Clara Hacker

Clara Hacker (also Hacker-Törber ; born April 8, 1885 in Gadebusch ; † 1958 ) was a German politician ( SPD / USPD / SED ) and trade unionist . She was a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg (-Vorpommern) .

Life

Hacker attended the secondary girls' school in Gadebusch until she was 14, after which she attended a course in an agricultural household that specialized in poultry farming and beekeeping . She attended business school and then took up an office job, including as a stenographer. From 1906 it was organized as a union . She joined the Association of German Merchants (VDK) and was elected to the board of the VDK local association Schwerin . In October 1907 she went to Berlin as the editorial secretary of the Kaufmännische Rundschau , the trade union journal of the VDK . However, Hacker returned to Schwerin the following year.

In 1908 Hacker joined the SPD in Schwerin and was the first woman in Mecklenburg to become a member of the SPD. Until 1908, the participation of women in party politics was practically excluded by the Prussian Association Act, as this generally prohibited the membership of women in political parties. Hacker was also elected to the Mecklenburg SPD executive committee. She was a delegate of the union cartel and secretary in the AOK and on the party executive. In 1910 she delegated the SPD women's office to the party school in Berlin. As a participant in the winter course 1910/1911, she had lessons from Rosa Luxemburg and Franz Mehring, among others . She then worked as the editorial secretary of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung in Kiel . In January 1919, Hacker switched to the USPD.

From 1939 to 1943 Hacker was a clerk in the Schwerin Youth Welfare Office, and after the war ended in 1945 it was its head. In 1945 she joined the KPD and in 1946 became a member of the SED. In May 1946 Hacker became the union secretary of the women's secretariat in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state committee of the FDGB . From 1946 to 1950 she was a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg (-Vorpommern) and chairwoman of the social committee there.

literature

• Handbook for the Mecklenburg State Parliament. 1st electoral term . Mecklenburger-Verlag, Schwerin [1947], p. 81.
• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , pp. 341 and 919.
• Kyra T. Inachin : Parliamentarians. State politicians in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 1918 until today. State Center for Political Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (ed.), Scheunen-Verlag, Kückenshagen 2005, ISBN 3-938398-17-5 , p. 156f.
• Gudrun Wedel: Autobiographies of Women: A Lexicon . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20585-0 , p. 302f.

Web links

• Rolf Bartusel: Hacker, Clara . In: MV-Data. The biographical database .