Emmy Lanzke

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Emmy Lanzke (née Röstel; born November 6, 1900 in Zielenzig ; † June 20, 1962 in Hanover ) was a German local politician ( SPD ) and a social worker .

Life

Emmy Lanzke was born at the time of the German Empire in the district of Osternburg as the daughter of the foreman Röstel, who worked in Zelenzig. As a young girl, she developed a keen sense of social justice. As a teenager she got involved in the Socialist Workers 'Youth (SAJ) and began her work in the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO) during the Weimar Republic . As a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , she took part in the SPD party congress from May 31 to June 5, 1931 in the Volkshaus in Leipzig .

After the National Socialists seized power in 1933 , Lanzke's husband became unemployed. In World War II, her son died in 1944, her husband was in captivity . But "instead of sinking into sadness and apathy, she got involved socially and politically and helped to cope with the post-war misery in Hanover in 1945 ". It was 1945, the first woman from the British military authorities in the Council of the City of Hanover was appointed. At the same time, Lanzke headed the AWO district association Hanover from 1945.

Emmy Lanzke was one of the "many post-war women who did the most obvious and necessary things without personal vanity." In October 1946, the SPD social politician gave a rousing speech in the council, in which she spoke in drastic terms about the living conditions of thousands and thousands of refugees housed in barracks and bunkers at the time described:

“They lie on cemented floors and in unheated rooms, some of which do not have the simplest hygienic facilities.

The misery of these people, who have lost everything with their homeland, is indescribable.

The sick are crammed together with the healthy and children with adults who sometimes lack any moral considerations. "

At that time, Lanzke appealed to the Allies to stop further refugee transports to Hanover, as the city was “facing a catastrophe of misery”. But in November 1946 another transport with more than 2,000 refugees reached the city of Hanover. Two-thirds of the people were quartered in dance halls, others in restaurants, in the school on Kestnerstraße, in the bunker on Pfarrlandplatz or in Bömelburgstraße, in the warehouse on Hinüberstraße or in the former dynamite factory in Empelde , in the underground bunker at the main train station and sticks sometimes even in the barracks of the former concentration camp . In the dark and cold accommodations, complete strangers slept next to each other in a confined space without stoves or bedsteads; a mother from Silesia lived with her six children on bare cement floors for weeks. When Emmy Lanzke visited such camps, desperate people shouted to her: "Give us poison if you can't help us!"

In 1950 more than 37,000 refugees were still living in mass accommodation in Hanover, some of them still living in shabby barracks until the 1960s. In 1955 Emmy Lanzke was appointed - again as the first woman - as a senator to the administrative council of the city of Hanover. Until 1960 she also headed the AWO district association Hanover, which later named the "House for Mother and Child" after her in the Emmy Lanzke House . From the first municipal elections in 1946 until 1961 she was the chairwoman of the social committee in the council of the Lower Saxony state capital.

In 1961 Emmy Lanzke was awarded the plaque for services to the state capital Hanover . She died on July 20, 1962, shortly after she resigned from office "in order to enjoy peace and privacy".

Emmy Lanzke Way

Posthumously in 2003 in the Hanover district of Vahrenheide, the "Emmy-Lanzke-Weg", which connects the street Holzwiesen with Weimarer Allee , was named after the social politician and councilor.

literature

  • Siegfried Hebestreit (text), Joachim Giesel et al. (Photos): For mother and child. The Emmy Lanzke House in Hanover , Hanover: [city administration], press office, 1968

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hiltrud Schroeder (Red.): Lanzke, geb. Röstel, Emmy, Councilor and Senator , in this. (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographical portraits , Fackelträger, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , pp. 245f.
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Emmy-Lanzke-Weg , in Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , new series 58 (2004), p. 279; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ oV : Social Democratic Party Congress in Leipzig in 1931 from 31 May to 5 June Volkshaus . Protocol. Social Democratic Party of Germany: Verlag der Expedition des Berliner Volksblatt, 1931, p. 299; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ a b c Simon Benne: Series “Aufbruch 1945” / “Most farmers preferred to do black market” / July 1945: Tens of thousands of displaced persons come to Hanover. Here they are met with a mixture of pity and distrust. The need of the refugees is great - but they are also the engine of the economic miracle. On the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from August 4, 2015, updated on August 7, 2015, last accessed on September 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Lanzke, Emmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röstel, Emmy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social functionary and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Targeted
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1962
Place of death Hanover