Clémence Budow

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Clémence Eleonore Budow , b. Stolterfoth, (born November 25, 1908 in Riga ; † May 10, 1995 in Hamburg ) was a German radio pioneer and politician ( German party ).

Life and work

Memorial stone for Clémence Budow in the garden of the women of the Ohlsdorf cemetery

Budow, who came from the Baltic States, graduated from high school in Hamburg and then trained as a secretary. At the end of the 1920s, she was hired by the director of the broadcasting company NORAG as his secretary. Through this activity she got the opportunity to produce the first women’s radio program in Germany together with the director’s wife. From this activity a journalistic activity developed, as a result of which she became editor-in-chief of a housewives newspaper.

After her husband fell in World War II , Clémence Budow developed into a pacifist. After the war, from 1956 to 1970 she was chairwoman of the Hamburg regional association in the Association of Female Employees and also co-founder of the Hamburg regional women’s council , of which she chaired for many years. Professionally, from 1954 she was head of the welfare department and the youth recreation center of the German Aid Community Hamburg . She was also a member of the exhibition committee of the consumer fair You and your world . Until 1978 she was a member of the board of the Hamburg regional association of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge , in which she had previously been a public relations officer from 1961 to 1973. From 1977 to 1982 she was chairwoman of the Association for Women's Interests.

politics

Budow became involved in the German party from 1950 onwards , of which she headed the regional women's committee in Hamburg. From 1951 to 1954 Budow was a member of the Hamburg-Nord district assembly . In the 1953 mayor elections she won the direct mandate in constituency 44 for the Hamburg bloc , an electoral alliance made up of the DP, CDU , FDP and BHE . The township elected her to the second federal assembly , which in 1954 re-elected Theodor Heuss as federal president . In the citizenry, she spoke out in favor of financial equality for nurses and carers. When the Hamburg bloc disbanded before the 1957 state elections and the parties involved ran again individually, the list of the German party failed to pass the 5 percent hurdle . At the state party congress on November 28, 1957, she, who had been a member of the state executive committee of the DP since 1952, declared her resignation from the German party and justified this with the "disastrous influence" of previous members of the Free People's Party , who joined the DP in January 1957 had merged.

Honors

Budow was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976 and the First Class Cross of Merit in 1985 for her commitment to women's politics . In addition, she received the golden pins of honor from the Association of Returnees and the Reich Association of War Victims as well as the pins of honor from the Association of Female Employees and the Association of Hamburg Women's Organizations. In her memory a stone was set for her in the spiral of memories in the garden of the women of the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

literature

Web links

  • Budow, b. Stolterfoht, Clémence . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Baack to Bychel] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 170 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 568 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Clémence Budow" , at www.hamburg.de, accessed on October 4, 2018.
  2. ^ "Grimaldi was guest of honor" in: Hamburger Abendblatt from October 4, 1978, accessed on October 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b "Verdienstkreuz" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 9, 1985, accessed on October 4, 2018.
  4. ^ "Thirty templates in sixty minutes" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt dated June 14, 1956, accessed on October 4, 2018.
  5. ^ "Resignation from the DP" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of November 29, 1957, accessed on October 4, 2018.
  6. ^ "How we hear" in: Hamburger Abendblatt from July 8, 1976, accessed on October 4, 2018.
  7. ^ Stones of Remembrance - Garden of Women.
personal data
SURNAME Budow, Clémence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Budow, Clémence Eleonore (full name); Stolterfoth, Clémence Eleonore (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German broadcasting pioneer and politician (German Party), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1995
Place of death Hamburg