Else Bauer

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Else Bauer (undated)

Else Bauer , born Else Hausmann (* December 21, 1893 in Potsdam ; † June 24, 1967 in West Berlin ) was a German politician ( USPD / SPD / SED ). She was city councilor in Potsdam and vice president of the state parliament of Brandenburg .

Life

Else Hausmann attended elementary school , completed a commercial apprenticeship and initially worked as an accountant . In 1917 she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD). On June 11, 1920 Else Hausmann married the businessman Emil Ludwig Bauer, who brought a five-year-old daughter into the marriage. He was also a party member and was a union member. After the split in the USPD in the same year, both switched to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Else Bauer headed the advertising department of the SPD party newspaper Potsdamer Volksblatt from 1924 to 1933 , her husband was the managing director. In 1928/29 she was a city ​​councilor in Potsdam . In March 1933 the Potsdamer Volksblatt was discontinued. Nothing is known about her life in the time of National Socialism until 1945.

In 1945/46 she was a member of the Brandenburg SPD district committee, where she was responsible for women's issues. At the joint party congress of the SPD and KPD at the provincial level on April 7, 1946 in Potsdam, Else Bauer was elected to the inner committee. From April 1946 to April 1949 she was a member of the secretariat of the provincial or state executive of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) Brandenburg. In 1946 she also represented the SED in the Potsdam city council. Her husband headed the Potsdam employment office from 1946.

From 1946 to August 1947 Else Bauer was responsible for the Labor and Social Department together with Gerda Sucker (formerly KPD ) and from September 1947 to April 1949, together with Margarete Langner (formerly KPD), responsible for the women's department. After the establishment of the small secretariat of the SED state executive in May 1949, she was no longer a member of the secretariat, but was still head of the women's department (at least until December 1949). Else Bauer was elected to the Brandenburg state parliament in 1946. There she was one of 18 parliamentarians out of 100 members and held the office of vice-president until 1950. On Republic Day on October 7, 1961, she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

In the spring of 1967 Else and Ludwig Bauer moved to their daughter's family in West Berlin . Else Bauer died there a short time later, her husband in 1986.

Else Bauer as a candidate for the SED city council in an election brochure in 1946

literature

  • Werner Bethge, Kurt Finker, Kurt Libera: Union of SPD and KPD in the province of Brandenburg in 1946 (= Dialogue in the PDS, Issue 3/1 ; PDF, 264 kB). PDS regional association, Potsdam 1996, p. 34.
  • Dieter Hübener: On the local politics of the SPD in the Potsdam city council from 1919 to 1933. Dissertation at the Pedagogical University Potsdam, 1988, p. 126, 129.
  • Jürgen Koppatz: On some questions of the local elections and the municipal administration in Potsdam (1808-1946). In: Bezirksheimatmuseum Potsdam (ed.): Contributions to the history of Potsdam (issue 17). Potsdam 1969, pp. 76, 97.
  • Andreas Malycha (ed.): On the way to the SED. Social democracy and the formation of a unity party in the countries of the Soviet occupation zone. A source edition (= Archive for Social History , Supplement 16). Dietz, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-8012-4052-5 , pp. 22, 139.
  • Rita Pawlowski: Without women, no state can be made ?! In: Kulturland Brandenburg (ed.): Courage and grace . Leipzig 2010, p. 65.
  • Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2 , p. 917.
  • People from the people - candidates of the SED. SED campaign brochure for the city council elections in 1946, p. 5/6.

Web links

Commons : Else Bauer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin, registry office Tiergarten von Berlin, list of names to the death register 1967, P Rep. 820 No. 30 (http://www.content.landesarchiv-berlin.de/labsa/pdf/P_Rep_820_0030.pdf)
  2. ↑ Certificate of marriage (owned by the family)
  3. ↑ Potsdamer people sheet 29./30.8.1931.
  4. ↑ According to Andreas Malycha (In: On the way to the SED , p. 22) she was a city councilor until 1932. In the Potsdam address book from 1930, however, she is no longer listed as a city councilor. He also falsely writes that she died in 1950.
  5. ^ Opening of the Landtag Mark Brandenburg . In: Neues Deutschland , November 23, 1946, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hausmann, Else (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (USPD / SPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1967
Place of death West Berlin