Friederike Nadig

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Friederike "Frieda" Nadig (born December 11, 1897 in Herford ; † August 14, 1970 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was an SPD politician and one of the four " mothers of the Basic Law ".

Life and work

Nadig, who belonged to the Protestant church , first learned the trade of saleswoman in a consumer shop . After the First World War , she attended the social women's school in Berlin, founded by Alice Salomon in 1908 . In 1922 she passed the welfare nurse exam and then worked as a welfare worker in Bielefeld . She volunteered for workers' welfare .

After the so-called seizure of power , she was banned from practicing as a “confessional socialist” in March 1933 . Political activity was no longer possible for her. It was not until 1936 that she was able to find a job again as a health care worker in Ahrweiler . After the end of the Second World War , Nadig worked for 20 years (until 1966) as the full-time managing director of the re-established Arbeiterwohlfahrt in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe district .

Political party

Nadig had a strong political awareness and interest from a young age. She joined the Herford Workers' Youth in 1913 at the age of 16 and joined the SPD three years later. After 1945 she participated in the reconstruction of the SPD.

MPs

From 1930 to 1933 Nadig was a member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament .

From 1947 to 1950 Nadig was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament. In 1947/48 she was a member of the Zone Advisory Board for the British Zone of Occupation .

In 1948 she was appointed to the Parliamentary Council as one of four women and worked on the drafting of the Basic Law . Along with Elisabeth Selbert , who also belonged to the SPD, she was one of the most committed campaigners for equality . In contrast to Helene Weber ( CDU ) and Helene Wessel ( center ), who were skeptical of comprehensive equality between women and men, Nadig took the position that women, who made up the majority of Germany’s citizens after the Second World War , were on their shoulders a large part of the actual pension benefits for the families burdened, beyond which civic equality should also be equated in family and marriage law. While the SPD was able to assert itself with the demand for equality of men and women before the law (Article 3 of the Basic Law ), which entailed a comprehensive change to the civil code , Nadig failed with the demands for "equal pay for equal work" as well as equality between illegitimate and legitimate children.

In the first federal election in 1949, Frieda Nadig entered the Bundestag , to which she was a member until 1961. It was directly elected in 1949 in the constituency of Bielefeld-Stadt and in 1953 and 1957 in the constituency of Bielefeld - Halle .

Honors

In 1961 she was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit for her commitment to "consolidating the democratic idea, especially among the female population" . The Arbeiterwohlfahrt awarded her the Marie Juchacz plaque in 1970 . After her there are several streets and paths, including in her hometown Herford, in Berlin , Bielefeld , Bonn , Detmold , Dortmund , Gütersloh , Cologne , Moers , Norderstedt , Offenburg and Salzkotten as well as a retirement home in Bielefeld- Sennestadt and the Frieda-Nadig- Foundation named.

literature

  • Gisela Notz: women in the team. Social Democrats in the Parliamentary Council and in the German Bundestag from 1948/49 to 1957 . Bonn 2003, pp. 54-79.
  • Bärbel Sunderbrink: "Men and women have equal rights". The SPD politician and co-creator of the Basic Law Frieda Nadig (1897–1970) . In this. (Ed.): Women in Bielefeld History . Bielefeld 2010, pp. 222-231.
  • Bärbel Sunderbrink: Frieda Nadig, the Basic Law and “the struggle for equal rights for women” . In: Ravensberger Blätter , Issue 1/2009, pp. 49–62.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Büschenfeld: From "Socialism of Action" to Free Welfare Care. The Workers' Welfare Organization Ostwestfalen-Lippe 1946-1966 . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-7395-1066-8 .
  2. ↑ Hilke Lorenz: 61 constitutional fathers and four mothers . In: Pressehaus Stuttgart (ed.): Stuttgarter Zeitung . No. 107 . Stuttgart May 9, 2019, p. 4 .
  3. ^ Siegfried Singer: Handbook of the German Bundestag , 4th edition, Klett-Verlag, Stuttgart 1957, page 157.
  4. ↑ Friederike-Nadig-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  5. ↑ Frieda-Nadig-Haus senior center
personal data
SURNAME Nadig, Friederike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nadig, Frieda (nickname); Nadig, Friederike Charlotte Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1970
Place of death Herford