Helene Schoettle

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Helene Schoettle (born April 19, 1903 as Helene Oßwald in Münster near Stuttgart , † August 24, 1994 in Stuttgart) was a German local politician. From 1951 to 1975 she was a member of the Stuttgart municipal council for the SPD .

Life

Schoettle comes from a social democratic family and founded the workers' youth association Münster in 1919 (in today's district of Stuttgart-Münster ). In 1925 she married Erwin Schoettle , who later became a member of the Bundestag for the SPD. In 1928 their daughter Doris was born. Both fled to Switzerland in 1933 and to England in 1939. After the war, she built a network of sewing rooms in Stuttgart for the workers' welfare organization. Helene Schoettle was a member of the Stuttgart municipal council for the SPD from 1951 to 1975. Her topics were child and senior policy. Helene Schoettle was a member of the board of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt from 1947 to 1973 and was co-founder of the association Lebenshilfe for the mentally handicapped in 1960 . Helene Schoettle is buried with her husband in Department 20b at the Stuttgart Forest Cemetery.

Honors

Grave of Helene and Erwin Schoettle

In 1983 she received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class, and in 1993 the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg . She was also the godmother of the Heslacher Tunnel . A school for the mentally handicapped in Stuttgart has been named after her since 2007. The Helene Schoettle relay in Stuttgart-Süd is also named after her.

literature

  • City archive Stuttgart (ed.): Rubble women of local politics. Women in the Stuttgart municipal council 1945–1960 . Stuttgart 2013, p. 37 f.
  • Maja Riepl-Schmidt : Helene Schoettle, née Osswald. Help and care for others. In: dies .: Against the boiled and ironed-out life. Women's emancipation in Stuttgart since 1800. 2nd edition. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-87407-267-3 , pp. 285-290.
  • Katja Schalla-Roth: Helene Schoettle. Advocate of the weak . In: Lauter Frauen - Detected in Baden-Württemberg. 47 portraits. Theiss, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1525-1 , pp. 146–149 (booklet for the TV series of the same name by the Baden-Württemberg state show of Südwestrundfunk ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On Helene Schoettle's tombstone, the date of death is August 23, 1994.
  2. ↑ Maja Riepl-Schmidt: Against the overcooked and ironed-out life. Women's emancipation in Stuttgart since 1800 . 2nd Edition. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-87407-267-3 , p. 290.
  3. ^ Homepage of the Helene Schoettle School
personal data
SURNAME Schoettle, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oßwald, Helene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster , Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1994
Place of death Stuttgart