Gertrud Lockmann

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Gertrud Lockmann , born Buschow , (* 29. April 1895 in Hamburg , † 10. September 1962 ibid) was a German SPD - politician .

Life and politics

Gertrude Lockmann lost her mother at an early age and, after graduating from a Hamburg elementary school, trained as an accountant and tax assistant. In 1912 she became a member of the SPD. In the party, she performed political functions after training at the adult education center and the workers' education system. Among other things, she was SPD district leader in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst from 1926 to 1929. During this time she met her husband, also a Social Democrat. The marriage with the civil servant ended in divorce in the late 1930s.

In 1929 they moved to Goslar with their daughter and worked as the manager of the convalescent home of the company health insurance fund for state employees. Lockmann was also active in the Social Democratic Party in Goslar. She made it to the second chairman of the party and the advisor for the Hildesheim district . She was against the internal party line to fight against National Socialism and in October 1931 switched to the Socialist Workers' Party (SAPD).

During the Nazi period Lockmann was active in the resistance against National Socialism . She lost her job because of her political activities and hid from the Gestapo for a year . During this time she came into contact with the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen resistance group , which did not break off until 1945. She distributed illegal information to other Social Democrats.

In 1936 she found another job in the office of the restaurants in Planten un Blomen . In 1941 she started her own business as an " assistant in tax matters ".

After the Second World War she immediately became politically active again. From 1946 she worked on the board of the re-established national organization of the SPD. In addition, from October 1946 to 1950 she was a member of the Hamburg parliament for the first two electoral terms .

Stone with Lockmann's name in a memory spiral in the women's garden.

She then became a member of the German Bundestag on November 28, 1950 , when she replaced the late Erich Klabunde , and was re-elected in 1953 . In 1957 she left the Bonn parliament.

After her work in federal politics, Lockmann was once again a member of the Hamburg Parliament in the fourth electoral term from 1957 to 1961.

In her memory, her name is on the third stone of the spiral of memory in the women's garden , Ohlsdorf cemetery - Hamburg, together with those of Klara Fricke and Emma Ender .

literature

  • Inge Grolle / Rita Bake : “I practiced juggling with three balls.” Women in the Hamburg citizenship from 1946 to 1993. State Center for Civic Education Hamburg, Hamburg 1995, p. 366.
  • Rita Bake / Brita Reimers: That's how they lived! Walking on the paths of women in Hamburg's old and new town. Hamburg 2003, p. 269.
  • SPD-Hamburg: For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933-1945. Hamburg 2003, p. 97. The section on Gertrud Lockmann by Holger Martens .
  • Rita Bake: The women's garden. A place of remembrance with historical gravestones. Documentation, Hamburg 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the work For Freedom and Democracy (see literature) the year 1942 is mentioned for self-employment.
  2. ↑ In the work For Freedom and Democracy (see literature) membership in the board of the SPD is given for the years 1947 to 1954.
personal data
SURNAME Lockmann, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buschow, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB, MdB, in the resistance against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1962
Place of death Hamburg