Ella Ehlers
Ella Ehlers (born May 30, 1904 in Dresden , † April 9, 1985 in Bremen ) was a kindergarten teacher and a German politician.
Life
Ella Schimpf comes from a socialist working-class family from Dresden and Leipzig. She learned the profession of kindergarten teacher. From 1924 to 1928 she worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Barkenhoff in Worpswede , after the artist Heinrich Vogeler had left the children's home to the Red Aid after the First World War . Here she met Adolf Ehler's (1898–1978) secretary of the Red Aid in 1926 . They get married and went to Berlin in 1928 . Both Ehlers were members of the KPD .
From 1929 to 1931 Ehlers managed a children's home run by the Red Aid in Thuringia . After the NSDAP came to power , Red Aid, like all organizations of the labor movement, was banned and broken up.
In 1929, Adolf Ehlers was expelled from the KPD as a right wing . The couple moved back to Bremen. Ella Ehlers attended commercial school in Bremen and became an office clerk in a coffee company. The couple joined the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD) - a left-wing split from the SPD - in 1932 . The conspiratorial meetings of the SAPD took place in the Ehlers' apartment. Ella Ehlers led illegal courier services to the still existing groups of the SAPD and the resistance during the time of National Socialism .
After the liberation of 1945, the Ehlers initially rejoined the KPD. You switched to the SPD in 1946. Adolf Ehlers became senator in 1946 and, from 1959, also mayor of Bremen. Ella Ehlers was involved in setting up several aid organizations a. a. at the Bremen workers' aid organization and for various social institutions and homes. From 1964 she was chairman of the state committee of workers' welfare (AWO) in Bremen.
Honors
- Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1978
- The Ella-Ehlers-Haus , a social center in Gröpelingen in the west of Bremen, was named after her.
- The Marie Juchacz plaque of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt was awarded to her in 1980.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Regina Contzen: Ehlers, Ella, b. Abuse . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.
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SURNAME | Ehlers, Ella |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD, SADP, SPD) |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1904 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1985 |
Place of death | Bremen |