Anna Stiegler

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Anna Sophie Marie Auguste Stiegler , b. Behrend , divorced Vogt , (born April 21, 1881 in Penzlin ; † June 23, 1963 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

biography

youth

Anna Behrend was born as the daughter of a Mecklenburg farm worker. Her career aspiration was to be a teacher, but this was not financially possible due to her modest background. Therefore, at a young age, she first became a housemaid and nurse in Schwerin and Hamburg . There she met the tailor Konrad Vogt. Their daughter Anna Marie Sophie Wilhelmine Vogt was born in 1902, the couple married in 1903 and moved to his home town of Blumenthal .

politics

Her husband's involvement in the labor movement prompted her to take part in the SPD party congress and the Third Social Democratic Women's Conference in Bremen in 1904 , which motivated her to join the SPD in 1905. Her daughter died that same year. From 1908 onwards she intensified her political work. Some time later she met the typographer Carl Friedrich Stiegler, who was ten years her junior and with whom she lived from 1912. Anna Vogt divorced her husband and took the surname Stiegler when they married in 1916.

In 1917 she joined the USPD . After the introduction of women's suffrage , Anna Stiegler was elected to the Bremen parliament in 1918, to which she was a member up to and including 1933, and from 1922 again for the SPD.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the Bremen citizenship was dissolved under the Nazi regime in March 1933 and the SPD banned in July 1933, it was one of those who resisted National Socialism by illegally continuing party activities , with activities focused on making families more political Assisting prisoners and illegally producing and distributing leaflets .

In November 1934, after a spy had been smuggled into the resistance group, 150 members of the SPD and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold were arrested, including Anna Stiegler and her husband.

Stiegler was sentenced to five years in prison. After this time, in which she was incarcerated in the prisons of Bremen and Lübeck, she was held in " protective custody " in the Ravensbrück concentration camp from December 1939 . Determined to be the “parlor” or “block elder” , she tried to alleviate the fate of her fellow prisoners, whom she called the “Angel of Ravensbrück”. In April 1945, she survived the death march ordered by the camp administration as the front approached, and found refuge in a farmhouse.

New beginning after 1945

In 1946 she returned to Bremen and learned that her husband, who had been transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after a two-year prison sentence , had been murdered by the SS during the last days of the war while being transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp .

From 1946 until shortly before her death in 1963 she was an SPD member of the Bremen citizenship . In 1947 she was elected Vice-President of the City Council. She was the spokeswoman for the deputation for welfare. She advocated the liberalization of abortion according to Section 218 of the Criminal Code , free access to means of contraception and modern methods of caring for girls at risk. She was a staunch social politician and was particularly committed to women's rights. She was a brave woman but not free from human weaknesses; younger Social Democrats, who did not necessarily take their line, had a hard time getting seats next to her.

Stiegler was an important woman in the Bremen women's movement . In 1946, together with Agnes Heineken , Anna Klara Fischer , Käthe Popall and Irmgard Enderle, she was a founding member and board member of the Bremen Women's Committee , a socially recognized, non-partisan and non-denominational umbrella organization of women's organizations from all areas of society in the state of Bremen.

In the SPD, she later headed the SPD women's group. After 1945 she co-founded the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) Bremen and in 1953 the Bremer Heimstiftung , which maintains homes for the elderly. She was active in peace policy and was involved in the fight against atomic death , with which the SPD also successfully prevented the armed forces from being equipped with nuclear weapons at the end of the 1950s.

Honors

literature

  • Horst Adamietz: The first chapter. Bremen parliamentarian 1945-1950. Bremen citizenship, Bremen 1975.
  • Renate Meyer-Braun: Stiegler, Anna Sophie Marie Auguste, b. Boring . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
  • Renate Meyer-Braun: Women in Parliament! Bremen 1991.

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personal data
SURNAME Stiegler, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behrend, Anna Sophie Marie Auguste (full name); Behrend, Anna; Vogt, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German state politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Penzlin
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1963
Place of death Bremen