Elisabeth Muhr-Jordan

Elisabeth Muhr-Jordan , also Else Muhr-Jordan and Elsa Muhr-Jordan (born October 27, 1892 in Vienna ; † January 14, 1971 there ) was an Austrian teacher , politician ( NSDAP ) and Gaufrauenschaftsleiterin .

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Elisabeth Muhr-Jordan was born as Elisabeth Muhr in Vienna on October 27, 1892. Her ancestors were farmers who came from South Moravia on their father's side . Her father was considered a supporter of Georg von Schönerer , as well as the Greater German idea . Her real first name Elisabeth is often given as Else or Elsa, which is why she is also known by these two first names. After completing general schooling and attending commercial school , she passed the state examination for teaching stenography and art singing, before teaching in these subjects from 1913 to 1915 at the girls' college of the Vienna Women's Employment Association . In 1915 Muhr married and from the date of marriage exclusively carried the double name Muhr-Jordan. The marriage, which resulted in a daughter, was divorced in 1927; however, she kept the double name.

In 1928 Muhr-Jordan, meanwhile in her mid-30s, resumed her professional activity and became the office manager in a timber company. In personnel questionnaires, however, she always stated her occupation as either a household or a teacher. On April 1, 1932, Muhr-Jordans officially joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), in which she was appointed Gau managing director in October of the same year. A few months later she took over the management of the illegal Gaufrauenschaft for Vienna. After she had been sentenced to three months in prison in September 1935, she returned to her traditional position of the Gaufrauschaftsleitung in Vienna immediately after her release and was then appointed illegal state womanhood leader in 1936. As such, as she had already done in her hometown, she should set up an organization throughout Austria. In the same year, Muhr-Jordan met the Reichsfrauenführer Gertrud Scholtz-Klink in Germany , before she undertook an extensive journey through the Austrian federal states until 1937 and appointed Gaufrauenschaftsleiterin responsible for the respective areas of Austria. In 1937 she also ran a training course for Austrian women officials. It was not until 1938 that Muhr-Jordans was officially appointed Gaufrauenschaftsleiterin of the Nazi women's association in Vienna, which made her a full-time party functionary and retained this position until the end of the Second World War .

Immediately after the end of the war, Muhr-Jordan was arrested again and was taken to Altmünster prison in Upper Austria on June 20, 1945 . Almost two years later, on April 24, 1947, she was transferred to the Salzburg Police Department for forwarding to the Austrian court. Subsequently, she was sentenced to several years in prison, which she served in the prisons of Altmünster and Glasenbach . Afterwards Muhr-Jordan probably returned to her homeland, where she died on January 14, 1971 at the age of 78.

literature

• Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 2: I-O. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 2317–2318.
• Johanna Gehmacher : "Völkische Women's Movement". German national and national socialist gender policy . Döcker , Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85115-246-8 .
• The German woman. The magazine of the National Socialist women of Austria , various issues

Web links

• Information on Else Muhr on anno.onb.ac.at
• Information on Elsa Muhr on anno.onb.ac.at
• Information on Muhr-Jordan on anno.onb.ac.at