Marta Schanzenbach

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Marta Schanzenbach (approx. 1976)

Marta Schanzenbach , b. Lehmann (born February 7, 1907 in Gengenbach , † June 3, 1997 in Offenburg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

biography

Schanzenbach (née Lehmann) was the eldest of seven children of the Gengenbach economics administrator Hermann Lehmann (1882–1966), who in 1900 was one of the founding members of the Gengenbach SPD local association. In 1933 she married Albert Schanzenbach (born 1906 in Heilbronn , missing from Bobruisk since June 28, 1944 in World War II ) who, like her, worked as a welfare worker in Berlin.

education and profession

In contrast to her younger sisters, Marta, like her brothers, received vocational training and was able to attend the community school in her hometown. Her wish to become a teacher was not fulfilled due to her precarious family situation and her lack of school education. After two years of family housework, from 1925 she was given the opportunity to work as a saleswoman for consumer goods . There she got an insight into the material needs of other working-class families. In 1928 she became a member of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO), at that time still a working group of the SPD. After one and a half years of training as a nanny in Mannheim and Karlsruhe, she completed further training as a welfare worker at the AWO welfare school in Berlin from 1929 to 1931. Until she was released by the National Socialists in 1933, she worked as a family welfare worker at the Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg youth welfare office. After her marriage to Albert Schanzenbach in 1933, she remained unemployed and looked after her family as a housewife. In 1939 she was given another job as a welfare worker in Berlin, as the male employees of the social welfare offices were drafted into the armed forces. In 1942, at the insistence of her husband, she moved to Gengenbach with her two children and was employed there as a welfare worker for the city of Gengenbach until 1949. Until 1945 she was a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare and the German Labor Front DAF .

From 1946 to 1976 she was chairwoman of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) Südbaden and from 1948 to 1972 deputy AWO federal chairwoman.

politics

Marta (Lehmann) founded the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) Gengenbach, the then youth organization of the SPD, and took over its chairmanship. In 1925 she actively joined the SPD. In 1947 she was co-founder and from 1958 to 1966 chairwoman of the Federal Women's Committee of the SPD. She had been a member of the German Bundestag from its first election from 1949 to 1972 and was always elected to parliament via her party's state list. From 1949 to 1969 she was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for family and youth issues (until 1953: committee for youth welfare), from 1954 to 1964 a member of the parliamentary group committee of the SPD, from 1949 to 1969 a member of the war victims committee, from 1949 to 1972 a deputy member of the social committee , from 1955 to 1972 alternate member of the Defense Committee. In 1958 she became a member of the party executive and presidium of the SPD. She was also involved in the “International Council of Social Democratic Women”. In 1974 she became a member of the SPD Federal Seniors' Council.

Publications

Due to her proletarian origins, Schanzenbach did not publish an autobiography, she was a woman of action, but her articles and contributions to women's politics are definitely worth mentioning.

  • Article in: Social Democratic Party of Germany (Ed.): Women make politics. What they are - how they became. Life fates of political women (= series for women's issues. No. 4 without year [1956]).
  • Women, mothers, families in today's society . In: German Trade Union Federation (Ed.): Women help, women build up! Lectures at the 2nd Federal Women's Conference of the DGB from May 12 to 14, 1955 in Dortmund . Bund-Verlag, Cologne-Deutz 1955, OCLC 42849036 .
  • Article In: Intelligence Service of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare: Report from the Bundestag. 1961.
  • Elfriede Eilers, Marta Schanzenbach: On the post-war history of family policy from a social democratic point of view . In: Reinhard Bartholomäi, Wolfgang Bodenbender, Hardo Henkel, Renate Hüttel (eds.): Social policy after 1945. History and analyzes. Ernst Schellenberg on his 70th birthday. Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1977, p. 229-238 .

Honors

literature

  • Regine Marquardt : Marta Schanzenbach (1907–1997) . In: Yes to politics: Women in the German Bundestag (1949–1961). Selected biographies . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2274-8 , pp. 179 ff . ( books.google.de - excerpt).
  • Gisela Notz : Marta Schanzenbach . In: Women in the team. Social Democrats in the Parliamentary Council and in the German Bundestag 1948/49 to 1957 - with 26 biographies . Dietz, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-8012-4131-9 , pp. 435-459 .
  • Gisela Notz: Who was ... Marta Schanzenbach ?: "Misery, hunger and hopelessness of the poor determined their caring practice" . In: social magazine. The magazine for social work. tape 29 , no. 7/8 , 2004, ISSN  0340-8469 , p. 6-8 .
  • Jens Reimer Prüss: Marta Schanzenbach (1907–1997) . In: Forward . No. 11 , 2005 ( vorwaerts.de - special edition for the 2005 party congress).
  • Renate Tebbel: Marta Schanzenbach. (1907-1997). A woman from the very beginning. Herder GmbH, Freiburg (Breisgau) a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30378-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City Archives Gengenbach, inventory old files, signature 203,519, index cards Albert Schanzenbach
  2. ^ Regine Marquardt: Yes to politics. Women in the German Bundestag 1949–1961. Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2274-8 , pp. 185 f.
  3. ↑ Gengenbach City Archives, inventory 220: old files, signature 203030.
  4. ↑ Schanzenbach, b. Lehmann, Marta . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Saalfeld to Szyszka] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1067 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 798 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Source: curriculum vitae in the Gengenbach city archive
  6. ^ Photo in the Gengenbach city archive
  7. ^ Regine Marquardt: Yes to politics. Women in the German Bundestag 1949–1961. Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2274-8 , p. 299.
  8. ↑ Minutes of the city council resolution of July 10, 1996 granting Marta Schanzenbach honorary citizenship.
personal data
SURNAME Schanzenbach, Marta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, Marta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Gengenbach
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1997
Place of death Offenburg