Hermione Berthold

Hermine Berthold (born March 22, 1896 in Bremen ; † June 2, 1990 in Bremen) was a worker, a politician ( SPD ), resistance fighter and member of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

As Hermine Brühning, she was the illegitimate daughter of a maid in Bremen- Hastedt . Her mother then married her stepfather and so she grew up with her seven step-siblings. She attended elementary school and then, like Käthe Popall, was employed at the jute spinning and weaving mill in Bremen in Walle . In 1918 she married the seaman and dock worker Hermann Berthold, with whom she had three children.

Politics and resistance

In addition to her work at the jute, she was involved early on in the work of the textile trade union and consumer cooperative, and became a member of the socialist youth workers and the workers' sports club of Hastedt. In 1918 she joined the USPD and was in the SPD from 1922 . She was active in the women's group of the SPD and in the union- related consumer cooperative Vorwärts Bremen . From 1930 to 1933 Berthold was a member of the Bremen citizenship .

During the time of National Socialism she was actively involved in illegality. She and other Social Democratic members were arrested by the Gestapo in 1934 , had to spend four years in the Lübeck women's penal institution and in 1939 was punished again with three months in prison.

After the Second World War in 1945, Berthold was on the board of the SPD women's group in Bremen together with Anna Stiegler . She was also active again in consumption , now on the supervisory board. With the communist Käthe Popall, whom she got to know better during her imprisonment, she founded the women's guild of the consumer cooperative. From 1946 to 1959 she was again a member of the Bremen citizenship. Here she was active in the deputations for food and agriculture, consumer issues, work and reparation and in the Bremen consumer committee. She held her deputy mandate until 1967. The citizenry elected her a member of the second Federal Assembly in 1954 , which re-elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President.

From the 1960s until 1977 she lived in the Vahr , later in a home for the elderly of the workers' welfare in Bremen- Gröpelingen . Her life as a worker is described as upright and political.

Honors

The Hermine-Berthold-Straße in Bremen-Hastedt has been named after her.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Renate Meyer-Braun: Hermine Berthold , in women in parliament! Bremen parliamentarians 1919 to 1951 , Bremen 1991.