Helene Beer

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Helene Beer (* December 6, 1895 in Berlin as Helene Mohrhardt, † after 1965) was a German politician ( LDP ). From 1947 to 1949 she was deputy chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD) and from 1948 to 1949 a member of the German People's Council of the Soviet occupation zone .

Life

After the Second World War , Helene Beer became a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDP) in June 1945. On August 23, 1945, she was one of the founders of the Central Women's Committee at the Magistrate of Greater Berlin and was chairwoman of the committee with equal rights alongside Elli Schmidt , Toni Wohlgemuth and Hildegard Staehle . In January 1946, she was elected to the then main committee of the LDP as the head of the women's department of the LDP state executive in Berlin.

After the 1st delegates' conference of the anti-fascist women's committees in Berlin on July 13 and 14, 1946, decided to form a central women's committee of the Soviet occupation zone with equal representation, it was formed on July 29, 1946 with Käthe Kern , Margarete Ehlert and Anne-Marie Durand- Wever elected as full chairperson. In December 1946 she was a participant in a working conference in Berlin that formed a “Preparatory Committee for the Creation of a Women's Organization”. In January 1947, she was appointed chairman of the program commission by this committee.

At the founding congress of the DFD in March 1947 in the Berlin Admiralspalast she was elected deputy chairwoman of the DFD and confirmed in this position at the 2nd Federal Congress of the DFD in May 1948.

At the 2nd People's Congress, which took place in Berlin on March 17 and 18, 1948, she was elected a member of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet Zone and was a member of the People's Council's constitutional committee.

When the district office in Berlin-Treptow was replaced on December 17, 1948, she was elected district councilor for nutrition. Due to denunciations, she resigned two years later. She lived in West Berlin .

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. 866.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First board meeting of the Central Women's Committee . In: Neues Deutschland , August 3, 1946, p. 2.
  2. ^ The Constitutional Committee of the People's Council . In: Neue Zeit , April 17, 1948, p. 2.
  3. ↑ District Office Treptow elected . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 18, 1948, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohrhardt, Helene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (LDPD)
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1965