Elisabeth Roock
Elisabeth Roock (born April 2, 1919 in Mayen ; † August 18, 1995 ) was a German politician , trade unionist and honorary mayor of Solingen .
Life
The trained welfare worker Elisabeth Roock came to Solingen in 1945 as a war widow and single mother of two children. There she became a union member in 1948 and joined the SPD in 1954 . From 1950 Elisabeth Roock worked for the Solingen employment office for two decades. In addition to her employment in the employment agency, she also worked there on the staff council , temporarily chairing it. In 1970 she joined the Solingen City Council for the SPD, to which she was a member until 1984. As the first and so far only woman, Elisabeth Roock was Lord Mayor of Solingen from November 11, 1973 to May 22, 1975. Her term of office marked the 600th anniversary of the city's development (February 23, 1974), the inauguration of the 100 million DM to At that time the most expensive building construction project in the city (expansion of the city hospital) and the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1975 with the incorporation of Burg . A city nursing home, the Elisabeth-Roock-Haus, was named after her.
Elisabeth Roock did not attach any importance to the "in" in her title: "Because the Lord Mayor is only the Lord Mayor's wife."
“I help those on whose existence a shadow falls. Those in need and the less privileged should have an advocate in me. "
Honors
- December 17, 1983: Award of the Ring of Honor of the City of Solingen
- May 10, 1991: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
literature
- Who is who? The German Who's Who. XVIII. Edition, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-7973-0267-3 , p. 869.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Gallery of the Lord Mayors, Solingen 2012 ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14.0 MB)
- ↑ Honorary Ring Bearer of the City of Solingen ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 31, 2017
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
Web links
- Gallery of the Lord Mayors, Solingen 2012 ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14.0 MB)
- Elisabeth-Roock-Haus at www2.solingen.de
Friedrich Haumann (1894–1896) | August Dicke (1896–1928) | Hermann Schmidhäusler (1928–1930) | Josef Brisch (1930–1933) | Helmut Otto (1933–1937) | Rudolf Brückmann (1937–1945) | Oskar Rieß (1945) | Josef Brisch (1945–1946) | Albert Müller (1946) | Gerhard Hebborn (1946–1948) | Eugen Maurer (1948–1955) | Karl Haberland (1955–1961) | Otto Voos (1961–1964) | Heinz Dunkel (1964–1972) | Elisabeth Roock (1973–1975) | Otto Voos (1975-1976) | Georg Schlößer (1976–1984) | Gerd Kaimer (1984-1997) | Ulrich Uibel (1997–1999) | Franz Haug (1999–2009) | Norbert Feith (2009–2015) | Tim Kurzbach (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roock, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), trade unionist and Lord Mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mayen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1995 |