Clara Klabunde

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Clara Klabunde , b. Gentner (born December 30, 1906 in Hamburg ; † July 7, 1994 ibid) was a German lawyer and the first German to hold the rank of court president .

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Clara Klabunde was born as the daughter of the businessman Hermann Gentner and his wife Bertha. Her father died during the First World War . The mother taught at prisons in Hamburg. Clara Gentner initially received private tuition for two years. She then attended the St. Johannis convent school from 1915 to 1919 and a secondary school from 1920 to 1926, which she graduated with the Abitur. Gentner then studied law at the University of Hamburg . During her studies she joined the Socialist Student Union . There she met Wilhelm Drexelius , with whom she later opened a law firm. Here she also made the acquaintance of Erich Klabunde , whom she married in late 1933 or in November 1934.

After completing her first legal state examination on November 6, 1929, Gentner did a traineeship with the Hamburg judicial administration. She passed the Grand State Examination on March 25, 1933 with the grade “good”.

National Socialism

Presumably because of the political situation after the handover to the National Socialists , Klabunde applied three days after the state examination to be admitted to the bar and thus to retire from the public service. Their employment with the City of Hamburg ended on May 13, 1933. During the Nazi era , women were only able to work as lawyers to a limited extent from 1935 onwards due to the changed lawyer regulations. What Clara Klabunde did during these years is insufficiently documented. She initially took on mandates for people who were politically persecuted by the National Socialists. She also ran her own law firm with Wilhelm Drexelius, based at Neuen Wall  54. Later, she probably worked temporarily with her husband Erich Klabunde in Berlin.

Lawyer in Hamburg

Gravestone Klabunde in the women's garden

After the end of the Second World War , the Klabunde couple moved back to Hamburg, where Erich Klabunde became a member of the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD and later a member of the German Bundestag . Clara Klabunde worked here, again together with Drexelius, as a lawyer. In addition, she participated in several committees: in addition to the “Leading Committee for Denazification”, the “Advisory Committee for the Press”, the “Appeal Committee for Detention Compensation” and the “Preliminary Committee for Existence Support” belonged to her sphere of activity. She was also a member of the “Association for Female Lawyers and Economists” and worked as a board member in the “Hamburg Lawyers Association”.

Klabundeweg in Hamburg-Bergstedt

On December 1, 1952, Klabunde, who had been widowed since 1950, was the first woman at the court to be appointed regional labor court director of the newly established third chamber at the Hamburg regional labor court . Since there was no federal labor court at that time , decisions made there had final effect. Klabunde was also a member of the disciplinary senate for judges and had been a member of the Hamburg Constitutional Court since 1953 . On September 1, 1966, the Hamburg Senate appointed her President of the State Labor Court. Klabunde was the first woman in Germany to achieve such a position. Her service as president of the court ended in 1971. She ended her work in the Hamburg Constitutional Court in 1978.

Clara Klabunde died in Hamburg in 1988, she was buried next to her husband in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , planquadrat Z 11, 169 (south of Norderstrasse ). The tombstone has been in the women's garden cemetery area since July 2020 .

Honors

The Hamburg Senate awarded her the “ Medal for Faithful Work in the Service of the People ” in silver for her achievements .

Today the Klabundeweg in Hamburg-Bergstedt bears the name of Clara and Erich Klabunde.

literature

Web links

Commons : Clara Klabunde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ according to: Holger Martens: Klabunde, Clara . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 215 .
  2. ↑ according to: Holger Martens: Klabunde, Erich. In: Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie. Lexicon of persons. Vol. 2, Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-8353-0099-6 , p. 216.
  3. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Klabunde, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gentner, Clara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and the first German with the rank of court president
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1994
Place of death Hamburg