Carola Dauber

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Carola Dauber (born November 16, 1898 in Kaiserslautern ; † October 3, 1985 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Carola Dauber was born in Kaiserslautern as the youngest of three daughters of the businessman Friedrich Wilhelm Schneider and his wife Louise, née Kuby. She attended elementary school and the higher female educational institution (HWB) in Kaiserslautern. After secondary school, she finished school, was a housewife and helped her father in the business, because her mother had died early in 1901. On May 22nd, 1920 she married the teacher Walter Dauber, in 1921 her son Wolfgang was born. Son and father volunteered as soldiers, the son died in October 1941, her husband has been missing since June 1944. In addition, Carola Dauber experienced the destruction of Kaiserslautern by the bombing. The Dauber family had lived in the Kaiserslautern districts of Morlautern and Erzhütten and then in Kaiserslautern itself. Carola Dauber moved to Trippstadt in 1945 and to Schopp in 1961 . From there she came back to the Alex-Müller-Heim in Kaiserslautern in 1980. She said of her life: "The stroke of fate made me poor in myself, but made me rich so that I could help others."

politics

Carola Dauber became a member of the SPD in 1946 and the first local chairwoman of the SPD in Trippstadt after the end of National Socialism . She was a member of the SPD district executive committee of the Palatinate and chairwoman of the SPD women's group in Kaiserslautern. She was involved in local politics as a member of the Trippstadt municipal council and from 1951 to 1960 as a member of the Kaiserslautern district council and the district committee .

On October 5, 1951, she replaced Willy Odenthal , who had left the state parliament, and remained a member of the state parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate until 1963 . In the state parliament she was a member of the committee for social policy and issues relating to displaced persons. Otto Schmidt , State Secretary, described Carola Dauber as the “social conscience of the parliamentary group”. In 1959 she was a member of the 3rd Federal Assembly .

After the Second World War, Carola Dauber joined the Association of War Disabled, War Survivors and Social Pensioners (VdK) in Rhineland-Palatinate and worked here as a state survivor . In 1963/64 she became state chairwoman of the VdK in Rhineland-Palatinate, after she had previously been deputy state chairwoman.

Together with Pastor Theodor Friedrich, who assisted the German prisoners of war in France on behalf of the Evangelical Church in Germany , she campaigned for their release or improvement of detention and for the care of their relatives. As part of her commitment to the work of war grave welfare, she visited war graves cemeteries in seven European countries in 1960 and 1961, and there, on behalf of VdK Germany, set fire to Pope Pius XII's. donated "lamp of brotherhood".

Already as a teenager she was fascinated by Bertha von Suttner's “Die Waffen Nieder” and inspired by encounters with Martin Niemöller , Helmut Gollwitzer , Karl Groß and Heinz Wilhelmy, she campaigned for peace and international understanding and against rearmament. Within the Protestant regional church of the Palatinate, she supported the group “Women dare peace”.

Her social commitment also went to the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO), of which she was district chairman for ten years after 1949. Carola Dauber took care of the distribution of parcels to people in need, helped set up sewing rooms, took care of the refugee families, arranged recreational stays for mothers, children and the elderly and took care of the expansion of children's and mothers' homes in Rhineland - Palatinate. Around 1960 she co-founded the SOS Children's Village in Eisenberg and was made an honorary member of the SOS Children's Village Association due to her commitment.

Honors

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p. 125.
  • Paul, Roland: Committed to peace and social justice: Carola Dauber. In: Wilhelm, Sissi and Fuhrmann, Marliese (ed.): Women's history - women's stories from Kaiserslautern. Otterbach: Arbogast, 1994. ISBN 3-87022-197-6 , pp. 86-91.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul, Roland: Committed to peace and social justice: Carola Dauber
  2. ^ Website of the SPD Trippstadt , accessed on February 7, 2011.
  3. ↑ Paul, Roland: Committed to Peace and Social Justice: Carola Dauber, p. 89.
  4. ^ History of the social association VdK Rhineland-Palatinate. (PDF; 69 kB), p. 2.
  5. ^ Paul, Roland: Committed to peace and social justice: Carola Dauber. P. 89.
  6. ↑ cf. Paul, Roland: Committed to peace and social justice: Carola Dauber. P. 89.
  7. ^ Paul, Roland: Committed to peace and social justice: Carola Dauber. P. 90.
personal data
SURNAME Dauber, Carola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1985
Place of death Kaiserslautern