Helga von Hoffmann

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Helga von Hoffmann (born January 24, 1933 in Berlin , † December 5, 2005 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the SPD and a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

During her high school years, Helga von Hoffmann had the opportunity to spend a year in the USA as an exchange student. This experience shaped her entire professional life. From 1952 to 1960 she set up the Germany office of the school exchange organization AFS Internationale Schipendien in Hamburg and took over the management.

She married, had two daughters and was involved in the parent council, district parent council and the state school chamber.

From 1967 to 1992 she resumed her work in the student organization. Helga von Hoffmann died in 2005. In her honor, the AFS founded the Helga von Hoffmann Scholarship . On a small scale, it awards partial scholarships to exchange students who are characterized by special social commitment.

politics

Her political home was in the SPD district of Hamburg-Nord . From 1968 she worked in the core area committee of the local district assembly . Her local association Groß Borstel elected her to the board, she also rose to the SPD state executive, the state executive of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women and the party council .

From 1971 to 1986 she was a member of the Hamburg parliament. Her political priorities were in the areas of health, home affairs, women and social affairs. Together with other women from her parliamentary group, she initiated the establishment of the gender equality office for women, as well as a family planning center and the financing of women's shelters. In June 1977 she belonged together with Wulf Damkowski , Jan Ehlers , Bodo Fischer , Harro Frank , Hans-Jürgen Grambow , Frauke Martin , Lothar Reinhard , Ortwin Runde and Bodo Schümann to a group of ten SPD members of the Bundestag who were involved in the exclusion of the party of the Juso chairman Klaus Uwe Benneter in a letter to the party chairman Willy Brandt demanded that this prevent party regulatory proceedings against 56 Hamburg SPD members who had shown solidarity with Benneter. On September 10, 1986, she and her parliamentary group colleague Erhard Schäfer voted against the “security package” of the SPD Senate, which created 292 new jobs in the police. Apart from von Hoffmann and Schäfer, only the eight MPs on the Green Alternative List voted against the 14 million Deutschmark expensive program, while the remaining SPD MPs and the entire CDU parliamentary group voted for the Senate plan, which was a reaction to the hour-long encirclement by anti-nuclear demonstrators on the Heiligengeistfeld .

In 1991 Helga von Hoffmann resigned from the SPD. One of their reasons was the brutal deportation practice of the Social Democrat police in Hamburg.

swell

  • Hinnerk Fock (editor): Handbook of the Hamburg Citizenship, 11th electoral period.
  • State Center for Political Education Hamburg, database of women's biography

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The conflict in the SPD about the Juso boss" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from July 9, 1977, accessed on March 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "Hamburgs Sicherheitspaket" , in Hamburger Abendblatt dated September 11, 1986, accessed on May 25, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Helga von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), member of the Hamburg Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 2005
Place of death Hamburg