Käthe Hoffrage

Käthe Hoffrage (born June 22, 1920 in Schiffdorf ; † November 14, 1989 in Bremerhaven ) was a Bremen politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

Family, education and work

Court question was the daughter of the bricklayer Carl Cordt (SPD), who became head of the city ​​council in Bremerhaven after 1945 . She grew up in Schiffdorferdamm , which was incorporated into Wesermünde in 1927 (Bremerhaven from 1947). She shaped her social democratic and trade union home. In 1937 she married the bricklayer Wilhelm Hoffrage.
After completing a commercial apprenticeship, she worked in retail. From 1951 to 1961 she worked for the public large-scale purchasing company of German consumer cooperatives (GEG) (presumably in the Bremerhaven fish shipping company ). Here she became a member of the works council in 1953.

Politics and union

Hoffrage had been a member of the SPD in Bremerhaven since 1950. For a long time she was a member of the board of the SPD local association Schiffdorferdamm, in the SPD sub-district of Bremerhaven and in the state executive committee of the SPD Bremen . She was active as a local politician and in various party committees a. a. in the women's committee.

As a trade unionist, she was active in the food-pleasure-restaurants union (NGG) and on the Bremerhaven district board of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB).

From 1959 to 1979 she was a member of the Bremen citizenship for 20 years and was active in various deputations and committees of the citizenship. From 1975 to 1979 she took the position of secretary of the citizenship. After that she was a member of the deputation for the fishing port from 1979 to 1983 .

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• Hartmut Bickelmann : Hoffrage, Käthe, geb. Curdt . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .