Erika Wolf
Erika Wolf, b. Engel (born March 26, 1912 in Berlin , † February 4, 2003 in Potsdam ) was a German politician ( CDU ).
Life and work
After graduating from high school, Wolf studied law and languages in Lausanne , Marburg , London and Berlin from 1932 to 1937 . They passed the first state examination, doctorate on Dr. jur. and finished her studies after passing the French and English language exams.
Wolf worked from 1948 to 1950 in the main administration for labor and social welfare at the German Economic Commission of the Soviet Zone of Occupation (SBZ) and in the GDR Ministry for Labor and Health. In August 1950 she fled the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany .
From 1951 to 1953 Wolf worked for the Swedish Aid Organization in Germany and Sweden . From 1954 to 1965 she worked for the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia , most recently as a government director in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. From 1967 she was vice-president of Welthungerhilfe and from 1970 deputy chairwoman of the board of trustees of the German Foundation for Developing Countries. Later she was a member of the German UNESCO Commission . In 1994 she returned to Potsdam.
Political party
Wolf joined the CDU in Potsdam in 1945 and founded the CDU in the Soviet Zone together with Andreas Hermes and Walther Schreiber . She was a member of the state board of the CDU Brandenburg and from 1945 to May 1948 head of the women's department of the state board. From the end of 1949 to August 1950 she worked as head of the social policy department at the main board of the CDU Berlin.
Since the political change in the GDR in 1989, Wolf supported the rebuilding of the CDU regional association Brandenburg, of which she was honorary chairman from 1995 to 2003.
MPs
From 1946 until her escape in 1950, Wolf was a city councilor at the Potsdam city council . She was a member of the German Bundestag from 1965 to 1976. She was always drawn into parliament via the state list of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1972 to 1976 she was deputy chairwoman of the Bundestag committee for economic cooperation.
Honors
- 1973: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- 1988: Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star
- 2019: Street name of the former eastern Schwertfegerstrasse in Potsdam in "Erika-Wolf-Strasse"
Private
- She was the third daughter of Konrad Engel (1862–1912) and Wilhelmine von Velsen (1873–1966) and granddaughter of the statistician Ernst Engel (1821–1896). In 1938 she married Wilhelm Wolf , who later became the state chairman of the CDU Brandenburg . The marriage had three children. One of her grandchildren is Stefan Studt , who was Interior Minister of Schleswig-Holstein from 2014 to 2017.
See also
literature
- Who is who? The German Who is Who, published by Walter Habel, arani Verlags-GmbH, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1463.
- Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945-1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 1060.
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 971-972.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Erika |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Engel, Erika (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 2003 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |