Centa Hafenbrädl

Centa Hafenbrädl (born May 3, 1894 in Übersee am Chiemsee , † December 29, 1973 in Haar ) was a Munich local politician and city ​​councilor .

Life

After the First World War , she worked in various organizations of the free welfare and from 1921 worked in the Ministry of Social Affairs as a consultant for women's work. After the Second World War , she became head of the Munich emergency aid . In 1947 she moved to the Munich City Council for the CSU , of which she was a member until 1970.

She was a co-referee in the social and personnel department as well as a longstanding board member of the Caritas Association .

Hafenbrädl belonged to the conservative wing of her party. Their politics were shaped by the commitment to moral rigor and strict anti-communism . So she spoke out against employing female conductors in Munich's trams because they would flirt with the drivers - in their understanding, inevitably male. On their initiative, the city council issued the first restricted area ordinance for Munich city center in 1956 . This ban, which was later unlawfully repealed by the BGH , shifted prostitution to residential areas outside the city center, which triggered numerous conflicts and complaints.

When in 1969 a street was to be named after the first Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner , Hafenbrädl refused. a. on the grounds that she “still well” remembers how Eisner's troops penetrated the Catholic Leohaus and destroyed everything that had never actually happened.

A street in the Freiham district of Munich is named after Hafenbrädl .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Concave mirror . In: Der Spiegel . No.  42 , 1950 ( online ).
2. ↑ Prostitutes. Good as sheep . In: Der Spiegel . No.  7 , 1964, pp. 40 ( online ).
3. ^ Municipalities / Munich: Much misery . In: Der Spiegel . No.  6 , 1969, p. 72 ( online ).