Elisabeth Loesche

Elisabeth Loesche (born April 24, 1896 in Bautzen , † September 1, 1967 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( CDU , DP ).

biography

Loesche was the daughter of an officer. She attended the higher girls' school in Leipzig and a socio-educational women's school. She then worked as a kindergarten teacher. She became a member of the Confessing Church in Leipzig in the 1930s .

After the Second World War , she became a member of the CDU in the Soviet zone in 1945 . She was elected to the Leipzig party executive and headed the CDU women's committee.

In 1948 she moved to Bremen, where her husband got a job at the University of Education in Bremen . In Bremen she also took over the leadership of the CDU women's committee and was also active in the CDU working group on housing construction and housing issues. She was also a representative of the CDU in the Bremen Women's Committee (BFA).

From 1951 to 1959 she was a member of the Bremen citizenship and from 1957 to 1959 she was secretary on the citizenship board. She was active in the deputation for housing. In 1952 the BFA founded the Bremen women's dormitory association , of which she became chairwoman. She and Elly Ley (FDP) succeeded in realizing a women's dormitory in Schwachhausen by 1954 . In 1953 she ran for the Bundestag on a hopeless place on the CDU state list.

She did not agree with the red-black-yellow coalition of the SPD, CDU and FDP (1955–1959, Senate Kaisen V ) in Bremen. In July 1959, a few months before the general election, she left the CDU parliamentary group together with Friedrich Thielen (later NPD ) and Cäcilie Triebel . They switched to the right-wing German Party (DP). She ran in vain in the township elections in 1959 for the list of the DP in an unpromising position.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Renate Meyer-Braun: Loesche, Elisabeth . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .