Luise Albertz

Luise Albertz (born June 22, 1901 in Duisburg , † February 1, 1979 in Oberhausen ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Albertz was the daughter of the Prussian SPD member of the Landtag, Hermann Albertz (1877–1945) , who was later murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . After attending primary and commercial school, Albertz completed an apprenticeship in the Oberhausen city administration, then worked as an accountant and from 1921 to 1933 as a branch manager for the latest news . From 1934 to 1939 she worked as a foreign exchange accountant. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, she was assigned to work as a clerk for the city administration in Oberhausen in order to replace male employees drafted for military service.

After the war, she first became the mayor's secretary in 1945 , and she soon took his place herself. In 1948 she was sent to the administrative board of the NWDR and the supervisory board of Hüttenwerke Oberhausen AG . She was also a member of the German Council of the European Movement . Luise Albertz was not married and had no children.

politics

Since 1915 Albertz was a member of the SPD and initially also of the socialist youth workers . From 1945 she participated in the reconstruction of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia . She was Lord Mayor of Oberhausen from 1946 to 1948 and from 1956 until her death . She was the first female mayor of a major German city. Albertz was a member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia from April 20, 1947 to June 17, 1950 . In 1947 and 1948 she was a deputy member of the Zone Advisory Council for the British Zone of Occupation . She was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1969. In the first four federal elections she entered parliament via the SPD's state list in North Rhine-Westphalia, and in 1965 she won the direct mandate in the Oberhausen constituency . In the Bundestag she was chairman of the petitions committee from 1949 to June 3, 1959 . Because of her great commitment in this position, she was also called "mother of the afflicted".

Honors

• With the Luise-Albertz-Halle one of the central halls of the congress center in Oberhausen , the former town hall, is named after Luise Albertz.
• In Lübeck was Luise-Albertz-road named after her.
• The Hermann and Luise-Albertz senior citizens ' housing complex of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in Oberhausen is named after her and her father Hermann .
• In Oberhausen-Neue Mitte, Luise-Albertz-Platz was named after her.
• She was awarded the Marie Juchacz plaque from the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in 1969.

literature

• Bernd Haunfelder : North Rhine-Westphalia. Country and people. A biographical manual. Düsseldorf, 2006. p. 38.
• Gisela Notz: women in the team. Social Democrats in the Parliamentary Council and in the German Bundestag 1948 / 49–1957. With 26 biographies . Dietz, Bonn 2003. ISBN 3-8012-4131-9 . (Luise Albertz: pp. 111–129)

Web links

• Luise Albertz at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Short biography in the Rheinische Geschichte portal