Anna Nemitz

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Anna Nemitz
Honorary grave, Potsdamer Chaussee 75, at the Zehlendorf forest cemetery
New tombstone for Anna Nemitz and Kurt Nemitz , since 2015

Anna Nemitz (born January 3, 1873 in Bromberg ; † October 6, 1962 in Berlin ; born Anna Voigt ) was a politician of the SPD .

Life

Nemitz came from a large working-class family. She was active in the SPD since 1894 and worked first as a domestic servant and then as a tailor. She had married early; Their daughter Elfriede Nemitz , who was born in 1893 and who later also went into politics as a social democrat, came from the marriage . Both Anna Nemitz and her husband, who is also politically active, were harassed by employers for their commitment to the Bromberg workers, so that the family moved to the Ruhr area in 1908. In the same year Anna Nemitz became the first woman to become a member of the SPD district executive in Bochum . In 1911 she moved to Berlin and also spent the time of the First World War there. As a politically left-wing woman, she joined the newly formed USPD in 1917 and in 1918 was the only woman to become a member of the workers 'and soldiers' council of the city of Charlottenburg . From March 1919 she was an assessor on the party's central leadership. In 1919 and 1920 she also served as city councilor for Charlottenburg, which was incorporated into Berlin in 1920. In June 1920 she was elected to the Reichstag , to which she belonged continuously until 1933. In September 1922, the USPD was reunited with the SPD and Nemitz was now a member of the SPD executive committee. She was also a member of the main committee of the SPD for workers' welfare.

Then, in 1933, persecution by the National Socialists began. Nemitz was living in Berlin-Köpenick at the time and escaped the riots of the SA during the Köpenick Blood Week in June by hiding. She also kept the extensive estate of Julius Moses , also an SPD member of the Reichstag and, through his marriage to Elfriede Nemitz, her son-in-law, hidden in her boiler room. As a Jew, Moses was deported to Theresienstadt and died there in 1942.

In 1945 Nemitz played a key role in the re-establishment of the SPD in Köpenick. In the same year she became party secretary of the SPD. In 1946 she was elected to the Berlin parliament as a city councilor. On her 80th birthday, on January 3, 1953, the Mayor of Berlin, Ernst Reuter, made her the first woman in the 133-year history of this award to be a city ​​elder of Berlin . She died at the age of 89 a year after the Wall was built in the eastern part of the city; Their ashes were then transferred to the western part and buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery; the then West Berlin mayor and later Chancellor Willy Brandt gave her funeral address. The grave is one of the honor graves of the State of Berlin . In Berlin, a street named after her also commemorates her.

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SURNAME Nemitz, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voigt, Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR, MdA
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1962
Place of death Berlin