Annemarie from Harlem

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Annemarie von Harlem (born September 5, 1894 in Rostock , † March 15, 1983 in Bonn ) was a politician ( CDU ) and a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

education and profession

Annemarie von Harlem was born on September 15, 1894 in Rostock into a Protestant home. Her father was the secret chamber councilor Georg von Harlem (1866-1918), active in grand ducal services in Schwerin, and her mother Annemarie Witte (1870-1947), daughter of the Rostock factory owner Friedrich Witte . She attended the Lewinsk Higher Girls' School and from 1911 to 1913 the municipal Oberlyzeum Schwerin . On February 16, 1915, she obtained her secondary school leaving certificate in Güstrow . She studied German, classical philosophy and history in Munich for four semesters . Thereupon, from 1917 on, she represented a senior teacher who had been drafted into the war at the municipal college in Schwerin for a year and a half. Then von Harlem continued her studies in Rostock, where she matriculated on April 28, 1919 for German studies. During her studies, von Harlem got involved in society. She was the founding chairwoman of the Literary Association at the University of Rostock , which existed from 1919 to 1926. In 1919 she was also a member of the Association for University Reform and a member of its board. In the summer semester of 1920 she was enrolled in Heidelberg, but also took a position as private tutor in Helsingfors (Finland), where she was already working on her doctoral thesis. She kept this position even when she continued her German studies in Rostock between May 4, 1921 and March 16, 1922. After graduating, she worked as a teacher and became senior director of studies. In 1922 she received her doctorate with her dissertation “Herder's Doctrine of the People's Spirit. Starting points, conceptual content and application to history, language and literature ”for Dr. Phil. Exam subjects next to it were Latin and Modern History. From the summer semester (April 1, 1942), von Harlem, who was a full-time student instructor, worked as a Finnish lecturer at the University of Rostock , for which, in addition to language training, she also offered seminars and lectures on history, social legislation and the customs and traditions of the country . After 1945 she initially continued to teach at the university, but then became rector at the Rostock Lyceum.

politics

Annemarie von Harlem was active in the Rostock city council after 1945. In 1945 she was one of the founders of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

In the state elections in the Soviet zone in 1946 , she was elected to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the CDU. In the state parliament she was the second secretary of the presidium. In May 1947 she was elected as a member of the CDU regional executive committee.

It resisted the increasing pressure for conformity by the SED . With the dismissal of the democratically elected CDU party executive on December 20, 1947 by the occupation authorities, the basis for self-determined political work also ceased for Ms. von Harlem. She left the state parliament on September 6, 1948 and then fled west to Bielefeld. Her role in the state parliament was taken over by Dr. Willy Ruthenberg .

Further career

After their move, von Harlem was employed at the German School in Helsinki. In 1951 she was accepted into the Federal Foreign Service as a legation councilor and worked in the Central Department until 1954. Then worked from Harlem until 1959 in the commercial agency in Helsinki. After the start of her retirement in 1959, she was in charge of the “Federal Government's Guest Program” until 1963, within Department 601 at that time. Annemarie von Harlem ended her career as a first class consul.

After her service in Finland, von Harlem worked as a Finnish teacher at the linguistic institute of the University of Bonn for a few years.

Works

Honors

Annemarie von Harlem was the holder of the Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber: SBZ manual. 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , page 921.
  • Peter Köppen: The University of Rostock in the years of the revolutionary post-war crisis (1919-1923 / 24) . Dissertation University of Rostock 1969. 2 volumes. here: vol I p. 112; Volume II p. 73
  • Marianne Beese : studied women at the University of Rostock from 1909/10 to 1945 . S. 16, 150. In: Neumann, Rosina (Hrsg.): History of women's studies in Rostock - from the beginnings to the end of the Second World War . Rostock 1999.
  • Marianne Beese: Family, women's movement and society in Mecklenburg 1870-1920 . Rostock 1999. Note 181 on p. 469.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kersten Krüger: Women's studies in Rostock - reports from and about female academics . In: Rostock Studies on University History , Volume 9. University of Rostock 2010, p. 35, note 73. ( PDF 8.8 MB ).
  2. ↑ Bodo Keipke: Siegfried Witte . In: Zeitgeschichte Regional, Mitteilungen aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Volume 2, Issue 1, July 1998, pp. 52–56. Annemarie von Harlem's life dates can be found in the notes to the article.
  3. ↑ Birgit Juergens: Witte, Friedrich . In: Sabine Pettke (ed.): Biographisches Lexikon für Mecklenburg, Vol. 3, Lübeck 2001, ISBN 3-7950-3713-1 , p. 305
  4. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Harlem, Annemarie von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1983
Place of death Bonn