Charlotte Armbruster

Charlotte Armbruster (born November 7, 1886 in Stuttgart , † September 23, 1970 in Stuttgart) was a German local politician in Stuttgart during the time of the Weimar Republic and the early Federal Republic.

Life

Armbruster grew up in simple circumstances in the railway village in the Nordbahnhof district. After elementary school, a year of housekeeping and a commercial apprenticeship, she worked for various companies. Since this activity did not meet her expectations, however, she went to Berlin in 1905 to take courses there to qualify as a welfare worker. She then returned to Stuttgart and worked as a welfare worker for the city administration in Stuttgart West. There she took care of sick and poor families. During the First World War she worked on the Aid Committee for the Poor. In 1918 Queen Charlotte of Württemberg awarded her the Charlottenkreuz for particularly outstanding service . In 1919 Charlotte Armbruster was elected to the local council for the Center Party . In addition to her, there were three other councilors at the time. Until 1933 she was re-elected to the committee. She was very critical of the Nazi regime. Information campaigns with the help of leaflets barely escaped arrest. In 1936, Charlotte Armbruster contracted open tuberculosis while on duty . Due to illness, she was retired in 1943 and evacuated to Leutkirch in 1944. In 1945 she returned to Stuttgart.

From May 1946 until the end of 1959, when she retired for reasons of age, she was again a city councilor. She especially knew where to find money taps for social issues. In addition to her work in local politics, Charlotte Armbruster helped build the Hildegardishaus. She collected the necessary funds and looked after the house on a voluntary basis for 15 years. She also participated in the rebuilding of the Catholic station mission, which was banned by the rulers of the Third Reich in 1939. In addition, she was chairman of the Catholic Association for the Protection of Girls.

Charlotte Armbruster died on September 23, 1970 after a brief illness.

Awards

In 1956 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon , and in 1959 she received from Pope Johannes XXIII. the Pro ecclesia et pontifice award for exemplary church work.

On March 18, 2004, a street in the Bad Cannstatt / Steinhaldenfeld district was named after her by the city of Stuttgart.

Web links

• Elisabeth Skrzypek: Charlotte Armbruster (1886-1970), published on April 19, 2018 in: Stadtarchiv Stuttgart, Stadtlexikon Stuttgart

literature

• Maja Riepl-Schmidt : Charlotte Armbruster. The "personified carer of the parish council" . In: Maja Riepl-Schmidt (Hrsg.): Against the overcooked and ironed out life. Women's emancipation in Stuttgart since 1800 . Silberburg, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-925344-64-0 , p. 278-284 .
• City archive Stuttgart (ed.): Rubble women of local politics. Women in the Stuttgart municipal council 1945–1960 . Stuttgart 2013, pp. 7-10