Gertrud Thürmer

Gertrud Thürmer (born Hörstebrock ; born April 24, 1900 in Oberrahmede ; † July 16, 1986 in Dresden ) was a German politician ( LDPD ). She was a member of the Saxon State Parliament and the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Thürmer, daughter of a superintendent , was a trained kindergarten teacher. As a music student, she attended the Westphalian University of Music in Münster and the Conservatory in Dresden and became an organist. During this time she lived with her sister and her brother-in-law Johannes Dieckmann and met her husband Walter Thürmer . Before 1933 she belonged to the Democratic People's Party (DVP).

After the Second World War , she joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDP) in 1945 and worked from 1945 to 1947 as chairwoman of the State Women's Committee of Saxony. From June 1946 she was a member of the advisory assembly of Saxony . In July 1946 she was elected to the LDP 's central executive committee as a women's representative at the first LDP convention in Erfurt . From October 1947 to January 1949 she was a member of the LDP regional executive committee for Saxony. From October 1946 to July 1952 she was a member of the Saxon state parliament and from 1950 to 1952 chairwoman of the committee for the penal system.

At the founding congress of the DFD -Landesverband Sachsen in June 1947 she was elected as the first state chairman, but was replaced by Mizzi Kaschner in March 1948 . Then she was deputy state chairwoman. From 1948 to 1950 she was a member of the German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber . After the dissolution of the states and the formation of the districts in August 1952, she became a member of the Dresden District Assembly . At the end of March 1954 she became deputy head of the "Berlin Office of the International Conference for the Peaceful Solution of the German Question", which on November 20, 1959 was transformed into an interparliamentary office of the People's Chamber.

She worked in the peace movement and the National Front of the GDR . Thürmer was later an honorary member of the DFD district board in Dresden and most recently lived as a veteran in Dresden.

Awards

• 1966 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1985 in gold

literature

• Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945–1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 1042.

Individual evidence

1. ^ People's Chamber of the GDR in the Federal Archives