Johanne Reitze

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Johanne Reitze

Johanne Caroline Agnes Reitze , also Johanna Reitze (born January 16, 1878 in Hamburg ; died February 22, 1949 there ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

Gravestone in
the women's garden

Reitze came from a working-class family, was non-denominational and attended elementary school in Hamburg until 1893 . Afterwards Reitze worked first as a maid until the end of 1894 and then until her wedding with the journalist Johannes Carl Kilian-Reitze (also: Jean Reitze ; died † 1944) in 1900 as a worker in a book printing company. She came into contact with the labor movement through a lecture by August Bebel , her work and her husband.

During the First World War Reitze worked as a nurse in the war aid and the care of the bereaved. She was a member of the advisory board of the Hamburg War Supply Office and the food committee of the war kitchen . Little is known about their activities during the National Socialist era . She was persecuted by the National Socialists, in 1944 she was imprisoned by the Gestapo for several weeks as part of the Operation Grid and taken into " protective custody " and only released in 1945 by the Allies. In the bombing her home was destroyed.

The Reitzeweg in Hamburg-Groß Borstel (since 1951) and the Johanne-Reitze-Weg in the Kleine Horst residential area in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf (since 2007) are named after her. Her tombstone is now in the women's garden at Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Political party

In 1902 Reitze joined the SPD. In 1906/07 she and her husband attended the party school in Berlin for six months. In addition, she attended academic courses between 1904 and 1907, and from 1907 she appeared as a speaker for the party and speaker for August Bebel. Within the SPD, she was one of the supporters of the truce policy and supported the approval of war credits in the First World War . Reitze was significantly involved when, in April 1918, a joint rally for women’s right to vote was held for the first time in the Hamburg trade union building . From 1916 to 1919 she was a member of the state executive committee of the SPD in Hamburg and was a delegate to Nazi party rallies and women's conferences of the SPD until 1931. From 1919 to 1933 Reitze was a member of the Reich Party Committee of the SPD. After 1945 she participated in the reconstruction of the SPD and the workers' welfare in Hamburg.

MPs

Johanne Reitze belonged 1919 /20 as one of the few women of the Weimar National Assembly of. From 1920 until 1932 she was a member of the Reichstag . In the Reichstag, Reitze devoted himself - like most other politicians - to the so-called women's policy fields, namely social policy, welfare, youth, health and school policy. In particular, she campaigned for the improvement of the social rights of workers. From 1919 to 1921 she was also a member of the Hamburg parliament .

Publications

  • The right of women. Social democracy in the struggle for the economic and social position of women. Presentation at the SPD party congress in Augsburg 1922. JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1922 Digitized
  • Johanna Reitze, Clara Bohm-Schuch , Marie Arning u. a .: The woman in politics. In: Women in politics, party work, workers' welfare, educational work! Report from the women's conference of the Hamburg-Nordwest district of the Social Democratic Party of Germany on October 4th and 5th, 1924 in Bremerhaven . Schmalfeldt, Bremen 1924.
  • Johanne Reitze, Ida Stengele , Käthe Hoppe and Helene Kaisen (eds.): 10 years of women's suffrage. Auerdruck, Hamburg 1928.

literature

  • Hermann Hillger : Handbook of the constituent German national assembly. Berlin, Leipzig 1919.
  • Johanne Reitza . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume I. Deceased personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hannover 1960, pp. 247–248.
  • Who is behind it - streets, squares and bridges in Hamburg named after women. (PDF)
  • Rita Bake : Reitze, Johann Caroline Agnes, b. Leopolt. In: Hamburg biography . Volume IV, p. 320, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 .
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rita Bake
  2. ↑ Hamburg address books; Franz Osterroth.
  3. ↑ a b c Johanna Reitze. In: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Vol. 8, 1998.
  4. ^ Franz Osterroth, p. 248.
  5. ^ Franz Osterroth.

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personal data
SURNAME Reitze, Johanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reitze, Johanne Caroline Agnes (full name); Reitze, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1949
Place of death Hamburg