Agnes Katharina Maxsein

Agnes Katharina Maxsein (born December 4, 1904 in Cadenbach im Westerwald , † October 31, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German politician of the CDU .

Life and work

After graduation on the Oberlyzeum in Frankfurt studied Maxsein, the Roman Catholic faith was, philosophy, French and English in Frankfurt , Giessen and Berlin . In 1930 she received her doctorate in philosophy. In 1936 she passed the state examination in education, but was only accepted into the civil service as a student councilor in 1945 after the end of Nazi rule . As early as 1947 she was promoted to director of studies and since 1951 has been a high school councilor at the Hauptschulamt in Berlin. In 1985 she was named Berlin City Elder.

Political party

Maxsein participated in the founding of the CDU Berlin and was its deputy state chairman from 1946 to 1948.

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MPs

From 1946 to 1952, Maxsein was a member of the Berlin state parliament (first city ​​council , later Berlin House of Representatives ). She was Vice President of the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1952.

With the increase in the number of Berlin MPs on February 1, 1952, Maxsein came to the German Bundestag , to which she belonged until 1969.

honors and awards

In 1962 she was appointed Lady of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Tisserant and invested on May 4, 1963 in the Konstanz Minster by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order.

In 1968 she was honored with the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

She is buried in St. Hedwigs-Friedhof III in Berlin-Reinickendorf. Her grave is dedicated to the State of Berlin as an honor grave .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 185 (331 pages).
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 544-545.