Gesine Becker

Gesine Becker b. Bolte (born April 16, 1888 in Meinershausen near Bremen , † December 9, 1968 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD , KPD ) and a member of the Bremen citizenship .

Life

Gesine Bolte was the daughter of a farmer. She worked as a shop assistant and housekeeper and from 1911 to 1925 as a caretaker. She became a member of the SPD in 1910. She married the carpenter Hans Gottwerth Becker, who later became a KPD editor.

On November 23, 1918, she was one of the founding members of the International Communist Party (IKP) in Bremen. As a result, she became a member of the KPD at the turn of the year 1919. She supported the Bremen Soviet Republic . From 1929 to 1930 she was a member of the Bremen citizenship and was a member of the parliamentary committee of the KPD parliamentary group. She was committed to social policy and the situation of the workforce and women. Since 1920 she has led the KPD's women's agitation commission. In 1922, she successfully campaigned for the lifting of an expulsion order from 1908 against the communist Dutch worker Johann Geusendam . From 1922 she headed the Bremen section of the Red Aid together with Nieter Raschen . From 1925 to 1927 she was an office clerk at the Reichsbahn and then in 1929 organizational manager of the KPD district northwest. When she became chairwoman of the Red Women's and Girls' Association (RFMB) in 1926 , she rehearsed the agitation piece "§ 218/219" with the women of the RFMB.

At the end of 1930 the family moved to Berlin-Lichtenberg . From 1934 to 1936 she was the owner of Café Derby on Schlesische Strasse. From 1939 to 1944 she was obliged to work as an office clerk. After the Second World War she lived in the GDR and had been a member of the SED since 1946 . She was an office worker at VEB Schrott Berlin-Lichtenberg until 1955 , then a clerk in the management department of the Humboldt University in Berlin .

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Renate Meyer-Braun (Ed.): Women in Parliament . Bremen 1991.
• Dagmar Stuckmann: Becker, Gesine, b. Bolte . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).

Web links

• Becker, Gesine in the Lexicon of the Bremen Women's Museum