Annie Kienast
Annie Kienast (born September 15, 1897 in Hamburg ; † September 3, 1984 ibid) was a trade unionist, Hamburg politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and a member of the Hamburg Parliament .
Life
Annie Kienast came from a social democratic working class family. She grew up with five siblings and learned the trade of textile saleswoman. She worked as a saleswoman and later as a department manager. She was politically active at the age of 21 and became a member of the trade union and the SPD in 1918. Anni Kienast was actively involved in the Central Association of Handlers (ZdH), later in its successor organization, the Central Association of Employees(ZdA). As early as February 1919, she was on the organizing committee of the first strike by Hamburg department store employees, which was about higher wages, equal pay for equal work for men and women, and shop closing times at 7 p.m. The six day strike was successful, but Anni Kienast lost her job as a result of her union involvement. She then got a job at the ZdA, for which she worked from 1919 to 1921. She then worked for the consumer, construction and savings association “Production” (Pro) and was a member of the general works council from 1922 to 1933. She was also one of the few female works council members in Hamburg. As a trade unionist, she campaigned primarily for the interests of women. After the takeover of the Nazi regime, she was fired in 1934 for political reasons in the Pro. Only after a year did she find another job as a saleswoman.
She sat for the Social Democratic Party after the Nazi era from October 1946 to October 1949 as a member of the Hamburg parliament. In addition, she was again organized as a union: she had been a senior functionary of the German Employees' Union (DAG) since it was founded and was a member of the main board until 1957. In 1982 she rejected the Federal Cross of Merit, instead receiving the Hamburg Medal for loyal work in service of the people . Annie-Kienast-Straße in the Langenhorn district was named after her in 2016 , where she had also lived at 7 Diekmoorweg . Her sister Elisabeth lived at Diekmoorweg 8.
Annie Kienast wasn't married.
The association Garten der Frauen e. V. left on the gravestone of Herbert Reimers (1920–1943) and her parents Dorothea Kienast, geb. Ratzeburg (1864–1950), and Hermann Kienast (1859–1951) incorporate the names and dates of Annie Kienast and her sister Elisabeth Kienast (1898–1990) and set them up in 2016 in the women's garden at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in their memory.
literature
- Inge Grolle , Rita Bake : “I practiced juggling with three balls.” Women in the Hamburg citizenship from 1946 to 1993. Verlag Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg 1995, pp. 357–358, ISBN 3-930802-01-5 (im Commissioned by the State Center for Political Education Hamburg ). (Source of the article)
- Kienast, Anni . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 212-213 .
Web links
- Anni Kienast on garten-der-frauen.de
- Anni Kienast on hamburg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (ed.): Hamburgische Biografie, Personenlexikon, Volume 2, Wallstein-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, p. 212
- ^ Resolution on Annie-Kienast-Strasse by the Hamburg-Nord district assembly
- ↑ Proof ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the medal ceremony
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kienast, Annie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd September 1984 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |