Gertrud Harms
Gertrud Harms, married. Holloway (born April 10, 1916 in Bremen , † January 27, 1976 in Bethesda (Maryland) (USA)) was a German art historian and Bremen politician ( BDV / FDP ).
biography
Family, studies and work
Gertrud (called Trudel) Harms was the daughter of the merchant Louis Adolf Wilhelm Harms (1872–1941) and his wife Caroline Auguste Frieda, who ran the Harms am Wall textile house in Bremen, Am Wall 158–161.
She studied art history, history, philosophy and archeology at the University of Munich , the University of Würzburg , the University of Berlin , in Greece and Italy. She therefore traveled through Europe, to North Africa, Turkey and Syria. In 1941 she became Dr. phil. PhD . In Berlin , she worked in the preservation of monuments from 1942 and then at the Ministry of Finance.
After the Second World War she returned to Bremen. She also taught art history at several schools and at the Bremen Adult Education Center . From 1951 to 1953 she worked at the Focke Museum .
In 1953 she married the US Vice Consul in Hong Kong Jerome Knight Holloway (1923-2006). She gave up the MP and profession and moved to Hong Kong. Holloway became Consul General in Kobe - Osaka , Japan in the early 1970s . She later lived in Bethesda , Maryland . Both had three children. However, she was buried in Bremen.
politics
She joined the Bremen Democratic People's Party (BDV), which became part of the FDP in 1948 . From 1947 to 1953 she was a member of the Bremen citizenship . In 1951 she was elected one of the vice-presidents of the Bremen citizenship. She worked in the deputations for general schools and for internal administration. Here she wrote a pamphlet on the development of the Bremen market square . She supported the establishment of a university in Bremen.
literature
- Renate Meyer-Braun: Harms-Holloway, Gertrud (called Trudel), b. Harms . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Magnus Buhlert : Liberals in the Bremen citizenship . epuli, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-5269-9 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harms, Gertrud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holloway, Gertrud; Harms-Holloway, Gertrud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1976 |
| Place of death | Bethesda, Maryland |