Gertrud Scholz

Hedwig Emma Gertrud Scholz (born April 26, 1881 in Berlin , † April 18, 1950 in West Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Born Gertrud Uster, she trained as a tailor and in 1899 married the later district mayor of Neukölln, Alfred Scholz (1876–1944). This marriage gave birth to four children: Erwin (1899–1904), Hertha Beese (1902–1987), later district councilor in Reinickendorf, Arno Scholz (1904–1971), later a publicist and publisher, and Ella. When women were allowed to become members in the German Empire in 1908 , she joined the SPD and in 1910 became a women's assessor in the Rixdorf SPD. After the First World War and the November Revolution , Gertrud Scholz was elected as the only woman in the Neukölln workers 'and soldiers' council.

In the local elections in 1919, both Gertrud Scholz and her husband Alfred were elected to the city council of the then independent city of Neukölln. Alfred Scholz became mayor of Neukölln. Even after the incorporation into Greater Berlin , she remained a member of the district assembly in the Neukölln district . In the 1921 election , Scholz was elected to the Berlin city council. It was there that Gertrud Scholz met Johannes Hass (1873–1945), head of the city council , and married him in 1928. After the National Socialists ' seizure of power , both spouses lost their jobs and their mandate.

Grave of Johannes and Gertrud Haß in the Wilmersdorf cemetery

After the Second World War , Gertrud Hass was elected to the district assembly in the Reinickendorf district in the 1946 election.

literature

• Active Museum Association: In Front of the Door - Berlin City Councilors and Magistrate Members persecuted under National Socialism 1933–1945 , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , page 339.
• Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0240-2 , page 118 ff.
• Claudia von Gélieu : Pioneering Neukölln women. From the Britz princess to the first city councilor . trafo verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89626-148-7 , pages 123 ff, 139 ff.