Gertrud Müller (politician, 1893)

Gertrud Müller (born February 11, 1893 in Ohra , German Reich ; died August 22, 1970 in Eskilstuna , Sweden ) was a German politician ( Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig ).

Life

Gertrud Müller, nee Rexin, was the daughter of a tax collector and of Protestant denomination. After elementary school she trained as a kindergarten teacher and worked as a kindergarten teacher in Gdansk from 1907 to 1918 . In 1916 she married Mr. Fritsch, who died in the same year. The second marriage to Mr. Müller, which was concluded in 1918 and divorced in 1933, resulted in a child. From 1918 to 1933 she was a housewife and, after the divorce, from 1933 to 1938 owner of a grocery store in Gdansk.

In 1918 she became a member of the factory workers' council of the War Clothing Office (of the XX Army Corps ) and a member of the Gdansk SPD regional executive committee and head of the social democratic women's and children's movement in Gdansk.

From 1927 to 1933 she was a member of the People's Day for three electoral terms . From June 1930 to January 1931 she was a part-time senator in Danzig in the Senate Sahm III .

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the political work was also in the Free City of Danzig difficult, impossible latest on the Prohibition of the SPD on 14 October 1936th In January 1938 Gertrud Müller emigrated to Sweden. In 1965 she became a Swedish citizen. She first worked as a seamstress in Stockholm and lived in Fors (Eskilstuna municipality) from 1965 .

literature

• Biography of Gertrud Müller . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Müller, Gertrud , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, pp. 511f.