Elise Kesselbeck

Elise Rosette Sophie Kesselbeck (born November 28, 1870 in Hanover ; † July 10, 1956 in Bremen ) was a German politician (SPD, KPD) and women's rights activist .

biography

Kesselbeck was the daughter of social democratic parents. In 1892 she moved to Bremen and worked as a maid . She was involved in the servant movement from around 1900. In 1902 she married the travel agent Alfred Carl Kesselbeck. She was active in the Social Democratic Party Association. Towards the end of the First World War she went to the Bremen Left , which constituted itself in November 1918 as the International Communist Local Group Bremen . The workers 'and soldiers' council in Bremen convened a women's assembly in November 1918 to enforce women's suffrage . Kesselbeck (KPD) and Anna Stiegler ( USPD ) were elected to the office of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council. After the crackdown on the Bremen Soviet Republic on February 4, 1919, she organized the funeral service for the victims in the union building.

She represented the KPD in the constituent Bremen National Assembly from 1919/20 and left - like all KPD members - the body prematurely. In June 1920 she was elected to the Bremen citizenship , to which she belonged until November 1923. She represented social problems and women's issues, denounced abuses in a children's home and wanted socially graded gas prices. She was also chairwoman of the women's and children's choir in the workers' choir until 1933.

Kesselbeck lived in Bremer - Walle until 1944 ; Bombed out, she lived outside the city until 1949. Because of her political engagement, she was an important woman in the Bremen women's movement .

literature

• Elisabeth Hannover-Drück : Kesselbeck, Elise Rosette Sophie, b. Hartmann . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Bremer Bürgerzeitung from November 11, 1918 and January 4, 1919.

Web link

• Women's museum, portrait