Margarete Zabe

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Grete-Zabe-Weg in Hamburg-Barmbek near the Friedrichsberg S-Bahn station

Margarete Marie "Grete" Zabe , née Margarete Tischkowsi (born March 18, 1877 in Danzig ; † December 1, 1963 in Hamburg ) was a German SPD politician and a member of the Hamburg parliament during the Weimar Republic .

Life and politics

Zabe attended elementary school and then works as a maid and as a cigarette worker. After their wedding in 1897, she worked as a temporary worker in retail. The couple had three children.

Gravestone in
the women's garden

Her husband was already a member of the SPD and convinced her to join the party as well. In 1907 they moved to Hamburg. She quickly made a name for herself as a good speaker. Her main theme was women's rights. In 1913 she was elected to the board of the SPD district of Hamburg-Uhlenhorst . During the First World War , she ran a war kitchen in Uhlenhorst.

She sat for the SPD during the entire Weimar Republic (1919-1933) in the Hamburg parliament. She was the only woman to be a deputy in the prison authority and a member of the board of trustees of the sister association of the Hamburg State Hospitals. During the Weimar period she was a member of the Hamburg SPD state executive and from 1922 to 1927 she was chairwoman of the social democratic "Women's Action Committee".

During the time of the Nazi regime, she was placed in custody for ten days in 1933 as part of the Hamburg Echo Assembly. In 1944 she was arrested by the Gestapo as part of the Gewitter campaign and held in the concentration camp for four days. In addition to the police measures, she lost her job like many other social democrats and communists .

After the war she continued to work for them for the SPD and the workers' welfare organization.

Grete Zabe's tombstone has been in the women's garden at Ohlsdorf cemetery , Hamburg, since July 2013 . She is listed as an important person.

literature

  • Rita Bake / Brita Reimers : That's how they lived! Walking on the paths of women in Hamburg's old and new town. Hamburg 2003, p. 196.
  • Ursula Büttner : Political new beginning in difficult times. Election and work of the first democratic citizenship 1919-1921, Hamburg 1994. p. 110.
  • SPD-Hamburg: For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945. Hamburg 2003, p. 457.

Honors

She is the namesake of the Grete-Zabe-Weg in Hamburg-Barmbek , near the Friedrichsberg S-Bahn station.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Bauche , Ludwig Eiber , Ursula Wamser, Wilfreid Weinke (eds.): "We are the force" - workers' movement in Hamburg from the beginnings to 1945, VSA: Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 220
  2. ^ List of celebrities at the Ohlsdorf cemetery
personal data
SURNAME Zabe, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zabe, Margarete Marie (full name); Zabe, Grete (nickname); Tischkowsi, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1963
Place of death Hamburg