Gertraud Winkelvoss

Gertraud Winkelvoss (born February 18, 1917 in Prettin , † March 5, 1982 in Lüneburg ) was a German politician ( DRP , NPD ). From 1967 to 1970 she was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Winkelvoss graduated from high school in Militsch in the Breslau district in 1936 . Then she was in labor service and trained as a physiotherapist in Marburg an der Lahn . After her apprenticeship, she worked in the Altstadt hospital and in the Magdeburg hospital on site . On September 1, 1938, she became a member of the NSDAP . During the Second World War she was a camp leader in the Reich Labor Service . At the end of 1945 she managed to escape to the Northeim district , where she and her husband ran their own wholesalers and retailers for dairy products from 1949 to 1954. Then she was in Oldenburg until 1964resident, later she lived in Lüneburg , where her husband was a judge at the local higher administrative court . From 1965 to 1966 she studied economics at the University of Hamburg and became a member of the German Red Cross , the Child Protection Association , the Association of Expellees and the German Women's Association .

Winkelvoss was a member of right-wing extremist parties. At first it belonged to the German Reich Party (DRP) and after its dissolution joined the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). She has been a member of the national board since the NPD was founded. In 1961 she ran for the DRP for the Lower Saxony state parliament . In the sixth electoral term she was from 1967 to 1970 as a candidate of the NPD member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. During this time she was secretary of the state parliament. In the vote on the dissolution of the state assembly, she was the only member of the state assembly to vote against the dissolution.

Her daughter Ulrike († 1999) was married to the teacher Fritz Rodewald .

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 410.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinrich Fraenkel : “'Neo-Nazism' - Facts and Fancies”, in: AJR Information , Volume XXII No. 1, January 1967, p. 1.