Antonie Wohlgemuth

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Antonie Wohlgemuth (born May 18, 1891 in Neufahrwasser ; † April 12, 1984 in Berlin ) was a politician ( SPD ). In Nazism it provided resistance .

Life

Antonie (called Toni) Wohlgemuth, daughter of the tax master Franz Pilkiewicz and his wife Johanna, attended the girls' middle school in Neustadt and learned an agricultural profession in the monastery of St. Mary after the early death of her father. Until she got married in 1912, she trained as a nurse in Gdansk and worked at the Gdansk shipyard . Widowed in 1917, lost through accidents her two children, she returned to professional life one, graduated from the Social Women's School of Alice Salomon training for commercial work and again worked at the Gdansk shipyard. In 1918 she was a member of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council of West Prussia . Toni Wohngemuth, a member of the SPD since 1914, was a member of the SPD party executive committee in Danzig, for a time the SPD party executive committee for East Prussia and an SPD member of the Marienburg city parliament. From 1919 to 1933 she was in the SPD faction of the Prussian state parliament , in 1920 she also sat briefly in the constituent assembly of the Free City of Danzig .

After her arrest and expulsion from Gdansk in 1933, she lived in Berlin during the Nazi era and worked as an unskilled worker in various companies. In Berlin she worked illegally in the SPD resistance group around Alwin Brandes .

When the SPD was re-established in 1945, she was elected to the central committee of the SPD and was committed to founding women's committees in Berlin and the Soviet zone of occupation, as well as establishing the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD). Toni Wohlgemuth supported the merger of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in 1946 and was elected to the first SED party executive. Professionally, she was director of the social welfare office of the German Economic Commission (DWK) until 1949. She opposed the discrediting of social democratic traditions in the SED and received no more SED functions after 1948. Until 1952 she worked as the main department head in the Berlin Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB) or as the main department head at the Central Office for Horse Performance Testing and then retired from professional life for health reasons.

In 1976 she was awarded the Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit and in 1981 the Karl Marx Order . Your urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

literature

  • Christl Wickert : Our chosen ones. Social democratic women in the German Reichstag and in the Prussian Landtag 1919 to 1933. Sovex, Göttingen 1986
  • Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0240-2 , page 257 ff.
  • Handbooks of the Prussian Parliament

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , 1./2. May 1976, p. 5
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , 2./3. May 1981, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Wohlgemuth, Antonie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pilkiewicz, Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH New fairway
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1984
Place of death Berlin