Elise Bartels

Elise Bartels

Elise Bartels (born Bicker ; born May 13, 1880 in Hildesheim , † October 25, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German social democratic politician.

Life

Bartels attended elementary and middle school and then did an apprenticeship in the textile industry. She worked as a maid and factory worker before she married in 1901. She had two children with her husband, and Elise Bartels became a housewife. In 1908 she joined the SPD and in 1915 the free trade unions . She was active in the youth movement and in welfare during the First World War . In 1920 she was a co-founder and first chairwoman (until 1922) of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in Hildesheim. Between 1919 and 1925 she was a city councilor in Hildesheim. From 1922 to 1925 Bartels was a member of the central party committee of the SPD. From August 1922 until her death from an embolism, she was a member of the German Reichstag .

Honors, miscellaneous

A street in Lübeck and a street and a kindergarten in Hildesheim are named after her.

Otto Grotewohl (Prime Minister of the GDR from 1949 to 1964) replaced Bartels in the Reichstag.

literature

• Joachim Raffert : Elise Bartels, Hildesheimer in the German Reichstag. Worker, housewife, MP . In: Hildesheim Yearbook. Volume 67, 1995, ISSN  0944-3045 , pp. 211-256.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elise Bartels in the catalog of the German National Library
• Elise Bartels in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Elise Bartels' biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Elise Bartels' biography . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)
• History of the AWO Hildesheim