Adele Reiche

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Adele Reiche , b. Cords (born June 16, 1875 in Hamburg ; † August 25, 1957 there ) was a German politician of the SPD and a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life and politics

Before their wedding, Adele Reiche was employed as a teacher. During the First World War , she helped in war relief. In addition to her job as a mother and housewife, she also worked as a secretary on the district executive of the Eilbeck SPD. She was also a women's leader in this district.

Within the SPD, she was also a delegate at the Nazi Party Congress and a member of the party's Women's Action Committee.

She sat for her party from 1919 to 1931 in the Hamburg parliament.

In 1930 she founded the Hamburg branch of the "Reich Association for Birth Control and Sexual Hygiene" with her party member and member of the Bundestag, Paula Hennigsen . The association rejected Paragraph 218 and informed party members and other women about contraception options.

See also

Source and web links

  • Rita Bake and Brita Reimers: This is how they lived! Walking on the paths of women in Hamburg's old and new town. Hamburg 2003, p. 195.