Anna Katharina Reinartz

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Anna Katharina (Käthe) Reinartz (née Lude ; * February 18, 1915 in Stolberg (Rhld.) ; † July 31, 1995 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a functionary of the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO).

Life

In 1915, Käthe was born as the only daughter of the businessman and later first district president of Aachen Ludwig Philipp Lude and Anna Lüth. Due to her father's political activities, she came into contact with the goals of German social democracy and the resistance movement against the Nazi regime at an early age . It also helped persecuted Social Democrats to flee to neighboring countries. When her father was arrested and imprisoned in 1936, she took over the management of her father's grocery store. As a result, she was forced to leave the grammar school in Aachen, which she was attending at the time.

Between 1941 and June 1942, Käthe Lude provided Russian, Polish, Ukrainian and French forced laborers and prisoners of war, as well as politically persecuted people and Jewish citizens with free food. She was under constant surveillance by the Gestapo . In 1943 she married the businessman and machine fitter Hans Reinartz. She had a son with him.

After 1945, Käthe Reinartz and her mother founded the local workers' welfare association in Stolberg. The social democrat was a member of the Stolberg City Council and several committees at the end of the 1960s.

Honors

  • Käthe Reinartz was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her social commitment .
  • In 2018 the Käthe-Reinartz-Straße in Stollberg was named after her

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Two Romans, a painter and three ladies Aachener Zeitung from November 8, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Reinartz, Anna Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinartz, Käthe (nickname); Lude, Anna Katharina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolberg (Rhineland)
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1995
Place of death Stolberg (Rhineland)