Gertrud Frühschütz

Gertrud Frühschütz (born April 16, 1906 in Stuttgart as Gertrud Mink ; † July 16, 1990 in Sankt Blasien ) was a German politician ( KPD ). From 1946 to 1950 she was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden .

Life

Gertrud Mink was active in the communist movement from an early age. It was organized in the children's organization and in the youth association of the KPD. From 1930 to 1932 she worked as an office clerk in the association for children's holiday homes . In 1933 she went to see her fiancé Fritz Rau in Halle . When the Gestapo wanted her to be a communist , she lived illegally, initially in Halle and later in Berlin . After Fritz Rau, who had worked as an editor for the KPD newspaper, was arrested, she was commissioned to work on the resistance in southern Germany. In 1933 Fritz Rau was murdered by the Gestapo and Gertrud Frühschütz was imprisoned in Munich-Stadelheim. She was later transferred to the Moringen and Lichtenburg concentration camps. After her release from prison, she worked in a mechanical workshop in Stuttgart from 1942. She got to know Georg Frühschütz, who had been released from the Dachau concentration camp and whom she married during the war. After Georg Frühschütz had helped to set up the reparation office in Stuttgart and became a member of the government, he died in 1949 as a result of his imprisonment in a concentration camp. From 1945 Gertrud Frühschütz worked as a secretary for the district leadership of the KPD.

In later years Gertrud Frühschütz was a member of the Friends of Nature and the Workers' Welfare Association .

Political activity

In 1946 she belonged to the Provisional Representation of the People for Württemberg-Baden, which was set up by the American occupation forces . On June 30, 1946 she was elected to the Constituent State Assembly of Württemberg-Baden . Then she belonged to the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden until 1950 in its first electoral term. After the KPD failed to pass the five percent hurdle in the 1950 state elections , it left the state parliament. From 1951 to 1958 she worked for the KPD in the city council of Stuttgart.

Web links

• Frühschütz, Gertrud . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 337 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
• Gertrud Frühschütz in Leo-BW

literature

• Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German parliamentarians from 1919 to today , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-923476-15-9 , p. 112 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VVN-BdA Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Lilo Herrmann - a Stuttgart resistance fighter . Stuttgart 1993, p. 69 ff . (2nd edition, edited by Lothar Letsche).