Alice Wosikowski

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Alice Wosikowski (born October 18, 1886 in Danzig ; † July 4, 1949 in Hamburg) was a German politician ( SPD / KPD ) and an opponent of National Socialism. She was a member of the Hamburg parliament .

Life

Alice Wosikowski, nee Ludwig, was a kindergarten teacher by profession . She married the lathe operator Wilhelm Wosikowski, who died in the First World War in 1914 . Wilhelm Wosikowski was reprimanded in 1911 because of his union activities, which amounted to a professional ban in Danzig, and therefore the family moved to Kiel in 1911 . Alice Wosikowski worked from 1915 to 1921 as a welfare worker for the Kiel magistrate. At that time she belonged to the SPD. She married the brother of her deceased husband, moved to Hamburg with her children in 1921 and became a member of the KPD . She worked as the head of the women's department in the KPD district leadership of Waterkant and was a member of the citizenship from 1927 to 1933. Wosikowski campaigned in particular for the rights of working women, especially women workers in the fishing industry.

Ehrenfeld (background on the left) in the back across the path: 1 pillow stone each from Wosikowski

As an opponent of the National Socialists, she was exposed to various reprisals : In 1933 and 1936/37 she was taken into protective custody and was interned in the Moringen concentration camp . From 1939 to 1941 she was held in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

For the next few years she worked as an accountant in a textile company, before taking on the post of deputy publishing director for the Hamburger Volkszeitung after the war . In April 1949 she was elected chairman of the newspaper section of the German employees' union . Her application for compensation was not granted.

On the Ohlsdorf cemetery is located in the Scholl Foundation Ehrenfeld , a common pillow stone for Alice Wosikowski and her daughter Irene Wosikowski , Planquadrat Bn. 73, No. 93.
Her daughter Irene Wosikowski (1910-1944) was a member of the Resistance in France was executed by the Nazis in Plötzensee on October 27, 1944.

literature

  • Hans Hesse: The Moringen Women's Concentration Camp 1933–1938. Edited by the camp community and the Moringen concentration camp memorial; Hürth 2002 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-8311-0633-9
  • 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
  • Ursel Hochmuth : Nobody and nothing is forgotten. Biograms and letters from Hamburg resistance fighters 1933-1945. A grove of honor documentation in text and images. Edited by the VVN - Bund der Antifaschisten eV Hamburg 2005 ISBN 3-89965-121-9
  • Wosikowski, Alice . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German communists. 1st edition 2004, p. 887.
  2. ↑ state archive Hamburg, reparation Act of 1948/1949 (AZ 351.11 Af.W.)
  3. ^ Pillow stones Wosikowski at genealogy.net
personal data
SURNAME Wosikowski, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludwig, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, KPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1949
Place of death Moringen