Gertrud Mahnke

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Gertrud Mahnke (born May 18, 1907 in Prenzlauer Berg , † 1992) was a German trade unionist.

Career

Mahnke was born as the daughter of the unionized coppersmith Max Hecht (1875–1927) and his wife Luise Hecht, nee. Swivel, born. After attending a high school, she trained as a bookseller . In 1926 she became a member of the SPD and in the same year she started working for the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB). In 1932 she became the branch manager of the ADGB publishing company in Breslau. After the union was broken up, she ran her own grocery store from 1934 to 1940. Between 1943 and 1945 she was used in the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg for military service.

After the end of World War II, she helped rebuild the unions. She took up a full-time union activity in 1946. Also in 1946 she took over a mandate as a member of the SPD in the district council of the Gifhorn district and was later a city councilor in Wolfsburg until 1952. In 1947 she became a member and chairwoman of the district women's committee of IG Metall and in 1952 district secretary in the district management of IG Metall in Hanover. From 1960 to 1971 she was a managing board member of IG Metall.

In 1934 she married Max Mahnke, and in 1937 she had a non-viable child.

Honors

  • 1970: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1974: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

Books

  • with Fritz Strothmann: "We wanted to do more than remove the rubble ..." Two members of the IG Metall board report on their trade union work and their lives (= series of publications by the Otto Brenner Foundation, Volume 46). Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7663-3169-8

literature

  • Felicitas Merkel: The metal industry union from 1956 to 1963 (= sources on the history of the German trade union movement in the 20th century, volume 9). Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7663-2758-5 , p. XXX (short biography), 1045 (year of death)
  • Antje Dertinger : women from the very beginning. From the founding years of the Federal Republic , J. Latka Verlag, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-925-06811-2 . (Pp. 107–118)
  • Minutes of the 4th women's conference of the metal industry union. Meinders & Elstermann, Osnabrück [1962], verbal contributions: pp. 13–20, 43–60, 133–137; Images: pp. 5, 23, 47
  • Minutes of the 5th Women's Conference of the Metalworkers Union. Union-Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Frankfurt am Main [1964], verbal contributions: pp. 9–10, 31–35, 152–167, 188–193, 281–285; Images: pp. 5, 71, 106, 153
  • Minutes of the 6th women's conference of the metal industry union. Union-Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Frankfurt am Main [1967], verbal contributions: pp. 11–18, 91–96, 167–181, 192–197, 199; Images: pp. 10, 144, 170, 211
  • Minutes of the 7th Women's Conference of the Metalworkers Union. Union-Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1970, pp. 116–117 (on the award of the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany); Verbal contributions: pp. 11–16, 25–26, 45–47, 118, 159–170, 197–200, 232–233, 237, 282–284; Images: pp. 10, 117, 159, 199, 277, 283

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Hecht at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Mahnke, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hecht, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Prenzlauer Berg
DATE OF DEATH 1992