Helga Timm

Helga Magdalena Timm (born July 11, 1924 in Hamburg ; † December 6, 2014 in Darmstadt ) was a German politician and historian .

Timm studied history, Latin and education from 1946 to 1952. She did her doctorate in 1952 at the University of Hamburg under Fritz Fischer with a study on the failure of the grand coalition under Hermann Müller (1930). Her dissertation was published in 1953 as the first study by the Commission on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties . From 1953 to 1965 she worked as a research assistant at the UNESCO Institute of Youth in Gauting . In 1965 she went to the Academy of Labor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main as a lecturer .

Timm had been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since 1946 . From 1946 to 1952 she was also a member of the Socialist German Student Union . She was a member of the German Bundestag from October 20, 1969 to December 20, 1990 (six electoral terms) . She was elected via the state list of the SPD in Hesse . From 1973 to 1987 she was the parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group .

She was a member of the Presidium of the German Society for the United Nations .

Helga Timm was buried in the Darmstadt forest cemetery.

Web links

• Literature by and about Helga Timm in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ At the side of Brandt and Schmidt ( Memento from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ^ Helga Timm: The German Social Policy and the Break of the Grand Coalition in March 1930 (= Contributions to the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties , Vol. 1), Droste, Düsseldorf 1953.
3. ^ DGVN Presidium .