Emmi Kalbitzer

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Emmi Kalbitzer (born February 17, 1912 in Oberkirchen / Grafschaft Schaumburg , † December 16, 1999 in Hamburg ) was a German SPD politician. She belonged to the resistance against National Socialism and was a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Emmi Volkmann, trained clerk, had been a member of the International Socialist Combat League (ISK), a division of the SPD , since 1931 . Her organization sent her to Paris in 1933 for political training. After a short professional stopover as an employee of a journalist, she found a job in a vegetarian restaurant that served conspiratorial campaigns against National Socialism . The operators were emigrated members of the Kampfbund. Emmi Volkmann did not get a work permit in France and was expelled.

In Hamburg she worked again in a vegetarian restaurant at Börsenbrücke 4, which was operated by the illegal ISK. There she met her future husband Hellmut Kalbitzer . In 1938 she was arrested for "preparation for high treason" and taken to the Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin for two years . After her release in 1940, she married Hellmut Kalbitzer and had three children. The couple belonged to a larger group that tried underground to make preparations for democratic structures in Germany after the end of the war.

The ISK was not continued as an organization after 1945. Most of the members, including Emmi Kalbitzer, switched to the SPD. In addition to various functions within the party, Kalbitzer was a deputy on the school board. From April 1965 to 1970 she was a member of the Hamburg Parliament.

Emmi and Hellmut Kalbitzer were buried in the Blankenese cemetery , grave location: Quartier K No. 106-107.

literature

  • Hellmut Kalbitzer: Resist and help shape. A lateral thinker remembers . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1957.
  • Inge Grolle , Rita Bake : “I practiced juggling with three balls.” Women in the Hamburg citizenship from 1946 to 1993. Published by the Hamburg Regional Center for Political Education. Verlag Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930802-01-5 , p. 354.
  • Christel Oldenburg: For freedom and democracy, Hamburg social democrats remember . Published by the history working group of the SPD regional organization in Hamburg. Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0637-4 , pp. 60, 78, 79, 102, 110, 281.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Ditt : Social Democrats in the Resistance. Hamburg in the initial phase of the Third Reich. VSA, Hamburg 1984, p. 96.
  2. ↑ Portrait and gravestone image at garten-der-frauen.de
personal data
SURNAME Kalbitzer, Emmi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (ISK, SPD), Member of the Bundestag, resistance
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberkirchen (County of Schaumburg)
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1999
Place of death Hamburg