Gertrud Klühs

Gertrud Klühs (born October 28, 1893 in Magdeburg , † April 4, 1976 in Berlin ), née Thape, was a German politician ( SPD ).

Gertrud Thape joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and the SPD in 1908 . She worked in Magdeburg as the youth leader of the SAJ and as a librarian in the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB). In 1918 she married the journalist Franz Klühs and moved with him to Berlin, since he became deputy editor-in-chief of " Vorwärts ". In 1924 Gertrud Klühs was elected to the district assembly in the Tempelhof district.

After the National Socialists “came to power ” in 1933, she and her husband founded the “Bücherstube Gertrud Klühs” lending library . In the same year Franz Klühs was arrested and later convicted. He died in 1938 of the long-term effects of his mistreatment. Gertrud Klühs tried to maintain contact with Max Westphal and the other illegal Social Democrats. In 1937 she became a commercial clerk at the German Society for Chemical Apparatus (Dechema) in Frankfurt am Main . In 1939 she was arrested for “preparing to commit high treason” and later acquitted by the Berlin Supreme Court for lack of evidence. Until the end of the Second World War she worked in Bad Pyrmont and in Mügeln, Saxony .

After the war, Kühls returned to Berlin. At the first Berlin election in 1946 , she was in the city council of Greater Berlin and in the Borough Assembly voted Tempelhof. She became a co-founder of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) Berlin. Until 1966 she was citizens' deputy in the Tempelhof district.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 148 (331 pages).
• Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0240-2 , p. 150 f.