Katharina Seifried

Katharina Seifried (born May 29, 1904 in Bad Vilbel , † March 16, 1991 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German politician of the KPD .

Life

Katharina Seifried was born in Bad Vilbel as the eldest child of a working class family of 10. In 1928 she joined her father was SPD -member also the SPD in. In 1930 she switched to the KPD . As an active member, she spoke against National Socialism in public meetings . In connection with the discussion about the building of the armored cruiser (armored cruiser debate), which meant preparation for war for her, she was sentenced to nine and again to six months in prison in 1932 for "subversive statements". However , she was released on a hunger strike . With the beginning of the Nazi era, she was wanted on a wanted list and had to “go into hiding”. Even so, in 1933 she was inLeipzig arrested and taken to the Hohnstein concentration camp. There she suffered severe abuse from which she never fully recovered. She was released in May 1934, seriously ill.

In 1939 she married Karl Seifried and thus came to southern Germany. Her husband was used as a prisoner of war on the Channel coast for clearing mines, where he had a fatal accident in 1946. In 1946 she helped reorganize the KPD in Freiburg. She was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Baden from 1946 to 1947 and was elected as a member of the Baden State Parliament in 1947 . In June 1951, she resigned from her state parliament mandate. Until the KPD ban in 1956, she was a local politician in the city ​​council and in the district council . In 1968 she joined the newly founded DKP .

literature

• Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament - Southwest German delegates since 1919. Published by the State Center for Civic Education, Theiss-Verlag Stuttgart, 1992. ISBN 3-8062-1012-8