Else Berkmann
Else Berkmann (* 31 March 1904 in Itzehoe , † the 30th November 2001 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician of the SPD , a member of the Hamburg Parliament and member of parliament in Baden-Wuerttemberg .
Life
Else Berkmann completed a commercial and home economics apprenticeship. She came from a social democratic family and became a member of the SPD in 1923. In January 1933 she was elected to the Hamburg parliament, which was dissolved in autumn 1933 by the Reichsstatthalter Karl Kaufmann . She and her husband Kurt Berkmann (* 1903) worked illegally for the SPD after the seizure of power . She was briefly arrested and her husband was held in protective custody for five weeks . Both lost their jobs and, under pressure from the Gestapo, had to move from Hamburg via Chemnitz to Tübingen .
After the end of the war, in 1946 she was one of the founders of the SPD in Württemberg-Hohenzollern together with Carlo Schmid and Fritz Erler . Cross-party she took the initiative for a “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tübinger Staatsbürgerinnen” ( German Citizens Association ) to make it easier for women to get into politics, and from 1957 to 1972 she worked on the board of the predecessor organization of the Baden-Württemberg state center for political education “Der Citizens in the State ”with. She worked as a lecturer and as an employee at adult education centers and also at the Amerikahaus in Stuttgart with the democratic development.
Else Berkmann sat from 1960 to 1968 for the Stuttgart I constituency and was directly elected to the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. She was a member of the culture committee and the parliamentary presidium, her subjects were retirement and nursing homes, monument protection, adult education, political education, the penal system, legal education and the school system.
She was a member of the ÖTV and the main committee of the Association of Württemberg Adult Education Centers.
In 1975 she was appointed honorary chairman of the working group of social democratic women in Baden-Württemberg, other honors she rejected Hanseatic.
literature
- Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German parliamentarians from 1919 to today , Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-923476-16-9 , pp. 143f.
- Frank Raberg : Else Berkmann (1904-2001). In: Moments. Contributions to regional studies of Baden-Württemberg , No. 1/2004, ISSN 1619-1609 .
Web links
- Obituary by Frieder Birzele [1] (PDF; 27 kB)
- Holdings in the archive of social democracy adsd
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berkmann, Else |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL, MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Itzehoe |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 2001 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |