Elsa Teuffert

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Elsa Teuffert (born June 12, 1888 in Hamburg as Elsa Jansen ; † March 10, 1974 ibid) was a German politician of the FDP .

Political party

Gravestone for Elsa Teuffert in the women's garden at Ohlsdorf cemetery .

After the Second World War , Teuffert, who had been active in helping inflation victims between 1923 and 1933, joined the FDP , where she was chairwoman of the regional women's group from 1953 to 1959. When the bourgeois Hamburg block made up of the FDP, CDU , DP and BHE formed the Hamburg Senate after the 1953 state elections , Teuffert applied for one of the five Senatorial posts granted to the Liberals, but was unable to assert himself at the meeting of the State Committee on November 8, 1953 . In the 1950s she was a member of the board of the Hamburger Frauenring for the FDP.

MPs

Teuffert was a district member of Altona from 1951 to 1954 and also a deputy of the building authorities in 1953/54. She belonged to the Hamburg citizenship from May 28, 1954, when she succeeded Building Senator Johannes Büll , until 1957 and from January 15, 1958, when she succeeded Senator for Culture Hans-Harder Biermann-Ratjen , until 1966. In the 1953 Bundestag election she ran for third place on the state list, but the FDP had only won two seats in Hamburg.

Commemoration

Elsa Teufferts grave stone is the lasting memory in the garden of the women of the cemetery Ohlsdorf erected.

literature

  • Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953

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