Helene Rosenhainer

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Helene Rosenhainer (married Keiling ; born June 12, 1899 in Leumnitz near Gera ; † March 19, 1983 in Gera) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life

Helene Rosenhainer came from a large working-class family. After attending elementary school, she worked in a knitting factory. In 1924 she joined the Communist Party (KPD). Three years later she was also a union member and in 1928 became chairwoman of the works council . Rosenhainer had been a member of the KPD sub-district leadership since 1924 and a member of the Thuringia district leadership from 1928 to 1930 . In June 1929 she became a member of the Central Committee of the KPD . On December 8, 1929, Rosenhainer was elected to the Landtag of Thuringia . In addition, she was a member of the Gera city ​​council .

Due to "personal disputes" Rosenhainer resigned from all party offices in the spring of 1932. Until May 25, 1932 she refused to resign from her seat as a member of the state parliament and city council. Leander Kröber became his successor in the state parliament . The KPD's Polbüro had previously recommended her exclusion. During the election campaign for the Reichstag elections in March 1933, however, she appeared again in public for her party.

In the same month Rosenhainer was held in protective custody for a few days . After another arrest on August 15, 1934 in Erfurt, she was charged in Kassel with “preparing for high treason ”. After the acquittal for “lack of evidence” on October 12, 1934 by the criminal division of the Kassel Higher Regional Court , she was released from prison. She later married. In 1943, Helene Keiling was sent to the Hallendorf labor education camp near Braunschweig for six weeks . After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , she was arrested and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and then to the Uckermark , Retzow and Salzwedel concentration camps .

After the end of the war , Keiling became a member of the KPD again until she joined the SED in 1946 . She no longer took on political functions. Helene Keiling died in Gera on March 19, 1983.

See also

literature

  • Butcher, Helene . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
  • Heike Stange : Documentation. In: Thuringian Landtag (ed.) “Now finally women can become members of parliament!” Thuringian women parliamentarians and their politics. Hain, Weimar 2003, pp. 220f, ISBN 3-89807-039-5 .
  • Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952: Biographisches Handbuch (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, large series . Volume 1 , no. 4 ). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 79-85 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ The first edition lists "Helene Rosenhainer-Fleischer". Dietz, Berlin 2004. p. 626.
  2. ↑ Stange also confuses Rosenhainer with Helene Fleischer .
personal data
SURNAME Rosenhainer, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keiling, Helene (married name); Rosenhainer-Fleischer, Helene (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Leumnitz near Gera
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1983
Place of death Gera