Emilie Hiller

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Emilie Hiller (born December 27, 1871 in Ludwigsburg , † April 14, 1943 in Heilbronn ) was a member of the Württemberg state parliament ( SPD ) from 1920 to 1933.

Life

She was born as the illegitimate daughter of the carpenter Gustav Kittler and Caroline Stöckle in Ludwigsburg . In 1873 her father married Marie Josephine Rühle from Ludwigsburg. After the birth of the first legitimate child, he moved back to his hometown Heilbronn with his wife and two children , where he worked as a master carpenter from the mid-1870s. Emilie's stepmother Marie gave birth to a total of 12 children, four of whom died as babies or toddlers and - in addition to her step-sister Emilie - three daughters and five sons reached adulthood. Gustav Kittler was a politically active social democrat, repeatedly came into conflict with the authorities and was also briefly imprisoned several times. From 1886 he was a member of the Heilbronn municipal council .

In 1890, with her father's consent, as she was not yet of legal age , she married the social democrat Heinrich Hiller, who was six years her senior, an upholsterer and decorator from Altdorf near Ettenheim . At first, the couple lived at Biedermanngasse 11 in the same house as Emilie Hiller's father and his family. The marriage remained childless for several years; after a stillbirth in 1893, Emilie Hiller gave birth to her daughter Marie in 1896. A son followed in 1909, but died a few days after birth.

Heinrich Hiller gave up the job of upholsterer before 1900. In 1899 he was mentioned as the host of the Zum Ritter restaurant at Frankfurter Strasse 9 in Heilbronn, one of the meeting places for the Heilbronn Social Democrats. Together with his wife, he later ran the Viktoria coffee restaurant at 58 Wilhelmstrasse . The couple also lived on Wilhelmstrasse.

Emilie Hiller joined the SPD around 1900 and founded the Heilbronn SPD women's group in 1908, which was so successful with her as long-time chairman that at the end of 1928 41.2% of Heilbronn SPD members were women compared to 17.5% in the Stuttgart SPD.

From 1919 to 1920 she was a member of the constitutional state assembly for Württemberg together with her father , and from 1920 to 1933 she was a member of the state parliament of the Free People's State of Württemberg . She was drawn in via the state list, only in 1927 she took over the Heilbronn district list mandate from the late August Hornung for the rest of the legislative period , for which Jakob Weimer then moved from the state list to the state parliament. In the state parliament she was u. a. Temporary member of the legal committee and was committed to more humane penal systems , for children, especially those in welfare education , for the interests of the lower classes of the population and the emancipation of women . As early as the 1920s, she advocated the abolition of Section 218 of the Criminal Code. As a women's representative, she was a member of the state executive committee of the SPD Württemberg-Hohenzollern.

After the beginning of the Nazi regime , her political career ended in June 1933. The building in which her restaurant was located, belonging to the SPD-affiliated club printing company (publisher of the SPD daily Neckar-Echo ), was expropriated by the new rulers; the restaurant therefore had to be closed before it was taken over by a new landlord in 1934. After the expropriation, Emilie and Heinrich Hiller lived a withdrawn retirement. Emilie Hiller died on April 14, 1943 and was cremated three days later .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 360, 996 .

literature

  • Gudrun Silberzahn-Jandt: From the dining room to the state parliament. Emilie Hiller (1871-1943). In: Christhard Schrenk (ed.): Heilbronner Köpfe II. Life pictures from two centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1999, ISBN 3-928990-70-5 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. 45), pp. 37–48
  • Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MP since 1919 . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 , pp. 78-79
  • Albert Großhans: 100 years of the SPD Heilbronn 1874–1974 . Social Democratic Party of Germany, local association Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1974, p. 140
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 360 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hiller, Emilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kittler, Emilie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg politician (SPD), Member of the State Parliament 1920–1933
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1943
Place of death Heilbronn