Josefina Halein

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Josefina Halein , also Fina Halein (born January 21, 1904 in Mainz-Kastel as Josefina Nordmann , † March 2, 1990 in Mainz ), was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life

Halein was one of eight children of a worker and social democrat from Mainz-Kastel. After attending elementary school, she learned the trade of saleswoman from 1914. On August 28, 1926, she married the KPD member Karl Anton Halein . From 1928 to 1933 she was a member of the International Workers Aid (IAH). During the National Socialist era , Halein was questioned by the Gestapo in 1933 and 1936 . Her husband was arrested in 1933 and sentenced to one year in prison; later he was unemployed.

In 1946 Halein joined the KPD and the Trade, Banks and Insurance Union (HBV); until 1949 she was the HBV chairwoman for Mainz. From 1946 she worked for the city of Mainz in the care center for the victims of fascism, in the equalization office and in the welfare office. On June 14, 1946, she was divorced from Karl Anton Halein. In the KPD she became a member of the Mainz district executive committee in 1947 and a member of the Rheinhessen district leadership and the secretariat of the state executive committee of the KPD in 1948 . Halein was responsible for women's issues in all committees. In 1950 she became a member of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (DFD).

From 1946 to 1948 and from 1952 to 1956 Halein was city councilor in Mainz. On February 1, 1948, she replaced the resigned MP Paul Baumann in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, to which she belonged until 1951.

Halein was dismissed by the city of Mainz in 1951 for conducting a “referendum against remilitarization ” at the workplace. From 1952 to 1955 she was the organization secretary of the DFD; After the DFD was banned in 1955, she was charged with " secret bundling " and sentenced in November 1960 to a two-month suspended sentence by the Koblenz Regional Court . From 1955 Halein worked for the organization Frohe Ferien für alle Kinder , which was supposed to organize stays in FDJ holiday camps and was also banned in 1961. In September 1961 she was arrested for founding a substitute organization for the KPD , which was banned in 1956 , and sentenced as a “ringleader” in September 1962 to ten months in prison. The subject of the proceedings was the publication of the small newspaper “Mainzer Ruf”.

1968 Halein joined the newly founded German Communist Party (DKP).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information from Klaus J. Becker: The KPD in Rhineland-Palatinate 1946–1956 . von Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-7758-1393-4 , pp. 446f; Hedwig Brüchert: Josefina Halein, 1904–1990, accessed on May 23, 2011.
  2. ↑ Karl Halein at THW
  3. ↑ For the process, see Becker, KPD , p. 281.
  4. ↑ On the process, see Becker, KPD , p. 314f.
personal data
SURNAME Halein, Josefina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halein, Fina; Nordmann, Josefina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz-Kastel
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1990
Place of death Mainz