Else Voos-Heissmann

Else Voos-Heissmann , b. Heinen (born August 23, 1913 in Solingen ; † March 12, 1970 in Wiesbaden ) was a Hessian politician ( SPD ) and a former member of the Hessian state parliament .

education and profession

Else Voos-Heißmann was born as Else Heinen as the daughter of the knife worker Eugen Heinen and his wife Elisabeth Wilhelmine, née Kitschenberg. Her father fell on November 6, 1914 and her mother married the grinder Heinrich Bargatzki in 1919.

Else Heinen attended girls' school and worked in the chemical industry. Through her involvement in the Friends of Nature Youth, she came to the SPD, which she joined in the early 1920s. In 1935 she married her first husband, Ernst Voos, who also worked in the knife industry in Solingen and was a member of the SPD. In 1935 the Voos couple took over a metal goods store in Wiesbaden . On September 1, 1938, the now businesswoman became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 7.004.969).

In 1942 Ernst Voos was called up for military service and in 1943 he was taken prisoner by the French . On April 1, 1943, the daughter of the Voos couple, Eveline, was born. On July 28, 1944, Else Voos' residential building was destroyed by Allied bombing raids, and mother and daughter were evacuated to a farm near Würzburg.

After the war, Else Voos returned to Wiesbaden. The shop was confiscated by the occupying forces and could therefore not be reopened. She worked in the economic and nutritional department.

politics

From December 1, 1946 to November 30, 1950 she was a member of the Hessian state parliament and in 1949 a member of the 1st Federal Assembly . During this time, she is listed as a housewife in the state handbook. She did not play a prominent role in the state parliament. Only four speeches of her are documented. During the final reading of the draft law on social communities on October 25, 1950, with which socialization should be implemented in accordance with Article 41 of the Hessian constitution , its absence caused the submission to be rejected in the event of a tie.

After leaving politics

In 1948 her husband returned from captivity. The shop was reopened in 1949. However, the marriage was divorced as early as 1950 and Else Voos married her second husband, the insurance expert Ernst Heißmann, on September 4, 1950. He was dismissed as a government director in 1933 because he was close to the SPD. Because of his commitment to rebuilding the SPD, he was arrested in the Soviet Zone and held in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald . After his release in 1950, he fled to the West, where he met Else Voos.

In the mid-1960s, Else Voos began to suffer from Alzheimer's disease , from which she died in 1970.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 415 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
• Ulrike Ley: "A short political career" in: Ingried Langer (Ed.): Alibi women? Hessian politicians in the 1st and 2nd Hessian Landtag 1946–1954, 1985, ISBN 3-927164-24-0 , pages 271–289

Web link

• Voos-Heissmann, Else. Hessian biography. (As of March 12, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
2. ↑ socialization. It turned out quite differently. Der Spiegel No. 44/1950 of November 1, 1950, p. 32
3. ^ Report on the 90th meeting, Stenographic Protocols of the Hessian State Parliament , 1st electoral period, p. 3150