Elisabeth Zillken
Elisabeth Zillken (born July 8, 1888 in Wallerfangen ; † November 28, 1980 in Dortmund ) was a German politician ( center and CDU ).
Life and work
After attending elementary school in Wallerfangen and the higher commercial school for girls in Cologne , Zillken, who was of the Roman Catholic faith, completed an internship in a jewelry trading company in Mainz from 1906 to 1908 . She then completed a course of study at the Cologne Commercial College as a qualified commercial teacher .
Zillken, a close colleague of Agnes Neuhaus , was Secretary General of the Catholic Welfare Association for Girls, Women and Children in Dortmund from 1916 to 1932 . Anna Zillken , also a close colleague of Neuhaus, was her sister.
MPs
From 1919 to 1933 Elisabeth Zillken was a member of the Dortmund city council for the center. From 1930 to 1933 she was a member of the central parliamentary group of the Reichstag . From 1945 she belonged to the Dortmund council for the CDU; there she left in 1964.
In 1946/47 she was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Honors
- 1956: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Ilona H. Winkelhausen: Zillken, Elisabeth , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 660f.
- Gabriele Lautenschläger : Zillken, Elisabeth. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 1590-1591.
Web links
- Literature by and about Elisabeth Zillken in the catalog of the German National Library
- Elisabeth Zillken in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Elisabeth Zillken at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zillken, Elisabeth |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (center, CDU), MdR, MdL |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1888 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Catfish catch |
DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1980 |
Place of death | Dortmund |