Berta Wirthel

Berta Wirthel (born Berta Fischer ; born January 13, 1900 in Lübeck , † April 10, 1979 ibid) was a German seamstress and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Berta Wirthel was the daughter of a bricklayer from Lübeck. She had eleven siblings. After graduating from primary school, she learned the trade of a seamstress. She continued her education through courses at the community college and political courses. In 1921 she married Wilhelm Wirthel. She had two children, one of whom died early. In 1925 she joined the SPD. She took over tasks in the workers' welfare and headed the SPD district Holstentor-Nord. In 1929 she was the first woman to be elected to the board of directors of the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital in Lübeck. In the same year she moved with her family into what was then the union building on Johannisstrasse . She and her husband took on caretaker duties there. In 1933 the family was expelled from the union building by SA and SS units; her husband became unemployed. Berta Wirthel earned a living for the family as a tailor. After the end of World War II , she rejoined the SPD in 1945. She belonged to the district and district executive committee. In 1946 she was elected to the Lübeck citizenship , the city council. She was a member of the local parliament until 1974. From 1951 to 1955, Berta Wirthel was an honorary senator and in this function she headed the housing office. She was also a member of other committees. From January 25, 1954 to August 6, 1954, she was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament , into which she had moved as a successor. Together with Elly Linden , she encouraged the trade unionist and journalist Ingeborg Sommer to take on political offices.

Honors

The Hanseatic City of Lübeck honored Bertha Wirthel in 1955 with the plaque of honor from the Lübeck Senate. In 1960 she received the Freiherr vom Stein Medal of the State of Schleswig-Holstein and in 1971 the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. In 1990, a street in Berta-Wirthel-Ring was named in her honor in the Red Lion building area in Lübeck . In 2005, the city of Lübeck paid tribute to the city's deserving daughter as part of the exhibition Women in Lübeck History , for which Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter , the bishop of the Holstein-Lübeck district, had taken over the patronage.

literature

• Christine Lipp: Berta Wirthel - committed politician and senator in Lübeck. In: Women in Lübeck History. Women's Office of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (ed.). Lübeck 2005, p. 56 f.
• Maria Zachow-Ortmann: Berta Wirthel. In: Schleswig-Holstein women politicians in the post-war period. Resumes. Sabine Jebens-Ibs, Maria Zachow-Ortmann (eds.). Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Kiel 1994 ISBN 3-88312-048-0 , pp. 55–57
• Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 251 ff

Web links

• Berta Wirthel in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein