Agnes Nielsen

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Agnes Nielsen (born October 18, 1894 in Preetz ; † May 16, 1967 in Kiel ) was a German politician ( KPD / SPD / DFU ).

Life

Nielsen was a caregiver by profession . She belonged to the KPD in the 1920s and ran for the Kiel city ​​council in 1929 . In October 1933 she was arrested along with other Kiel communists and sentenced in April 1934 to 21 months in prison. After her release she took part in the resistance against National Socialism .

In 1946 she was a member of the first appointed state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein for the KPD . On March 13, 1946, she resigned her mandate in order to continue to work as a government councilor in the Office for People's Welfare. In 1948 she joined the SPD because she was afraid of losing her job as a KPD member at the Reparation Office in Kiel.

From 1961 she was a member of the German Peace Union and was expelled from the SPD for this reason. She was honorary chairwoman of the VVN .

literature

  • Susanne Sander: Careers and Barriers. Landtag politicians in the FRG in the post-war period from 1946 to 1960 . Helmer, Königstein / Taunus 2004 ISBN 3-89741-163-6 , pp. 233, 273. (Marburg, Univ., Diss., 2003)
  • Nicole Schultheiß: There's no such thing as impossible ... 24. Portraits of outstanding women from Kiel's city history . Edited by Annegret Bergmann, Kiel 2007, p. 92.

Web links

  • Agnes Nielsen in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

  1. All hands on deck. And the women in the galley? Women in Schleswig-Holstein Politics 1945-1958 , State Center for Political Education Schleswig-Holstein , 1993, ISBN 978-3-88312-045-4 , p. 65
  2. ^ Susanne Sander: Careers and barriers. Landtag politicians of the FRG in the post-war period from 1946 to 1960 , Helmer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89741-163-0 , p. 233