Katherine Kleikamp

Katherine Kleikamp b. Kirchner (born April 15, 1897 in Eberswalde , † July 12, 1988 in Augsburg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Katherine Kirchner attended a middle school in Breslau , then in secondary schools in Poznan , Glogau and Szczecin , in 1917 she made her high school. She studied German, history and art history at the universities of Berlin , Marburg , Munich and Greifswald , and in 1924 she passed the state examination. In 1925 she married the lawyer and later Berlin MP Karl Kleikamp (1894–1952). Until 1928 she was the director of a primary school and a teacher at a private school for children with learning disabilities. Kleikamp later became a freelance writer and wrote for various newspapers, such as the Berliner Tageblatt , the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung .

After the Second World War , Kleikamp joined the SPD in 1945. She now wrote for the women's magazine Sie , the Telegraf and The Socialist Century , which was published by Louise Schroeder . From 1949 to 1950 she was district councilor for public education in the Steglitz district . In the Berlin election in 1950 , Kleikamp was elected to the district assembly in the Charlottenburg district, but left in April 1952. In the following election in 1954 she was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which she then belonged until 1958.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 144-145 (331 pages).
• Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0240-2 , pp. 147-148.