Elisabeth Ostermeier

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Elisabeth Ostermeier (born May 9, 1913 in Kanzlershof , Harburg district , † December 6, 2002 in Hamburg ) was a politician of the SPD and a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Elisabeth Ostermeier

Life

Elisabeth Ostermeier did an apprenticeship as a saleswoman in the slaughterhouse of a production cooperative after she left the Free Secular School in Harburg at the age of 14. She worked there until she was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933. She became politically active at an early age, also because of her father the Social Democrat Rudolf Gottschalk, after whom a street in Hamburg-Eißendorf was named. At the age of 13 she became a member of the Falken and the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ), and in 1931 she joined the SPD.

In December 1933 she found a job in the bakery of the social democrat and former editor of the Harburger Volksblatt, Ernst Tessloff . The bakery, which was only reopened because the Tessloff brothers had lost their work base in the editorial offices of the banned social democratic press, became a central place of resistance in the greater Harburg area. During this time she got her driver's license and delivered bread to social democratic customers in Veddel , Wilhelmsburg and Harburg . These measures kept the political friends in touch. In 1935 she married and moved to Minden with her husband . On December 18, 1936, she was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to Hildesheim prison for several months. During the Nazi regime, she had a daughter (born in 1938) and a son (born in 1940).

After the Second World War , Elisabeth Ostermeier belonged to the first democratic citizenship in over 14 years. She held this seat for 32 years. It was not until the 9th electoral term (1978) that it could no longer be elected. In 1974 the then mayor of Hamburg asked her if she would accept a post as senator. She refused, because by that time it had already been decided to say goodbye to state politics. During this time she was particularly committed to the interests of women. For example, she gave a lecture at the SPD women's conference in Bad Hersfeld (October 1955) with the title: “The economic problems of single women”.

Her quote found its way into the media: We women should be pretty, young and also smart if we want to move into the citizenship. Who actually asks men to look good? Most of our town hall colleagues are really not like Adonis either .

In addition to her political work in parliament and as a housewife, from 1954 to 1970 she was a member of the executive board of the " Union of Food, Pleasure and Restaurants ". In this role she was responsible for the area of ​​women, youth and vocational training. Even after she left active parliamentary activities, she was still active within her local group and in senior work for the SPD. For example, in 1979 she initiated the order of the Hamburg Senate to set up a senior citizens' representative body.

Elisabeth Ostermeier was buried in Hamburg-Eißendorf in the Harburg New Cemetery.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning for SPD politician , in Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 11, 2002.
  2. ↑ library.fes.de ( pdf ; 3.7 MB)
  3. ↑ Provincial Seniors' Advisory Board - Annual Report 2005 (p. 14/15) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.2 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lsb-hamburg.de
  4. ↑ Illustration and location of the tombstone at garten-der-frauen.de


personal data
SURNAME Ostermeier, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Damkowski, Martha; Bröker, Marta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag and victims of the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kanzlershof , then Harburg district
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2002
Place of death Hamburg