Berta Kroeger

Berta Maria Sophie Kröger (born Bischoff; born September 24, 1891 in Harburg ; † January 14, 1962 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the SPD . It belonged to the Prussian state parliament until 1933 and to the Hamburg parliament after 1945 .

Life

After attending primary school, Berta Kröger initially took a job as a domestic worker. In 1912 she joined the SPD . For the Social Democrats, the committed and courageous politician sat on the city council of Wilhelmsburg from 1919 to 1927 and also in the Harburg district council from 1919 to 1921 . From 1921 to 1933 Kröger was a member of the Prussian state parliament, constituency of Hanover- East. There she concentrated on the work in the legal committee and on advising on social policy issues. During the time of National Socialism, Kröger was forced to give up her engagement as an SPD politician. In order to earn a living, she opened a bread shop as a retailer in Wilhelmsburg. She continued to run this shop after the Second World War, when she had long since returned to politics.

The list of offices that Kröger took on after the Second World War is long. She became a member of the executive committee of the SPD district of Hamburg North-West. As a member of the Hamburg District Women's Committee, she campaigned for the interests of women. She also worked as the second chairwoman of the Hamburg workers' welfare organization and as a member of the board of trustees of the Wilhelmsburg hospital.

In addition, Kröger was a member of the Hamburg parliament from October 1946 , where she remained active until her death in January 1962. Her political priorities were prison issues and reparation issues. In 1957, the Social Democrat became a member of the Presidium of the Hamburg Parliament, and since 1952 she has been a member of the Citizens' Committee. She also served as a deputy to the prison authorities for 14 years. Within the party, she was a member of the executive committee of the SPD district of Hamburg-Nord-West.

She was married and had one child. 20 years after her death, a small square in Wilhelmsburg, located near the S-Bahn, was named after her, Berta-Kröger-Platz.

Web links

• Biography of Berta Kröger . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)