Gertrud Wetzel

Gertrud Wetzel , b. Jungmann (born May 22, 1914 in Einöd ; † March 11, 1994 in Frankenthal ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

The daughter of a station master received her elementary school education in Limburgerhof and then attended the humanistic grammar school in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . During her school days, she joined the Naturefriends Youth , the Socialist Student Union and the Socialist Workers' Youth . After graduating from high school in 1934, she initially wanted to begin studying, but was refused admission to the university. Because of her membership in the SSB and the SAJ, she was classified as "politically unreliable" by the National Socialists. To make matters worse, her father had belonged to the Social Democrats during the Weimar Republic . She then began training as a foreign language correspondent, which she completed in 1935 at a private vocational school in Mannheim with the exams for English and French . In the same year she received a position as secretary to the management in the Frankenthal industry, which she held until 1943. She then returned to Limburgerhof and was a housewife there. In 1956 she moved to Frankenthal again with her family.

Wetzel joined the SPD in 1946 and held executive functions within the party at local and district level. In addition, she was a member of the board of the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate .

Wetzel was from 1948 to 1956 a member of the local council in Limburgerhof, from 1951 to 1960 a member of the district assembly of the Palatinate and from 1964 to 1974 a member of the city council in Frankenthal. In the state elections in 1959 she was elected for the first time as a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament. Her candidacy was also successful in the two subsequent state elections in 1963 and 1967 . It was always drawn into the state parliament via the state list of the SPD. In parliament, to which she belonged until 1971, she was a member of the Agricultural Policy Committee and the Legal Affairs Committee from 1959 to 1963, from 1967 to 1971 a member of the Council of Elders and the Intermediate Committee, and a member of the Cultural Policy Committee throughout. From January 1970 to May 1971 she was also deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

From 1975 to 1987 she was a full member of the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate . With her, a woman took on such a function for the first time.

Gertrud Wetzel had been married to Wilhelm Robert Wetzel since 1941 and had two children, who were born in 1941 and 1944.

Awards

• Baron vom Stein plaque of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 741–742.
• Hedwig Brüchert: Rhineland-Palatinate women: women in politics, society, economy and culture in the early years of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. (= Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. 23). v. Hase and Koehler, Mainz 2001, pp. 439–441.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 16th edition. Arani, Berlin 1970, p. 1431.

Web links

• Entry on Gertrud Wetzel in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 100 Great Rhineland-Palatinate Women. The slightly different campaign. (PDF; 70.9 KB) State working group of municipal women and equality officers in Rhineland-Palatinate / LAG, accessed on September 15, 2015 . 
2. ^ The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate: The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . Ed .: The President of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 741-742 .