Eleonore Romberg

Eleonore Romberg (born June 19, 1923 in Munich - Ramersdorf ; † August 2, 2004 ) was a German sociologist , activist of the women's and peace movement and member of the Bavarian state parliament .

Life

She was the daughter of Anton Hagspiel and Antonie Hagspiel, b. Nines. Her childhood was overshadowed by severe blows of fate. Her father died very early and she rejected her stepfather. She had four more siblings. At the age of 14, Eleonore Hagspiel fell ill with polio:

With the stigma of disability, she was not accepted into the Association of German Girls . This exclusion was permanently inscribed in her memory, as was the death of her brother as a pilot in the German Air Force. Her stepfather's nine-month imprisonment, who was denounced in 1939 for making thoughtless political statements, also shaped her thinking .

After attending business school, she worked as a clerk in a printing house and in 1946 as a secretary of Alois Hundhammer , the former CSU - group leaders in the Bavarian parliament , without even having been member of the CSU. Her partner, the doctor Ernst-Heinrich Romberg, was the first chairman of the German Cultural Association . In 1951 Eleonore Hagspiel was dismissed without notice because she is said to have accompanied Ernst-Heinrich Romberg on a trip to the GDR. Then she returned to the profession she had learned. In 1953 she married Ernst-Heinrich Romberg. the marriage remained childless. After graduating from high school for talented students in 1961, she studied sociology , philosophy and psychology at the University of Munich until 1966 . From 1966 to 1971 Romberg was a lecturer at the Ellen Ammann School , then professor for sociology and community work at the Catholic Foundation University of Applied Sciences in Munich , into which the Ellen Ammann School was integrated.

She was a member since 1953, from 1971 to 1972 Vice President, then from 1972 to 1974 and from 1986 to 1992 President of the German section of the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom (IFFF). In 1976 she joined pro forma , since her by the Roman Catholic Church , a prohibition threatened.

From 1986 to 1990 she was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament (Independent Candidate), Open List of the Green Group and on the Group Executive Committee. As the age president she opened the session.

Awards

Eleonore Romberg was the recipient of the Bavarian Peace Prize of the German Peace Society , the medal Munich shines in silver from the city of Munich, and posthumously the Kerschensteiner medal from the city of Munich (2004).

2017: In the Freiham district of Munich, which is currently under construction, a street was named after her.

literature

• Krafft, Sybille: Between the fronts. Munich Women in War and Peace 1900–1950 , Munich 1995.
• Hertrampf, Susanne: Thinking Bavaria differently - for peace and freedom. The peace activist Eleonore Romberg in the Bavarian State Parliament (1986–1990), in: Ariadne 2014 / H. 66, pp. 24-31.
• Hertrampf, Susanne: Balancing act? German feminists between national identity, their location in Germany and transnational solidarity in the 19th and 20th centuries, in: Ariadne 2015 / H. 67-68, pp. 68-77.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hertrampf 2014, p. 24.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eleonore Romberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of the "Politeia" project ( Memento from February 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Biography on the IFFF website
• Obituary of the Greens parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Press release of the school u. Cultural Department of the City of Munich on the occasion of the award of the Kerschensteiner Medal in 2004
• Photo by Eleonore Romberg
• Finding aid on the estate of Eleonore Romberg in the possession of the Archive of the German Women's Movement Foundation
• Eleonore Romberg (June 19, 1923 to August 2, 2004). International Women's League for Peace and Freedom (IFFF) German Section, accessed on December 17, 2015 .