Johanna Tesch

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Johanna Tesch

Johanna Friederike Tesch , née Carillon (born March 24, 1875 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 13, 1945 in Ravensbrück concentration camp ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Born as the daughter of master tailor Gustav Carillon, Johanna Carillon worked in her parents' household until she married in 1900. She had three sons. In 1902 she was one of the co-founders of the educational association for women and girls and worked as a leader in the association of domestic and office workers. In 1906 Tesch became the first chairwoman of the Frankfurt branch of the Central Association of Domestic and Office Workers, and in 1916 a member of the city deputation for the insane and epileptic. Tesch joined the SPD in 1909. (Until 1908, women in Prussia were forbidden to become members of a political party.) The entry date in the membership book was 1902.

Johanna Tesch (left) in 1919 with the other female members of the MSPD parliamentary group

Tesch was a member of the German National Assembly in 1919 and a member of the SPD parliamentary group in the Reichstag from 1920 to 1924 . Since 1933 she lived in seclusion with her husband in the Frankfurt district of Riederwald .

After the failed assassination attempt on 20 July 1944 on Adolf Hitler Johanna Tesch was on 22 August 1944 in the framework of the Action grid arrested at the age of 69 years by the Nazis and the women's concentration camp Ravensbrueck placed where it March 13, 1945, the consequences who died in custody (likely malnutrition ). She regularly wrote to her family in postcards and letters that were censored by the SS in order to reassure them.

Commemoration

Tesch memorial plaque on her house in Frankfurt-Riederwald
Johanna-Tesch-Platz underground station

Since 1995, a memorial plaque has been on her home at Am alten Volkshaus 1 (formerly: Max-Hirsch-Str. 32) to commemorate the “campaigner for democracy and justice”. The city of Frankfurt am Main honored them by renaming the Schulze-Delitzsch-Platz to Johanna-Tesch-Platz.

Berlin commemorates the woman from Frankfurt with one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag who were murdered by the National Socialists near the Reichstag and on a street in Niederschöneweide . A kindergarten of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) in Gummersbach is named after her. The SPD Frankfurt-Riederwald and the AWO Frankfurt have donated a prize for social commitment in their honor.

On March 18, 2005, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Johanna Tesch's death, the SPD organized a memorial event and a narrative café. On March 13, 2020, the 75th anniversary of her death, a picture lecture on life and a reading from Johanna Tesch's letters were to take place in the Institute for Urban History . This event was canceled at short notice due to the corona virus and should be rescheduled.

literature

  • Johanna Tesch . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume I. Deceased personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hannover 1960, p. 309.
  • Hanna Eckhardt: Johanna Tesch (1875¦1945). Frankfurt campaigner for social justice . In: Association for Frankfurt Workers' History. Bulletin of the Association for Frankfurt Workers' History. Vol. 19 (2005), issue 31.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Felix Blömeke: Tesch, Johanna Friederike . In: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 464-465 .

Web links

Commons : Johanna Tesch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Blömeke: Tesch, Johanna Friederike . S. 464-465 .
  2. ^ Johanna-Tesch-Strasse. In: Kaupert's street guide through Berlin. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Lecture: "Today I have some hair root catarrh" Johanna Tesch in her letters from 1919 to 1925. Institute for City History Frankfurt, March 13, 2020, accessed on March 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tesch, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carillon, Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1945
Place of death Ravensbrück