Carla Woldering
Carla Woldering (born July 14, 1893 in Celle ; † March 12, 1983 in Georgsmarienhütte ) was a German politician ( CDU ). She was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1954 to 1967 .
Carla Woldering, b. Hugo was the daughter of an umbrella manufacturer from Celle and grew up in Osnabrück , where the family moved after the company's failure in 1898. Woldering graduated from the Lyceum in Osnabrück and boarding school in Belgium, after which she spent two years in Holland and France. In 1913 she married the later bank director Josef Woldering and had four children with him, including the museum director Irmgard Woldering .
During the Second World War , Carla Woldering supported the Nazi regime critical communication between the Osnabrück Bishop Hermann Wilhelm Berning and the Wroclaw Archbishop Adolf Bertram , who was her uncle, through courier services . Her Catholic family is described as "reliably critical of the regime"; her son, who later became a lawyer, Gottfried Woldering, made contact with the Dutch resistance against the Nazi occupation as a young Wehrmacht soldier. In 1945 Carla Woldering was appointed to the Osnabrück Denazification Committee by the British occupying forces .
In 1946 she was a founding member of the local CDU and from 1948 on the city council of Osnabrück, where she headed the school and culture committee for four legislative periods. From the second to the fifth electoral term (1954 to 1967) she was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, where she campaigned for local cultural issues. Woldering received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class , in 1963 . A street in Osnabrück has been named after her since 2012.
literature
- Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 411.
Web links
- Joachim Dierks: Councilwoman from the very beginning. Street studies: Carla Woldering even noticed Adenauer as "the resolute lady from Osnabrück". In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , October 11, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Niebaum: Hans Calmeyer. A “different German” in the 20th century. Frank and Timme, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86596-376-5 , p. 36 and p. 46 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woldering, Carla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Celle |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1983 |
| Place of death | Georgsmarienhütte |