Franziska Schmidt (politician)

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Franziska Schmidt (born August 31, 1899 in Mannheim , † November 10, 1979 in Heilbronn ) was a German publicist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Franziska Schmidt attended elementary school , secondary school and the municipal commercial college in Mannheim . Then she did a commercial apprenticeship. In 1927 she joined the SPD and was secretary in the SPD regional district of Baden until 1933 and co-editor of a women's supplement to the Mannheimer Volks-Voice . From 1933 to five years unemployed, in 1938 she found a new job with the shipping company Schwaben in Heilbronn.

In 1946, Franziska Schmidt was a member of the first editorial board of the newly founded Heilbronn Voice when establishing a democratic press . When the traditional social democratic paper Neckar-Echo was re-approved by the occupying power, she was the local editor in charge there from 1949 to 1964. From 1951 she worked on the board of the Small Theater in Heilbronn, was a member of the Friends of Kilian's Church and dedicated herself to animal welfare.

politics

In 1946 Franziska Schmidt was elected to the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden . She was a member of this body until 1952. She saw her main task in the fight for women's rights. For example, she protested when the religious administration began to remove all teachers burdened with families, regardless of whether they were widowed or married, by dismissing them. She fought for equal rights for women, for reparations for victims of the Nazi regime and for securing the most essential existential foundations.

Franziska Schmidt had already been elected to the Heilbronn City Council in January 1948, to which she belonged continuously until October 1971. She was there on the administrative committee, the local school board and the culture committee.

Awards

In 1969 Franziska Schmidt was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1971 she received the ring of honor of the city of Heilbronn and was made an honorary member as a co-founder of the Europa-Union Heilbronn.

literature

  • Josef Weik (edit.): Member of the Bundestag, the members of the state parliaments in Baden-Württemberg 1946–1978 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-911930-2 .
  • Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MP since 1919 . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary members of the Heilbronn district association. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1979
Place of death Heilbronn