Frieda Fiedler

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Frieda Fiedler , née Frieda Mannigel (born April 14, 1885 in Altona , † December 21, 1965 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German politician (SPD).

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Fiedler was born the daughter of a basket maker . She attended elementary school in Halle (Saale) . As a young woman, Fiedler joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1908 . In the party, she was initially involved in the field of women's work, especially in her hometown of Bernburg for many years . After the First World War , she also took part in the establishment of the local workers' welfare , of which she became the first chairman. In 1921 she took part in the Görlitz party congress . From 1920 to 1933 Fiedler was city ​​councilor in Bernburg. In 1920 she became chairwoman of the local committee and in 1929 chairwoman of the district committee in the city council. Fiedler was politically committed to the expansion of maternity and infant care, tuberculosis care and the establishment of children's and youth homes, the organization of children's holiday games, school meals, hygienic living conditions and ensuring the subsistence level .

From 1924 to 1932 Fiedler was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Anhalt , in which she sat most of the time as the only female member. In the state parliament, Fiedler was a member of the submission committee and the advisory board of the Coswig prison . In 1924, 1928, 1930, 1932 and 1933 Fiedler ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Reichstag . On January 2, 1932, Fiedler came to the Reichstag in the replacement procedure for the late SPD MP Hermann Beims , in which she represented constituency 10 ( Magdeburg ) and to which she belonged until the Reichstag election of July 1932 .

After 1945 Fiedler joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), for which she was a member of the Magdeburg city ​​council . She later moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and lived in Königstein im Taunus and finally in Schneidhain .

Individual evidence

  1. Elke Stolze: The female "Gentlemen" , 2007, p. 94.
  2. Elke Stolze: FrauenOrte. Women's history in Saxony-Anhalt , 2000, p. 154.
  3. http://www.reichstagsprotocol.de/Blatt2_wv_bsb00000137_00866.html
  4. Gerda Meyer-Eberhard: A Social Democratic Lord Mayor in the Dictatorship. Rudolf Eberhard , 2000, p. 77.