Johanna Kühn

Johanna "Hanna" Hedwig Elisabeth Kühn (born September 9, 1892 in Groß Liniewo , Berent district ; † October 12, 1978 in Pretoria , South Africa ), née Ziebell, was a German politician ( SPD ).

Johanna Ziebell was the daughter of a village school teacher and worked as a seasonal worker or housekeeper. In 1916 she married Heinrich Kühn (1894–1981), who later became a union employee, and in 1921 she joined the SPD. In the Berlin election in 1925 , Johanna Kühn was elected to the Berlin city council for the constituency of Charlottenburg 7 . After 1928 the couple moved to Silesia because Heinrich Kühn was employed by a trade union there. After the National Socialists “ seized power ” in 1933, she did illegal work, among others with Ella Kay and Erna Maraun . This also included courier trips to Prague , where Friedrich Stampfer was on the board of the exiled SPD .

After the Second World War , Kühn was elected to the District Assembly of Charlottenburg and the City Assembly of Greater Berlin in the first Berlin election in 1946 . At the end of 1948 she emigrated to South Africa, where her son had lived since 1935.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 158 (331 pages).
• Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0240-2 , p. 157.
• Active Museum Association : Put in front of the door - Berlin city councilors and members of the magistrate persecuted under National Socialism 1933–1945. Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , p. 262.