Anna Ackermann

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Anna Ackermann (born June 29, 1872 in Stuhm , West Prussia as Anna Moldenhauer ; † October 13, 1955 in Leipzig-Lindenau ) was a German local politician ( DNVP ) who devoted herself particularly to the care of the elderly and the institutional system in Leipzig.

Life

She came from a Protestant West Prussian family of officials whose ancestors were lawyers and accountants. In 1909 she moved to Leipzig, where her husband worked as an imperial judge with a doctorate . In 1914 Anna Ackermann founded a local branch of the Frauendank association in Leipzig . In the First World War, her husband was so that they henceforth lived as a widow in Leipzig, where she became involved in local politics. She joined the DNVP and was elected to the Leipzig city council in 1919 as one of the first women. From 1922 to 1927 she was the only woman on the city council of the trade fair city of Leipzig. She was very active in social affairs and in disability welfare.

In 1933, she decided not to run again and resigned from the now National Socialist city council. Until 1935 she wrote a chronicle of the Leipzig Johannishospital . Most recently she lived in the deaconess house in Leipzig-Lindenau, where she died in 1955.

estate

Her scholarly, written part of her estate has been in the Leipzig City Archives since 2014 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Inventory overview of the Leipzig City Archives (pdf), p. 163