Franziska Bennemann
Franziska Bennemann , b. Franziska Marie Therese Stellmacher (born May 30, 1905 in Hermsdorf , Brandenburg province ; † August 26, 1986 in Braunschweig ) was a politician of the SPD who had returned from emigration to England and a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1961 .
Life
Franziska Stellmacher joined the SPD in 1923 and was also active in the socialist youth movement and in the trade union. Since 1926 she was also a member of the International Socialist Fighting League (ISK). From 1925 to 1929 she studied economics with Hellmuth Rauschenplat (later Fritz Eberhard) and natural sciences and philosophy with Gustav Heckmann and Minna Specht in the Walkemühle educational home run by the ISK . Here she also met her future husband Otto Bennemann . The two married in October 1934. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists both involved in illegal political activities of the ISK . Otto Bennemann emigrated to England via Switzerland in 1938. Franziska Bennemann followed her husband in 1939 “via an employment contract as a diet cook and emigrated to England. Both worked in different areas of responsibility in England, including agriculture, Franziska as a housekeeper, Otto most recently as a calculator in the London branch of a Swedish company. ”While Franziska Bennemann was able to stay in England and worked there from 1939 to 1946 as a technical draftsman, was her husband was interned as an enemy alien and deported to Australia. When he was able to return from Australia in 1942, Franziska Bennemann had already made sure that, since 1941, when he was still interned, he had become a member of the newly formed union of the Trade Union Center for German Workers in Great Britain with a special permit .
After her return from emigration, Franziska Bennemann was again active in trade unions and party politics. From 1947 to 1950 she worked for the women's group of the trade unions in Braunschweig , and from 1953 to 1961 she was a member of the German Bundestag for two legislative periods on the Lower Saxony state list of the SPD .
Honors
The Otto and Franziska Bennemann Foundation and Bennemannstrasse in the eastern ring area in Braunschweig are named after her and her husband .
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck : Otto Bennemann (1903-2003). Of milieu, resistance and political responsibility. (= Braunschweigische Biographien , edited by the Braunschweigische Stiftung, Volume 3), Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-926701-88-6 . A review of this book states: “For a long time this book is somewhat of a double biography. Because Otto Bennemann was accompanied by his ISK colleague and later wife Franziska until 1986. The extensive correspondence between the two is a clear basis for the thinking and feeling of the couple. "
- Manfred Garzmann : Bennemann, Franziska Marie Therese, b. Wheelwright. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 50 .
- Siegfried Mielke (ed.): Trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution, resistance, emigration. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-914-1 .
- Gisela Notz : women in the team. Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-8012-4131-9 (about Bennemann, p. 162ff.)
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 55.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also the website for the Walkemühle Adelshausen educational home near Melsungen
- ^ A b Horst-Rüdiger Jarck: Zeitzeugenerinnerung II: To Otto Bennemann and Georg Eckert - Notes from Bennemann's estate on a part of the common path. In: Dieter Dowe, Eckhardt Fuchs, Heike Christina Mätzing, Steffen Collector (Eds.): Georg Eckert. Crossing the border between science and politics , V & R unipress, Göttingen, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8471-0761-3 , p. 91 ff. Online: Otto and Franziska Bennemann on Google Books .
- ↑ See: German Trades Unions in Great Britain
- ↑ About the Bennemann Foundations & Otto Bennemann on the website of the city of Braunschweig
- ↑ Klaus Pollmann: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck: Otto Bennemann (1903-2003)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bennemann, Franziska |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stellmacher, Franziska Marie Therese (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hermsdorf , Brandenburg Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1986 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |