Hildegard Ollenhauer

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Hildegard Ollenhauer , called Hilde , (* December 12, 1902 in Magdeburg ; † August 13, 1995 in Bad Oldesloe ) was a German social politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

The sister of the later SPD chairman Erich Ollenhauer grew up in a social democratic family. Her father was a bricklayer, her mother an ironer ; both belonged to the SPD and the union.

After attending elementary school and completing a commercial apprenticeship, Hilde Ollenhauer worked for an insurance company, in a bookstore and in the office of the Socialist Workers 'Youth , which she had already joined as a teenager and was a girls' representative on the national board.

At the age of 16 Hilde Ollenhauer joined the socialist AfA-Bund (a forerunner of the later DAG ), at 19 she joined the SPD. In 1923 she moved to Hamburg, where from 1928 to 1933 she was managing director of the Hamburg Youth Committee , an amalgamation of various youth associations. At the beginning of 1933 she became a citizen of the SPD, but a few months later, after the Nazis came to power, she was expelled along with the other SPD members. In an attempt to save funds from the now banned SPD from being seized by the new rulers, she was briefly detained. At the instigation of the Hitler Youth , she also lost her position on the youth committee and was unemployed for some time before she managed to find accommodation as a clerk in an association for holiday welfare founded by teachers. After this was taken over by the NS-Volkswohlfahrt , Hilde Ollenhauer joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 in order to keep her position in the NSV. In 1941/42 she completed an apprenticeship at the Social Pedagogical Institute and was transferred to Magdeburg after the devastating bombing raids in the summer of 1943 to look after evacuees from Hamburg and northern Germany.

After the end of the war, Ollenhauer initially stayed in Magdeburg and worked as an accountant and typist in a state- owned company . In 1950, however, she moved to the West, finally came back to Hamburg via Marienfelde and Bonn and was employed as a career advisor at the Hamburg employment office until she retired in 1962 .

Politics and honorary positions

Back in Hamburg, Ollenhauer got involved again for the SPD and was a member of the Hamburg-Nord district assembly from 1953 to 1957 and of the Hamburg citizenship from 1957 to 1974. There she was among other things chairwoman of the Social Policy Committee (1961–1974), member of the parliamentary group executive (1966–1974) and of the Presidium of the Citizenship (1970–1974). In addition, she was sent by her parliamentary group from 1958 to 1970 as a deputy to the youth authority.

In addition, she has been involved in the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) since 1950 , from 1962 to 1986 as a member of the Hamburg State Executive, in the AWO Federal Committee and up to the age of 85 as an honorary director of an AWO day care center in Hamburg-Volksdorf .

From 1970 to 1993 Ollenhauer was also the chairwoman of the board of trustees of the German Aid Association , and was involved for many years on the board of the Association for Disabled Aid eV and on the advisory board of a retirement home.

Honors

literature

Web links

  • Rita Bake: Hildegard Ollenhauer . In: Hamburg women's biographies database (= online offer of the State Center for Political Education Hamburg)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hamburgische Biographie 5, p. 282 f.
  2. ^ Website of the Hilde Ollenhauer House in Magdeburg-Reform , last accessed on January 23, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Ollenhauer, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ollenhauer, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1995
Place of death Bad Oldesloe