Alma Maey

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Alma Maey (born December 23, 1897 in Langsee , † 1992 ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1946 to 1950 she was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament and from 1955 to 1960 she was chairwoman of the DFD district committee in Cottbus .

Life

Alma Maey was born as the sixth child of a village school teacher in the East Prussian village of Langsee. She attended elementary school and the lyceum . During the First World War she worked as a maid for an estate manager. In 1918 she joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

She married the educator Hermann Maey in 1923 and had a son in 1923, who fell during World War II . Because of her illegal resistance to National Socialism , she was incarcerated in the Köslin police prison. Seriously ill, she had to be hospitalized and thus escaped further reprisals. After her release she took part in anti-fascist leaflet campaigns in Berlin .

After the war she became a member of the SPD again in Berlin. Here she was involved in setting up the first community school. Maey went to Lübben in September 1945 , where she found work in the district council and was elected mayor in 1947 . In April 1946 she became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1946 to 1950 she was a member of the SED parliamentary group in the Brandenburg state parliament . She was then from 1951 to 1952 district administrator and from 1952 to 1955 chairwoman of the council of the Lübben district . Maey was from 1955 to October 1960, as the successor to Gertrud Nolte, chairwoman of the Cottbus district board of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD). She then worked as a manager of the Cottbus district hospital. Maey last lived as a veteran in Cottbus.

As a delegate, she took part in 1955 at the World Congress of the “International Mothers Committee for the Defense of Children against War” in Lausanne .

Awards and honors

literature

  • Handbook of the Landtag of Brandenburg . Märkische Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Potsdam 1947, p. 83.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XI. Edition of Degener's “Who is it?” . Arani, Berlin 1951, p. 400.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ High awards . In: Neues Deutschland , April 19, 1968, p. 2.
  2. ^ Central Committee of the SED congratulates Comrade Alma Maey on her 90th birthday . In: Neues Deutschland , December 23, 1987, p. 2.
  3. ^ Brigitte Schulz: Unforgotten fighter for peace and women's rights. Cottbus honorary citizen Alma Maey. In: Cottbuser Herzblatt. Volume 15, No. 12, December 2007 ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.3 MB), p. 10 (with picture). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dielinke-lausitz.de
personal data
SURNAME Maey, Alma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Langsee
DATE OF DEATH 1992