Anne Marie Heiler

Anne Marie Heiler , née Ostermann , (born March 21, 1889 in Brackwede , today Bielefeld , † December 17, 1979 in Marburg ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Heiler was married to the theologian and religious scholar Friedrich Heiler since 1921 , who also supported her in her political career. She initially worked as a primary school teacher and later as a high school teacher. After the wedding, she was a research assistant for her husband's magazine Die Hochkirche . After the Second World War , she worked as the head of the youth welfare office in Marburg.

politics

Already in the context of the election to the Weimar National Assembly , Heiler was politically committed to educating women about their new right to vote. In 1946 she, who was a co-founder of the Marburg CDU in 1945, was elected to the city council of Marburg , where she remained until 1951. In 1949 she became a member of the first Bundestag via the state list of the Hessian CDU . She was considered an emancipated and self-confident woman who was faced with a lot of resistance in the CDU.

She ran again in the subsequent federal election in 1953 , but was pushed back from third to 13th place on the state list a few weeks before the election without a reason being given to her. Her husband wrote about this in a letter: "Anne Marie is currently having a hard time in the CDU, as they are trying to push her against the wall because of her opposition to the patriarchy."

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 320.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hessian Bibliography
2. ↑ Letters to the Editor. In: Die Zeit , No. 7/2002. To Nina Grunenberg : Guys, do you want to hang out forever? No. 5/2002.