Elke Steinhöfel

Elke Steinhöfel (born December 13, 1940 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ) in Bremen . She was a member of the Bremen citizenship and from 1999 to 2005 government director of the social administration in Bremen.

biography

education and profession

Steinhöfel completed an evening grammar school in Bremen. After graduating from high school, she studied law at the University of Bremen from 1973 to 1980 , which she completed with the assessor exam. She was then deputy head of the social welfare office in Bremen as senior government councilor. After serving as a member of parliament from 1987 to 1999, she was government director and head of the two departments for economic assistance and assistance for adults at the Social Services Office in Bremen until 2005. In 2013 she received her doctorate from the University of Bremen. phil. with work: The persecution of so-called anti-social people during the Nazi period in Bremen using the example of the Hashude Housing Welfare Agency .

politics

Steinhöfel has been a member of the SPD since 1967. Among other things, she was chairwoman of the SPD local club in Schwachhausen and the local club Oberneuland in the 1980s. She performed various other functions in the SPD Bremen such as in the subdistrict and state executive. Her work focused on social and cultural policy.

She was a member of the Bremen citizenship from 1987 to 1999 and worked there in various deputations and committees, such as the social and cultural deputation , the budget committee and parliamentary committee of the SPD. From 1991 to 1995 she was a member of the Committee for the Promotion of Equal Rights for Women. This is where the first Bremen law on equality for women in the public sector came into being.

After leaving parliament, Steinhöfel became involved in the Oberneuland Advisory Board primarily for the expansion of kindergarten places such as places for children under three years of age as well as facilities for the accommodation of children and young people.

Private

Elke Steinhöfel is the mother of the lawyer Joachim Steinhöfel .

Fonts

• The Hashude Housing Agency . The Nazi “anti-social policy” and the Bremen welfare organization (= publications from the state archive of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Vol. 71). State Archive Bremen, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-925729-71-3 (also dissertation, University of Bremen, 2013).

literature

• Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .

supporting documents

1. ↑ Katrin Wilkens: Rüpel out of passion. In: Die Zeit , May 16, 2007.
2. ↑ Presentation to Elke Gundel: Elke Steinhöfel works on a repressed chapter of the Bremen Nazi crimes: The history of the Hashude re-education camp. The apartment as a prison. In: Weser-Kurier , January 22, 2015.