Johanna Himmler

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Johanna Bertha Clara Himmler , née Mildner , (born September 20, 1894 in Chemnitz , † October 13, 1972 in Nordhausen ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

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After attending the elementary school in Chemnitz, Himmler worked as a commercial clerk. From 1917 she belonged to the Spartakusbund . She has been a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) since it was founded. In the 1920s she worked in a department store. In addition, she was active as a functionary in her party and in the union for proletarian women. In 1925 she was expelled from the Central Association of Employees to which she had previously belonged. She was also a member of the regional committee of the Working Group of Socialist Organization. In 1923 she married Hans Himmler (1890–1970).

After she had been city councilor in Chemnitz for her party from 1927 to 1931, Himmler sat in the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933 as a member of the KPD for constituency 30 “Chemnitz-Zwickau” . After the Reichstag fire in February 1933, she went underground , was finally arrested, but released again after a relatively short time. In 1939 she was arrested again, was soon released again and subsequently worked in a shop owned by KPD sympathizers. After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Himmler was arrested again and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , from which she was liberated in 1945.

In mid-June 1945 she and her husband Hans Himmler moved to the badly destroyed Nordhausen in Thuringia, as the Chemnitz apartment was destroyed in the bombing. Hans Himmler was Lord Mayor of Nordhausen from 1946 to 1952. She then worked as an unpaid city councilor and became a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Thuringia, then a member of the elected Thuringian State Parliament. She was also the chairwoman of the Nordhäuser Antifa Women's Committee and co-founder of the Democratic Women's Association Germany (DFD). At the beginning of the 1950s she resigned as a city councilor for health reasons and since then has been active in various voluntary functions at the SED, DFD and VdN.

Johanna Himmler died on October 13, 1972 in Nordhausen and was buried on October 18, 1972.

literature

  • Himmler, Johanna . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
  • Lauerwald, Paul: Life and Struggle of Comrade Hanna Himmler . Published by the commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the Nordhausen district leadership of the SED. Nordhausen, 1980. (Fighters against fascism, role models for young people; Volume 3)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Gruber: Women and Socialism, Socialism and Women , 1998, p. 161.
  2. ↑ Claus Füllberg-Stolberg: Women in concentration camps. Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbrück , 1994, p. 211.
personal data
SURNAME Himmler, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mildner, Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1972
Place of death Nordhausen