Anna Schmidt (politician, 1889)
Anna Bertha Marie Schmidt (born March 15, 1889 in Berlin ; † January 17, 1955 there ), née Ehrhardt, was a member of the Berlin city council from 1947 to 1950 .
Life
Anna Schmidt, daughter of a typesetter, trained as an accountant after elementary school, but then worked mainly as a seamstress in home work. She was a member of the SPD in the Weimar Republic and held various functions, as her son Erich Schmidt (1910–2008) recalled:
- "As a women's representative, secretary and board member of our 31st party department, as an active member of the workers' welfare, voluntary social welfare worker and helper of the welfare office, she was one of the respected pillars of the local proletarian establishment."
After the war , Anna Schmidt continued her involvement in the SPD Prenzlauer Berg and worked in the AWO and in the works council. From October 1946 to December 1948 she was a member of the Prenzlauer Berg District Assembly . She moved up for Ella Kay in January 1947 in the Berlin city council .
In 1948 it was no longer possible to vote in East Berlin . City councilors from the Soviet sector were, however, still allowed to exercise their mandate, provided they kept their place of residence in East Berlin. Anna Schmidt moved to West Berlin in 1950 and then lost her mandate.
Private
Anna Ehrhardt married the glove maker Paul Schmidt in 1909. Her husband died in 1945 of blood poisoning caused by an injury while fetching water in the last days of the war. They had a daughter and a son, Erich Schmidt , who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933, released by mistake and emigrated to the USA . He did not return after the war either and only saw his mother again on a visit to New York in 1949.
literature
- Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 234-235 (331 pages).
- Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0240-2 , pp. 216-218.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register StA Berlin VIIa, No. 815/1889
- ↑ Erich Schmidt : My youth in Greater Berlin: Triumph and misery of the workers' movement 1918-1933. Donat-Verlag, Bremen 1988, page 29.
- ↑ Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin Social Democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, page 218.
- ^ Marriage register StA Friedrichshagen, No. 94/1909
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ehrhardt, Anna Bertha Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Member of the Berlin City Council (1947–1950) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 1955 |
| Place of death | Berlin |