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Ilse Reichel-Koß , née Pottgießer, (born July 13, 1925 in Berlin-Wedding , † December 17, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German politician. She was a member of the SPD and from 1971 to 1981 Senator for Family, Youth and Sport in Berlin.

Life

Raised in the Freie Scholle in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf , Reichel-Koß completed her schooling in 1942 with the secondary school leaving certificate. She began her professional career as an employee in the Reinickendorf district office , later as a clerk in the Berlin magistrate. Her political role model was Ella Kay , whose employee she was from 1959 to 1962. From 1965 to 1971 she was the district councilor for youth and sport in Reinickendorf. From 1971 to 1981 she was a senator in the Berlin state government. She was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives until 1989.

Ilse Reichel-Koss was buried anonymously in the Tegel cemetery "Am Fließal".

Services

Under her leadership, the city's first adventure playground was built in Reinickendorf . In 1976 she opened the first women's shelter in the Federal Republic in Berlin. Like no other member of the Berlin Senate, she supported the citizens' initiative movement , also through extensive funding programs for parent-child groups (parent-initiative day-care centers), adventure playgrounds and women's shelters. The “Bürgerinitiative Eltern-Kinder-Kreis Gropiusstadt Nord eV”, founded in 1969 and probably the oldest still working citizens' initiative in Berlin, took over a troubled riding stables in Lichtenrade in 1990 with the active support of Ilse Reichel and successfully established it as the “Children's Farm Groß-Ziethen”; he bears her name in her honor.

To this day Reichel-Koß has the reputation of being the most down-to-earth, most committed and politically most open state youth minister of the Berlin post-war period. Her long-time employee (1971–1981) and political colleague Ingrid Stahmer chose Ilse Reichel-Koß as her political role model (analogous to Ella Kay / Ilse Reichel) and continued her ideas in the youth department of the Berlin Senate from 1990 and 1994 to 1999, with strong support from Ilse Reichel in the House of Representatives and in the SPD.

Honors

The Presidium of the German Gymnastics Federation awarded her the Walter Kolb plaque on November 2, 1975.

See also

• Senate Schütz II - Senate Schütz III - Senate Stobbe I - Senate Stobbe II

literature

• Social Pedagogical Institute Berlin (Ed.): Taking sides: Contributions to the development of a new professionalism in child and family assistance. Festschrift for Ilse Reichel on her 60th birthday, Berlin 1985.
• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 302.
• Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, pp. 198-205.
• Ilse Reichel-Koß, Senator for Family, Youth and Sport in Berlin. In: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who in social work. Freiburg im Breisgau (Lambertus Verlag) 1998, 491 f.
• August Bebel Institute (Ed.): Ilse Reichel: “Taking sides for the youth”. Ilse Reichel - Berliner, social democrat, committed youth politician. 10th anniversary brochure, December 2003.
• Dieter Kreft : Reichel-Koss, Ilse , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 491f.

Web links

• SPD Berlin - Ilse Reichel-Koß
• Ilse Reichel children's farm in Groß-Ziethen
• Tegel cemetery "Am Fließal"