Frieda Ross

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Frieda Roß (born July 27, 1899 in Hamburg ; † July 8, 1975 ) was a German politician of the SPD and a member of the Hamburg parliament .

Life

Frieda Roß born Hinsch attended elementary school and after graduating from commercial college she was a correspondent and accountant . In the meantime she worked as a commercial clerk for the newspaper Hamburger Echo and the welfare department. In 1923 she married the then President of the Hamburg Parliament and later Social Democratic First Mayor of Hamburg Rudolf Roß .

Frieda Roß was buried in the Bergstedt cemetery in Hamburg next to her husband, who died in 1951.

politics

Ross was appointed to the " Appointed Citizenship " by the English city commander for Hamburg, General Armitage . She should represent the interests of the housewives there . She belonged to the SPD parliamentary group from the start.

In the first electoral period from 1946 to 1949 , she again sat for the SPD in the first freely elected Hamburg parliament of the post-war period. In the second electoral term of the citizenship, she moved up after Heinrich Eisenbarth's death on August 9, 1950 and sat in parliament until 1970.

Further offices

Roß was a committed women's rights activist and played an active role in the women's movement in the city of Hamburg in the post-war period. Among other things, she co-founded the Hamburger Frauenring with Magda Hoppstock-Huth . She was also the chairman of the Hamburg Housewives Association. Their main goal in the emancipation movement was to give the housewife profession social recognition.

Sources and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SPD Wandsbek 1863–1950, publisher: SPD Hamburg and Kreis Wandsbek, Hamburg 1988, p. 75
  2. ↑ Frieda Roß, b. Hinsch at garten-der-frauen.de
personal data
SURNAME Ross, Frieda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1975