Ella Kay
Ella Kay (born December 16, 1895 in Berlin ; † February 3, 1988 there ) was a local politician and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .
Life
Kay attended elementary school and completed a commercial apprenticeship. From 1919 she was a member of the SPD and was particularly involved in workers' welfare . From 1928 she attended the social policy seminar of the German University of Politics in Berlin.
From 1927 to 1933 she worked as the head of the day care unit in the youth welfare office in Prenzlauer Berg . She was dismissed from office by the National Socialists in 1933, persecuted and placed under police supervision. She fought illegally in the group around Max Fechner and mainly supported politically persecuted people.
In 1945 she resumed her work in the Prenzlauer Berg youth welfare office. In 1947 she was elected mayor of this district, but soon afterwards was deposed by the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD). From 1955 until her resignation in 1962, Ella Kay served as Senator for Youth and Sport. From 1958 to 1968 she was a member of the West Berlin House of Representatives . In 1965 Ella Kay became city elder . She lived (1955) on Lowise-Reuter-Ring in Berlin-Britz .
Her long-time colleague (1959–1962) and political colleague Ilse Reichel-Koß chose Ella Kay as her political role model and continued her ideas of “taking sides for the youth” as senator for family, youth and sport from 1971 to 1981.
Honors
- Kay was buried in an honorary grave of the State of Berlin in the park cemetery Neukölln in the department 105-414.
- The Ella-Kay-Straße in Ernst-Thälmann-Park in Prenzlauer Berg was named in 1993 after her.
- She was awarded the Marie Juchacz plaque from the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in 1969.
See also
literature
- Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 137 f . (331 pages).
- Ilse Reichel-Koß , Ursula Beul (Hrsg.): Ella Kay and the youth welfare office of the new type. An office where children get justice. Juventa, Weinheim and Munich 1991.
- Manfred Berger : Kay, Ella. In: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work. Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 291-292.
- Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , p. 80 f.
- Ditmar Staffelt : The reconstruction of the Berlin social democracy in 1945/46 and the question of unity - a contribution to the post-war history of the lower and middle organizational structures of the SPD. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York 1986, ISBN 3-8204-9176-7 , p. 430.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ella-Kay-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Paul John (1921-1925) | Merry (come) (1925–1926) | Otto Ostrowski (1926–1933) | Arnold Krüger (1933–1934) | Karl Bombach (1934–1945) | Gustav Degner (1945–1946) | Ella Kay (1946-1947) | Kurt Exner (1948) | Richard Döling (1948–1949) | Robert Hensel (1949–1953) | Änne Saefkow (1953–1956) | Horst Hilbert (1956–1964) | Willi Jahnke (1964–1968) | Harry Gnilka (1968–1989) | Wolfgang Schulze (1989–1990) | Manfred Dennert (1990–1995) | Reinhard Kraetzer (1996-2000)
Since January 1, 2001, the Prenzlauer Berg district has been part of the new Pankow district .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kay, Ella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism, MdA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd February 1988 |
| Place of death | Berlin |