhaven 1991, ISBN 978-3-93545-903-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b City of Cuxhaven, The Oberstadtdirektor, Frauenbeauftragte (Ed.): Power women women power. Council women in the city of Cuxhaven since 1919. Cuxhaven 2000, p. 33.
  2. ↑ Registry office of the Seifhennersdorf community: Marriage certificate No. 24/1914, January 29, 1953.
  3. ↑ City of Cuxhaven, The Oberstadtdirektor, Frauenbeauftragte (Ed.): Power women women power. Council women in the city of Cuxhaven since 1919. Cuxhaven 2000, p. 34.
  4. ^ A b City of Cuxhaven, The Oberstadtdirektor, Frauenbeauftragte (Ed.): Power women women power. Council women in the city of Cuxhaven since 1919. Cuxhaven 2000, p. 11.
  5. ↑ Minutes of the public meeting of the city council on Monday, March 10, 1924, at 6 o'clock in the evening in the town hall, conference room , Cuxhaven city archives , pp. 3–4.
  6. ↑ Minutes of the public meeting of the city council on Thursday, September 18, 1924, 8 a.m. in the town hall, meeting room , Cuxhaven City Archives, p. 6.
    Minutes of the public meeting of the city council on October 10, 1925, 6 a.m. in the city hall, meeting room , city archive Cuxhaven, p. 5.
  7. ↑ Minutes of the public meeting of the city council on Friday, March 4, 1927, at 8 a.m. in the town hall, conference room , Cuxhaven city archive, p. 5.
  8. ^ A b City of Cuxhaven, The Oberstadtdirektor, Frauenbeauftragte (Ed.): Power women women power. Council women in the city of Cuxhaven since 1919. Cuxhaven 2000, p. 37.
  9. ↑ Minutes of the public meeting of the city council on Friday, November 4, 1927, at 8 a.m. in the town hall, conference room , Cuxhaven city archive, p. 3.
  10. ↑ Anna Strohsahl: Woman and press . In: Old love. Anniversary edition for the 70th anniversary . Cuxhaven December 1, 1929.
  11. ↑ Minutes of the public meeting of the city council on Friday, October 31, 1930, 8 p.m., in the town hall, conference room , Cuxhaven city archive, p. 7.
  12. ^ Minutes of the council meeting on Monday, November 3, 1930, 10 a.m., in the town hall, room 7 , Cuxhaven city archive, p. 4.
  13. ^ Minutes of the council meeting on Monday, July 27, 1931, 3 1/2 p.m., in the town hall, room 7 , City Archives Cuxhaven, p. 5.
    Minutes of the council meeting on Thursday, October 15, 1931, 3 1/2 p.m., in the town hall , Room 10 , Cuxhaven City Archives, p. 3.
  14. ↑ Hamburg registry office No. 18: Church resignation certificate Anna Strohsahl, September 3, 1931.
  15. ^ Minutes of the council meeting on Friday, March 10, 1933, 4 p.m., in the town hall, room 22 , Cuxhaven City Archives
    Minutes of the council meeting on Monday, March 20, 1933, 4 p.m., in the town hall, room 22 , Cuxhaven city archives
  16. ^ Minutes of the council meeting on Tuesday, May 9, 1933, 4 p.m., in the town hall, room 22 , Cuxhaven city archives, p. 2.
  17. ^ Minutes of the council meeting on Friday, May 19, 1933, 5 p.m., in the town hall, room 22 , Cuxhaven city archive, p. 3.
  18. ↑ Minutes of the public meeting of the city council on Friday, May 26, 1933, 8 p.m., in the town hall, conference room , Cuxhaven city archive, p. 2.
  19. ↑ June 22nd, 1933: Actual ban of the SPD. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, accessed on January 14, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Ruth Arndt: A Teenager in Nazi Germany . In: Gymnasium Abendrothstraße Cuxhaven (Hrsg.): Mitteilungen 1983 . Cuxhaven 1983, p. 109-112 .
  21. ↑ Engaged in the social. Anna Strohsahl (1885–1953), councilwoman from the “first hour”. In: Cuxhavener Nachrichten . Cuxhaven-Niederelbe Verlagsgesellschaft, Cuxhaven July 3, 1999, p. 8 .
  22. ↑ City of Cuxhaven, The Oberstadtdirektor, Frauenbeauftragte (Ed.): Power women women power. Council women in the city of Cuxhaven since 1919. Cuxhaven 2000, pp. 37, 39.
  23. ^ The public plaintiff at the main denazification committee of the city of Cuxhaven: Decision VE 1320/48 C, October 29, 1948.
personal data
SURNAME Strohsahl, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franze, Anna Emilie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Seifhennersdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1953
Place of death Cuxhaven