Hedwig fighter
Hedwig Kämper or Kaempfer (born Nibler; born January 23, 1889 in Munich ; † June 7 or 8, 1947 in Paris ) was a German politician of the USPD .
Life
The daughter of a Munich master baker was originally an clerk at the Central Association for Employees. In 1917 she married the businessman and journalist Richard Kaempfer (1884–1966), who came from a Poznan family of Jewish faith. She was a co-founder of the USPD in Munich, from 1918 the only woman on the Revolutionary Workers 'Council and judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, while her husband was involved in the State Soldiers' Council. From November 1918 to January 1919 she was a member of the Provisional National Council. She was also a co-founder of the “Association of Socialist Women”. Like Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann , she tried to de-escalate after Kurt Eisner's murder in the spring of 1919 and helped prevent the Revolutionary Tribunal from issuing death sentences.
On May 1, 1919, she was arrested for her political engagement, but released after she was elected to the city council for the USPD in June. Hedwig Kampf belonged to the city council until 1924 and had a daughter named Anneliese. After the seizure of power by the Nazis fled in 1933 before her husband and her daughter to Paris. Hedwig Kämper followed in 1935, but stayed in Paris when Richard and Anneliese emigrated to the USA. There she got by with cleaning work until she was deported to the Gurs internment camp in 1940. After the end of the war she wanted to return to Munich, but died shortly after she had got all the papers together because of a defective gas stove.
Honors
The journalist Mira Alexandra Schnoor wrested Hedwig Kämpfer from oblivion in 1998 with the feature "Hedwig Kämpfer - Traces of a Life: Between Soviet Republic, Emigration and Camp Imprisonment" on Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 2017 a street in the Munich district of Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied was named after Hedwig Kämpfer.
Web links
- Brief portrait
- Brief portrait on muenchen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kaempfer, Richard. House of Bavarian History , accessed January 26, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fighter, Hedwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaempfer, Hedwig; Nibler, Hedwig (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (USPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1947 or June 8, 1947 |
| Place of death | Paris |