Ingeborg Sommer

Ingeborg Sommer (born November 14, 1923 in Stentsch ( Züllichau-Schwiebus district ), † September 18, 2001 in Bad Saarow ) was a German journalist, trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Ingeborg Sommer was born in Stentsch, then in the province of Brandenburg , in 1923 . The middle-class daughter was brought up strictly. At the request of her father, who was a customs officer and officer, she learned to shoot and ride. After graduating from high school, she first studied medicine in Berlin; even before the Physikum she was drafted into service during the Second World War . She was a medical assistant in Wismar and came to Timmendorfer Strand in April 1945 . After the end of the war, she temporarily worked as an office assistant in Lübeck , where her parents also came. She started studying at the North German Organ School in Lübeck, but was unable to continue for financial reasons. In 1946 she joined the SPD. From 1947 to 1950 she learned the trade of tailor. She then worked as a freelancer for the Lübeck Free Press , where she was later employed as an editor. In 1952 she founded the Lübeck local association of the German Union of Journalists , which belonged to the DGB union IG Druck und Papier .

In 1953 she became a full-time trade unionist in the DGB regional district of Nordmark , where she headed the women's department from July 1, 1953. She built around 20 women's groups in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lower Saxony. Her goal was to encourage women to act independently: women become something, provided they want something and they can do something! . She never saw herself as a quota woman and rejected equality policy: I don't care. I was never a quota! In 1960 she became head of the training and education department at DGB Nordmark. She was the only woman in the DGB to hold this position. Ingeborg Sommer was also the managing director of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arbeit und Leben , supervised scholarship holders at the Academy for Community Economics , which later became the University of Economics and Politics in Hamburg, was a member of the Hamburg social welfare authority and was an honorary labor judge. Her functions also included membership in the economic committee of the Schleswig-Holstein state women 's council, chairing the administrative committee of the Lübeck employment office and membership in the representative assembly of the LVA Schleswig-Holstein .

At the instigation of Berta Wirthel and Elly Linden , she went into politics. In 1967 she was elected to the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein , to which she belonged until 1975. Under pressure from the DGB Lübeck, she decided to give the chairmanship of the DGB district Lübeck priority over the state parliament mandate. In 1974 she was elected to the Lübeck citizenship . She belonged to the citizenry until 1990. Immediately after her first election she became the deputy city president elected in 1986, she was city president. In this role as the highest representative of the city, however, she came up against the limits set by women in society. When she had the honor of taking part as mayor in the Kringelhöge , the annual meeting of the Stecknitz driver's office, she was unloaded again because only men are allowed to take part to this day.

Ingeborg Sommer died in 2001 while on a trip to her birthplace in what is now Poland. The mayor of Lübeck, Bernd Saxe, praised her as “a very extraordinary woman”: With her, the Hanseatic city is losing one of its great personalities. She was a great role model with her tireless commitment to our city and the people who live in it, and with her powerful commitment to the interests of Lübeck. In addition, she has become a personal friend to me over the years.

Honors

Ingeborg Sommer received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1975, the Federal Cross of Merit First Class in 1987 and in 1990 the plaque of honor from the Lübeck Senate and the Freiherr vom Stein Medal of the State of Schleswig-Holstein.

literature

• Maria Zachow-Ortmann: Ingeborg Sommer in: Schleswig-Holstein Politicians of the Post-War Period, State Center for Political Education Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.), Kiel 1994 ISBN 3-88312-048-0 , pages 46 to 49

Web links

• Ingeborg Sommer in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament information system

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maria Zachow-Ortmann: Ingeborg Sommer in: Schleswig-Holstein Politicians of the Post-War Period Kiel 1994, page 47
2. ^ Maria Zachow-Ortmann: Ingeborg Sommer in: Schleswig-Holstein Politicians of the Post-War Period Kiel 1994, page 49
3. ↑ On Ingeborg Sommer's death