Clara Young Lunch

Anna Clara Jung Mittag , b. Haueisen, also Klara Jung Mittag , (born October 28, 1881 in Meerane ; † March 4, 1961 in Bremen ) was a Bremen politician ( SPD ).

biography

Young noon lost her parents early. As the oldest of four siblings, she had to look after them. She learned the profession of cook and in 1906 married the Leipzig master maker Richard Jung Mittag. Both moved to Bremen in 1908 and had four children. Her husband was already involved in the SPD and in the trade union, and so she too joined the SPD in 1908. She took care of socio-political issues independently. During the First World War she was active in the Central Aid Committee of the Red Cross .

After the war, when women's suffrage had prevailed in 1919 , she was elected to Bremen's constituent national assembly from 1919 to 1920. In the following years she represented the SPD from 1920 to 1933 in the Bremen citizenship . She participated in the deputation for the health service. The main focus of their political activity was the concrete, tangible social policy through which the living conditions of the economically weak could be improved. She was politically and friendly with Helene and Wilhelm Kaisen .

At the same time she was active for the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) and was one of the founders of the AWO in Bremen. She also worked in the Vorwärts consumer cooperative in Bremen from 1919 on, among other things, on the board of directors and the supervisory board.

In the spring of 1933 there was a brief arrest by the National Socialists . She then lived politically withdrawn in Bremen from 1933 to 1945. Her son Willi Jung Mittag was active in the resistance against National Socialism in the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization . He was therefore executed on November 20, 1944.

After the Second World War , women from the very beginning, such as Charlotte Niehaus , Ella Ehlers , Clara Jung Mittag, Helene Kaisen and Anna Stiegler, re-established the AWO in Bremen, which was banned in 1933. Young lunch together with her husband run the school camp Am Weisse Berg in Etelsen . Again she was active in the SPD women's work and also in 1952 on the board of the new Ohlenhof neighborhood house in Bremen- Gröpelingen and in a warming hall , as the forerunners of day care centers for the elderly were also called.

Young noon was an important force in the Bremen women's movement .

Honors

• The Klara-Jung Mittag-Strasse in Bremen- Obervieland was named after her.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Volume II to II, Edition Temmen , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .
• Renate Meyer-Braun (ed.): Women in Parliament! Portraits of female MPs in the Bremen citizenship . Hauschild, Bremen 1991, ISBN 3-926598-44-1 .
• Brigitte Bents-Rippel: Young Noon, Clara, b. Hauelsen . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0
• Gerd Franke: Two Bauhaus members in the fight against fascism and war , in: Scientific journal of the University of Architecture and Building Weimar, Weimar 1979, issue 4/5

Web links

Commons : Clara Jung Mittag  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Portrait women museum