Else Noack
Else Martha Frida Noack (born Powalka ; born September 23, 1913 in Züllichau ; † February 17, 2001 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German politician ( SED ). She was Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1955 to 1960 .
Life
Noack came from a working class family. She attended elementary school , completed an apprenticeship and then worked as a saleswoman . Between 1937 and 1946 she was a housewife.
In 1945 she joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in 1946 became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In January / February 1946 she completed a course at the KPD party school in Schmerwitz near Wiesenburg / Mark . She then worked as a women's officer in the Beeskow district administration in 1946/47 , and then from 1947 to 1951 as district manager of the Storkow consumer cooperative . In 1951 she acted as a department head in the Finsterwalde SED district management and then from 1951 to 1953 as an organizational instructor and secretary at the Finsterwalde district council . After attending the one-year course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law (DASR) in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1953/54 , she worked as secretary of the Angermünde district council in 1954/55 .
On April 15, 1955, the city council of Frankfurt (Oder) elected Noack as the first woman to the office of mayor. Two years later - on July 5, 1957 - she was re-elected. During her tenure, the reconstruction of the city center continued to largely abandon the old town plan. On May 28, 1956, building construction began on Wollenweberstrasse. Karl-Marx-Strasse was expanded into a shopping and traffic street. The “Lichtspieltheater der Jugend” in Wilhelm-Pieck-Strasse (today Heilbronner Strasse) was officially opened on the eve of May 1, 1955. The history of the semiconductor factory began at the turn of the year 1958/1959 .
Noack was recalled as mayor on June 7, 1960 , after she had completed a distance learning course at DASR in 1959 , and resigned from the city council on July 10, 1960.
After 1960 Else Noack became an elected member of the Potsdam District Council . She worked in a leading position in the women's commission of the Potsdam district leadership of the SED .
Else Noack was strongly committed to training women and getting them into management positions.
Awards
- Medal of Merit of the GDR (1959)
literature
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . tape 2 . Arani ,, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 235 .
- Gabriele Baumgartner: Noack, Else . In: Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 602 ( google.de ).
- Andreas Herbst : Noack, Else . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Else Noack. Frankfurt's first female mayor . In: Sophia Stolf, Gisela Fahlbusch, Miriam Faul, Thilo Hoppe, Julian Juckel, Katharina Lipowsky (eds.): Frauenorte . Frankfurt (Oder) 2015, p. 10 ( europa-uni.de [PDF; 6.4 MB ; accessed on January 1, 2019]).
Web links
- Short biography on the website of the Frankfurt (Oder) City Archives.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noack, Else |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Powalka, Else (maiden name); Noack, Else Martha Frida (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sulechów |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 2001 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt (Oder) |