Else Kolshorn

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Clara Maria Elsbeth "Else" Kolshorn (born October 10, 1873 in Berlin , † June 11, 1962 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German trade unionist . She was a co-founder of the Association of German Reich Post and Telegraph Officials and was its chairman between 1925 and 1931 .

Life

The former rest home for post and telegraph officers Else-Kolshorn-Haus in Bad Liebenstein

Kolshorn was born on October 10, 1873 in Berlin, the first child of Georg Kolshorn and his wife Klara Jurchen. From 1898 she worked as a postal worker in the telecommunications service. During the First Women's Movement , she and other women founded the Association of German Post and Telegraph Officers. In the 1920s, Kolshorn became a member of the International Association of Postal Workers (IPTT) and was the only woman on its seven-member executive committee. She was also a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Post and chair of the section for professionals in the Federation of German Women's Associations .

In 1925 Kolshorn was promoted to telegraph secretary, and in 1931 she became senior telegraph secretary. Between 1917 and 1929 she wrote three memoranda for the Association of German Reich Post and Telegraph Officers . In the course of the 1933 law to restore the professional civil service of the NSDAP , Kolshorn was dismissed and forced into retirement . As a result, she joined the Berliner Frauenbund and helped found the German Postal Union .

Else Kolshorn died on June 11, 1962 at the age of 88 in her hometown and found her final resting place in the Sophienfriedhof in East Berlin .

Honors

The convalescent home for post and telegraph officers in Bad Liebenstein , Thuringia, opened in 1920 , today a sanatorium, was called Else-Kolshorn-Haus at that time . In 1953 Kolshorn received the Golden Badge of Honor from the German Postal Union and in 1958 the Helene Lange Plaque from the Federation of German Women's Associations. On November 11, 1958, Kolshorn received the Federal Cross of Merit .

Fonts

  • Else Kolshorn: The woman in the post and telegraph administration from 1864 to 1917 . Association of the German Reich, Post and Telegraph Officers, Berlin 1917.
  • Else Kolshorn: Report on personnel issues in connection with the conversion of the local telephone company into self-access . Vienna 1926.
  • Else Kolshorn, Gertrud Thieme : Compensation for female civil servants when they leave because of marriage . Association of the German Reich, Post and Telegraph Officers, Berlin 1929.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uwe Schaper, Werner Breunig: Berlin in past and present . Landesarchiv Berlin, 1991, p. 142 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Scans of the original registry office documents viewed on ancestry.de on August 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c estate splinters Kolshorn, Else. FFBIZ, archived from the original on July 4, 2018 ; accessed on July 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ William Küsgen: Hand dictionary of the postal service. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-94265-5 , p. 295 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Kolshorn, Else. Federal Archives , archived from the original on July 5, 2018 ; accessed on July 5, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Else Kolshorn. Bavarian Library Association , archived from the original on July 5, 2018 ; accessed on July 5, 2018 .
  7. ^ House of Thuringia. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kolshorn, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolshorn, Clara Maria Elsbeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1962
Place of death Berlin-Steglitz