Annemarie Schellenberg

Annemarie Schellenberg (born June 1, 1906 in Mannheim ; † February 6, 1995 in Berlin ), née Geiler, was a German politician ( SPD ).

Annemarie Geiler was a daughter of the Hessian Prime Minister Karl Geiler (1878-1953) and attended a grammar school . She graduated from high school and from 1925 studied law at the universities of Heidelberg , Munich and Berlin . She became a trainee lawyer and obtained her doctorate in Dr. jur. With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Geiler was reprimanded and dismissed from civil service. From 1936 she worked as an archivist .

Grave of the married couple Annemarie and Ernst Schellenberg

After the Second World War , Geiler joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1945 and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) the following year . In 1947 she became the head of the secretariat of the Standing Committee of the German People's Congress . In the same year she married Ernst Schellenberg, who later became a member of the Bundestag, and switched to the SPD. She did voluntary work at the Berlin Higher Administrative Court and the Berlin Regional Social Court . In the Berlin election in 1963 , Schellenberg was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which she belonged until 1967. She was a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Sender Free Berlin (SFB).

Schellenberg was buried at the Dahlem forest cemetery.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 323.