Elfriede Kuhr

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Elfriede Kuhr (born September 20, 1891 in Berlin ; † October 5, 1966 there ), née Schlinke , was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Elfriede Schlinke attended a reform high school and passed the Abitur . From 1911 she studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and passed the state examination in 1917 . In the following year she got her license to practice medicine and from 1922 ran a private practice in Münster , at the same time she worked as a senior doctor at the Westfälische Provinzial-Lebensversicherungsanstalt . In 1927, Kuhr joined the Association of Public Life Insurance Institutions in Berlin as chief physician . With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1934 she was dismissed for political reasons. From 1935 to 1945 she worked in her own medical practice in Berlin-Neukölln .

After the Second World War , in 1945 Kuhr became a deputy medical officer in the Neukölln district and joined the CDU. In the first Berlin election in 1946 , she was elected to the district assembly of Neukölln, where she immediately became chairwoman of the CDU parliamentary group. After the 1950 election , she was elected district councilor for health care in Neukölln in March 1951. In the 1954 election she was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, but resigned from parliament as a district councilor in March 1955. In the following election in 1958 , she was re-elected to the House of Representatives, but remained in parliament because she resigned as district councilor in Neukölln in February 1959 for reasons of age. In 1963, at the age of 72, she left parliament for good.

Elfriede-Kuhr-Strasse in Berlin-Rudow was named in her honor in 1996 .

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  1. ^ Elfriede-Kuhr-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )