Cilly Shepherd

Cilly Schäfer (2nd from left) with Katharina Roth (2nd from right)

Cäcilie "Cilly" Barbara Schäfer , née Tannenberg (born January 25, 1898 in Friedberg , † January 18, 1981 in Marburg ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life

Cilly Schäfer was the daughter of the shoemaker Friedrich August Gustav Tannenberg and his wife Elisa née Klein. She had four siblings. After finishing school, she completed an apprenticeship as a tailor . After the end of the First World War, she became involved in the Free Socialist Youth and with the Friends of Nature . In 1920 she also became a member of the USPD and after the unification of the KPD. On June 25, 1921, in Friedberg, she married Jakob Schaefer , whom she had met at the Naturfreunde and who was a member of the Hessian state parliament for the KPD from 1926 . She herself was elected as a KPD member of the Hessian state parliament in 1931.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis it was taken for 13 months in detention. After her release, she moved to Marburg with her husband, who was also imprisoned in the meantime . There she tried to organize the illegal work of the banned KPD. In 1940, a communist meeting of officials disguised as a birthday party took place in the shepherd's house in Marburg. In 1944 she was arrested again and initially deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there to the Oranienburg concentration camp, where she was obliged to do forced labor in an armaments factory. She survived the death marches of the last days of the war and returned to Marburg after the liberation from National Socialism . There she worked in the non-partisan women's committee and in the KPD, for which she entered the Marburg city council in 1951, and in the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime . After the reconstitution of the DKP in 1968, it became a member of this party.

A street in the Stadtwald district of Marburg is named after Cilly Schäfer .

literature

• Ingrid Langer : Twelve forgotten women. The female members of the parliament of the People's State of Hesse, their political work - their everyday life - their lives . dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1989, p. 524 ff.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 322.
• Gabriel B. Möller, Ulrich Schneider: Antifascism using the example of a life. Cilly Schäfer on her 80th birthday . Marburg 1978.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 739.
• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 224.

Web links

• Schaefer, Cäcilie (Cilly) . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Schaefer, Cilly. Hessian biography. (As of January 18, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).