Konstanze Wegner

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Konstanze Wegner (née Overhoff ; born February 27, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian and politician ( SPD ).

Life

As the daughter of the industrial clerk and writer Julius Overhoff (1898–1977) and his wife Edith (née Kloeppel; 1904–1986) Wegner spent her childhood in Frankfurt am Main, where she received private lessons between the ages of 6 and 11 before she was from Attended the Anna-Schmidt-Realgymnasium for girls from 1948 to 1954 . After moving her family to Ludwigshafen Wegner since May 1954 on humanistic Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium taught and laid there in the spring of 1957, the High School from.

She then studied classical philology , ancient history and archeology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg for three semesters , then two semesters ancient and modern history as well as English philology at the Free University of Berlin . In the winter semester of 1959, Wegner moved to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , where she received her doctorate in July 1964 with a thesis on Theodor Barth and the Liberal Association at the Philosophical Faculty , supervised by Hans Rothfels .

Between 1965 and 1970 Wegner was a housewife and freelance worker for Bavarian , South German and Hessian radio . From 1970 to 1977 she worked as a research assistant at the University of Mannheim and, in the meantime, edited an edition of sources on left-wing liberalism in the Weimar Republic .

Since 1961 she has been with the publisher Dr. Michael Wegner (* 1935 Hamburg; board member of the Bibliographisches Institut publishing house ) is married and has a daughter and son with him.

Political activity

Wegner joined the SPD in 1970 and was elected to the district executive committee of the SPD Mannheim in 1978. From 1979 to 1983 and from 1987 to 1999 she was a member of the state executive committee of the Baden-Württemberg SPD . Between 1981 and 1984 she was also a member of the state board of the working group of social democratic women in Baden-Württemberg and from 2003 to 2009 Baden-Württemberg's state chairman of the working group SPD 60 plus . As a member of parliament, Wegner was a member of the Mannheim municipal council between 1980 and 1988 and then of the German Bundestag from 1988 to 2002 .

Wegner is a member of the Education and Science Union , the Workers' Welfare Association , the Friends of Nature , Pro Familia , the German Child Protection Association , the German Women's Ring , Amnesty International and numerous local, social and cultural associations.

Publications

  • Theodor Barth and the Liberal Association. Studies on the history of left-wing liberalism in Wilhelmine Germany (= Tübingen studies on history and politics. Vol. 24, ISSN  0564-4267 ). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1968 (at the same time: Tübingen, University, dissertation, 1967).
  • Left liberalism in the Weimar Republic. The governing bodies of the German Democratic Party and the German State Party. 1918–1933 (= sources on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Series 3: The Weimar Republic. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-770-05104-1 .

literature

  • Wolfgang Brach: The Mannheim City Council 1945–1984. Biographical manual of the lord mayors, mayors and honorary members of the Mannheim municipal council (= special publication of the Mannheim City Archives. Vol. 8). Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-87804-162-4 .
  • Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MPs since 1919. Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament and the Baden-Württemberg State Center for Political Education. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 , p. 220.

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