Helene Gehse

Helene Gehse (born April 3, 1902 in Braunschweig , † August 23, 1982 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Helene Gehse was the daughter of a traffic inspector and initially studied philology at the University of Berlin , but dropped out. She worked as a secretary at various companies and corporations, most recently at the "Reich Committee of German Youth Associations", where Hermann Maaß was the managing director. Gehse also wrote for the magazine “Das Junge Deutschland”. With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Maaß was dismissed, but asked Gehse to stay with the "Reich Committee" despite the " conformity " of all youth associations. As a result, she was subordinated to the "youth leader of the German Empire" Baldur von Schirach . She was able to provide Maaß and Bruno Leuschner with information.

After the Second World War , Gehse was head of a foreign language and translation office, later in the scientific department of the SPD Berlin . She ran for the Berlin election in 1948 , but was only able to move up for Georg Stücklen in February 1949 . In the following election in 1950 Gehse was only able to move up for Kurt Arnold in June 1951 , and in 1954 she finally left parliament.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 102 (331 pages).
• Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0240-2 , p. 102.