Elise Augustat
Elise Augustat (née Queck ; * July 20, 1889 in Waldkeim , East Prussia ; † March 13, 1940 in Lägerdorf , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and a member of the Reichstag .
Life
After finishing school in 1904, Augustat worked in various positions as a maid . She joined the SPD in 1916 , the USPD in 1919 and finally the KPD in 1921. In 1923 she became a member of the Lägerdorfer ADGB action committee. From May 1924 to June 1931 she was the community representative for the KPD in Lägerdorf. In November 1926 she took part in the 1st Reich Conference of the Red Women's and Girls' Union. From 1929 she was a member of the KPD district leadership Wasserkante and there head of the women's department. In 1929 she was elected a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Provincial Parliament. She also represented the KPD from November 1929 to September 1930 in the Steinburger Kreisag . In September 1930 she was elected to the Reichstag for the KPD , to which she belonged until 1933. In November she moved to Hamburg-Barmbek . In 1931/32 she stayed for political training in the Soviet Union . As early as the end of 1932, together with other members of the district leadership, she was preparing the party's continued work after a possible ban.
Augustat was arrested in Itzehoe for the first time briefly in May 1933 and then in September 1933 "for preparation for high treason " and taken into " protective custody " until January 18, 1934 . Their proceedings, which were pending at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court , ended in an acquittal on January 15, 1934. She then returned to Lägerdorf. Augustat, who had followed her husband to Büdesheim in the Eifel, who had been obliged to do the construction on the Siegfried Line , was arrested again in September 1939 and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . Released in December 1939 due to serious illness, Augustat died on March 13, 1940 in Lägerdorf of the consequences of his imprisonment.
Honors
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Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Augustat in the Berlin district of Tiergarten on the corner of Scheidemannstrasse and Platz der Republik . A stumbling block was laid in front of her previous apartment on Naumannplatz in Hamburg-Dulsberg in her memory. In 2015 a memorial plaque was put up in Lägerdorf to commemorate the local unrest of 1923.
literature
- Wolfgang Reschke, Reimer Möller: Elise Augustat - communist member of the Reichstag from Lägerdorf. A search for clues . In: Steinburger Jahrbuch , Volume 44 (2000), pp. 271-279.
- Augustat, Elise . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , pp. 75-76.
Web links
- Elise Augustat in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Unrest in Lägerdorf 1923: Workers' protest violently suppressed
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tanja Zukowski: The panel reminds of the Lägerdorf riots. In: Norddeutsche Rundschau . November 29, 2015, accessed February 2, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Augustat, Elise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Queck, Elise (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Forest germ |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1940 |
| Place of death | Lägerdorf |