Helga Dickel

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Image and text from the Federal Archives : Berlin: Women of the Oder district practice solidarity with Vietnam. Signatures associated with sums of money on ribbons once again show the solidarity of the women of the Frankfurt-Oder district with the fighting Vietnamese people. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the IDFF, the DFD district board called on the women of the Oder district to take part in this solidarity campaign. I, IDFF Secretariat, in Berlin, the Secretary General of the IDFF, Cecilie Hugel - France - (2nd from left), and the members of the IDFF Secretariat: Helga Dickel (left) - FRG, Kate Molale (3rd from left) - South Africa -, Takako Tatematsu (2nd from right) - Japan and Emperatin Villarros (right) from Chile, the solidarity donation.

Helga Dickel (née Gerschbach ; born September 1, 1919 in Vohwinkel ; † February 17, 2004 ) was a German politician ( KPD ). From 1950 to 1954 she was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

After elementary school , Helga Dickel attended a vocational school and took a distance learning course to become a textile engineer. She worked as a weaver until 1936 .

Before 1933 she was a member of the KPD children's organization , a forerunner of the Young Pioneers organization . In 1945 she became a member of the KPD and remained so until 1956, the year of the ban . Dickel was also a member of the Textile Clothing Union , the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN), the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD) and the International Democratic Women's Federation (IDFF).

In the state elections in 1950, Dickel was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament via the KPD's state list. She was a member of parliament from July 5, 1950 to July 4, 1954. In May 1954, the immunity of KPD members Helga Dickel, Franz Herzner and Betty Pallas was lifted against the votes of the SPD and KPD in order to carry out legal proceedings against them.

On June 29, 1963, she was elected to the IDFF office as representative of the Federal Republic of Germany at the World Women's Congress in Moscow. In 1975 she moved to the German Democratic Republic , took on GDR citizenship and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). She remained a member of the SED until 1990.

Private

She was married to Karl Dickel (1908–1982), the older brother of the former Minister of the Interior of the GDR, Friedrich Dickel .

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany of May 5, 1954
  2. ^ New Germany of June 30, 1963
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 3, 1989, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Dickel, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerschbach, Helga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Vohwinkel
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2004