Gabriele Strecker

Gabriele Strecker on an election poster for the state elections in 1958

Gabriele Strecker (* December 27, 1904 in Trier as Gabriele Schneider ; † August 6, 1983 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a German doctor , journalist and women's politician.

Life

Gabriele Strecker had studied medicine from 1940 to 1943 and became a Dr. med. PhD. Then she first worked in the Bad Homburg hospital. In 1945 she gave up this job and devoted herself to the democratic reconstruction of Germany as a post-war politician and journalist. From 1946 onwards, Strecker was head of women's radio, initially on Radio Frankfurt. From 1949 she continued this activity at the newly founded Hessischer Rundfunk until 1962.

In 1948 Strecker became a member of the CDU , from 1950 to 1960 she was a member of the Hessian state executive. From 1954 to 1962 she represented the CDU in the Hessian state parliament . In addition, she was active in various women's organizations. Together with others, she founded the Bad Homburg Women's Association in 1947, was one of the founding members of the Frankfurt Club of Soroptimist International Germany in 1952 and supported the establishment of the German Women's Ring . From 1950 to 1960, Strecker was chairwoman of the CDU women's association in Hesse .

Strecker had been with the gynecologist Dr. Josef Strecker married. She had two children. Gabriele Strecker died in 1983 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. Gabriele Strecker's estate is administered by the Archive of the German Women's Movement Foundation in Kassel.

Publications

• A hundred years of women's movement. Edited by Office for women's issues in society for shaping public life e. V., Wiesbaden 1951
• Propaganda. Wiesbaden 1952
• Womanhood - today Weilheim / Upper Bavaria 1965
• The path of women into politics. 1st and 2nd edition Federal Office of the CDU, Bonn 1965, 3rd edition Bonn 1975, 4th - 7th expanded and revised edition Melle 1980, 1984, 1988, 1994 (from 3rd edition together with Marlene Lenz)
• The Hessian Landtag. Example of German post-war parliamentarism. Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Berlin, Zurich 1966
• The new Eva. In: Eva - where are you? Edited by Ursula von Mangoldt, Weilheim 1967, pp. 7–33
• Sociological-political conditioning of the nature of women. In: Eva - where are you? Edited by Ursula von Mangoldt, Weilheim 1967, pp. 34–44
• Women's dreams - women's tears. About the entertaining German women's novel. Weilheim 1969
• Survival is not enough. Women 1945-1950. Freiburg i. Breisgau 1981

Web links

Commons : Gabriele Strecker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gabriele Strecker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Finding aid on the estate of Gabriele Strecker in the possession of the Archive of the German Women's Movement Foundation