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Edith Hoereth-Menge (born February 7, 1888 in Eichstätt , † April 18, 1960 in Munich ) was a German local politician ( SPD ). She was one of the most famous personalities of the West German peace movement .

Hoereth-Menge belonged to the peace movement even before the First World War. After the end of the Second World War, she was a member of the World Peace Council and the Peace Committee of the Federal Republic .

As a member of the SPD, she was a member of the Munich City Council for many years. Because of her engagement against nuclear weapons she was expelled from the party in 1952 after 30 years of membership. Then she founded the Social Community of Disenfranchised (SdE) and took part in the election of the Lord Mayor in March 1952. She received 2.2 percent of the vote.

From November 10, 1959 to April 8, 1960, she and other members of the Peace Committee were on trial in Düsseldorf. The Federal Prosecutor charged her with being a ringleader in an anti-constitutional organization on the peace committee. She was given a suspended sentence.

Honors

She was awarded the Clara Zetkin Medal for her great contribution to the preservation of peace and, shortly before her death, the Golden Medal of the World Peace Council.

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• Edith Hoereth-Menge died , In: Neues Deutschland, 15th year, No. 109, p. 2
• Obituary for E. Hoereth-Menge , In: Neues Deutschland, 15th year, No. 112, p. 2
• Brigitte Schuchard among others: women. Freedom. Peace. 100 years of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom WILPF , IFFF Munich, 2015
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Justice injustice in the Cold War. The criminalization of the West German peace movement in the Düsseldorf trial in 1959/60 . With an introduction by Heinrich Hannover . Contributions by Walter Ammann, Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Walter Diehl, Heinrich Hannover, Rudolf Hirsch , Friedrich Karl Kaul , Diether Posser and Denis Nowell Pritt . PapyRossa, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89438-341-0 .