Bertha Heimberg

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Bertha Heimberg (born July 3, 1894 in Madfeld (now Brilon ), † April 28, 1966 in Essen ) was a German free economist , economic politician and trade unionist .

Life

Bertha Heimberg came from a long -established Madfeld merchant family of Jewish origin. Her father was Heinemann Heimberg (Jewish name: Chajim ben Seew ; 1857-1931), her mother Thelina, née Frankenberg (1862-1901). Four of her twelve siblings and step-siblings were murdered during the Nazi era; traces of one sister are lost in the Auschwitz concentration camp, one brother was deported to an unknown destination. Bertha's brother Siegfried Heimberg is one of the surviving siblings . From 1946 to 1965 he was chairman of the regional association of the Jewish communities of Westphalia-Lippe and the Jewish community of Dortmund .

During the First World War , Bertha Heimberg worked as a secretary in the trade union federation of employees (GDA). Through her trade union work and GDA chairman Wilhelm Beckmann , she came into contact with the free economy movement Silvio Gesells .

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After the end of the First World War, she joined Silvio Gesell's Free Trade Association (FWB) . In 1929 she was elected managing director of the FWB, in 1930 she gave the funeral oration for Silvio Gesell.

With the seizure of power by the National Socialists , she became unsustainable for the federal executive as managing director due to her rejection of the decision of the FWB to want to help solve the social problem under the new national government and the Reich Chancellor. In 1934, after the FWB was dissolved, she joined the resistance. She secretly organized meetings of former members of the Freiwirtschaftsbund and distributed leaflets and appeals. When the Secret State Police (Gestapo) discovered her in 1938 , she fled into exile in England. From there she tried to continue to resist.

In 1948 she returned to Germany to campaign for the establishment of a liberal, non-exploitative economic order.

Publications

  • Money in the retort . Lecture at Bayerischer Rundfunk on June 7, 1957; self-published in written form (Essen 1957)
  • The natural economic order through free land and free money . The outline of an exploitation-free liberal economic renewal based on the work of Silvio Gesell. Verlag der Freiwirtschaftsbewegung, 1959.
  • Outline of an exploitation-free liberal economic renewal based on the work of Silvio Gesell . Self-published: Essen [no year] (probably 1959)
  • Warning letters from the free economy movement FdFF to state personalities of the world . On the 100th birthday of Silvio Gesell on March 17, 1962. Verlag der Freiwirtschaftsbewegung, 1962.

literature

  • Werner Onken : Silvio Gesell and the natural economic order . Lütjenburg 1999, p. 120-122 .
  • Günter Bartsch: The NWO movement Silvio Gesells. Historical floor plan 1891 - 1992/93 . Volume 1 in the series Studies on the Natural Economic Order . Gauke. Specialized publisher for social economy: Lütjenburg 1994. ISBN 3-87998-481-6 . P. 123 ( Bertha Heimberg in the underground )
  • Werner Onken : Bertha Heimberg - appreciation of an indomitable fighter for a fairer world . In: Journal The Third Way , 4/1998. P. 19f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More information on the Heimberg family history can be found in the epigraphic database of the Steinheim Institute; here: Chajim ben Seew (Heinemann Heimberg)
  2. ^ Günter Bartsch: The NWO movement Silvio Gesells. Historical floor plan 1891 - 1992/93 . Volume 1 in the series Studies on the Natural Economic Order . Gauke. Specialized publisher for social economy: Lütjenburg 1994. p. 123
  3. ^ Werner Onken (editor): Free economic library - Scientific archive (Varel location). Varel 1986. p. 69
personal data
SURNAME Heimberg, Bertha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German free economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Madfeld (now Brilon )
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1966
Place of death eat