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Kunigunde Fischer (around 1920)

Kunigunde Fischer (born November 10, 1882 in Speikern , † February 21, 1967 in Karlsruhe ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Kunigunde Fischer was born as Kunigunde Bachmeyer in Middle Franconia as the daughter of a farmer and mill and sawmill owner. From 1889 to 1896 she attended the Ottensoos elementary school . She had been married to the printer Kaspar Fischer since 1904 and their daughter Anna was born on January 23, 1916.

She had a keen desire to get involved socially. Since 1912 she worked in the poor, prisoner, war, infant, child and youth welfare. From 1914 on she was a member of the Poor's Commission and from 1914 to 1916 a member of the War Welfare Committee in Karlsruhe.

For her, this could best be realized in concepts developed by the SPD, so she joined the SPD. In 1919 she was one of the first three women to join the Karlsruhe city ​​council . She remained a city councilor in Karlsruhe until 1922. There she laid the foundation stone for a local children's recreation facility, which is now a matter of course in Karlsruhe. Together with others, she built up the workers' welfare organization and was its chairman from 1925.

Also in 1919 she was elected to the Baden state parliament, to which she belonged until 1933. She campaigned for social and school issues in numerous committees.

When Mayor Julius Finter called for the establishment of the Karlsruhe Emergency Community on November 10, 1930, she was a member of the working committee.

At the beginning of the Nazi era , she was jailed like many other like-minded people. Despite the bitter years that followed, she survived the war and in 1946 made her political and organizational experience available for the democratic reconstruction and was again city councilor in Karlsruhe from 1946 to 1959.

Honors

On November 4, 1957, Fischer was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with the Order of Merit.

On May 18, 1965, she was made an honorary citizen of the city of Karlsruhe. When she died on February 21, 1967, an obituary could have published the sentence that the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten wrote five years earlier on her eightieth birthday: “She realized the idea of ​​socialism modestly and without any personal effort out every party horizon ”.

In 1966 the Kunigunde-Fischer-Haus nursing home was named after her. On the 50th anniversary of her death in February 2017, a path was named after her in the southern part of Karlsruhe .

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See e.g. B. 17th session of the Baden State Parliament on April 20, 1932 Agenda item: Discussion of the budget estimate of the Ministry of Culture and Education, Chapter 9 Primary Schools; Negotiations of the Baden Landtag, fourth legislative period (1929–1933), third session, Minutes Volume 2, Col. 948ff.
  2. Jump up ↑ Ernst Otto Bräunche: " Grabbing power" and "Gleichschaltung" 1933 In: Stadt Karlsruhe - Stadtarchiv (ed.): Karlsruhe - the city history , Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1998, ISBN 3-7617-0353-8 , p. 406.
  3. ^ Paritätische Sozialdienste Karlsruhe. Retrieved January 25, 2016 .
  4. ^ Kunigunde-Fischer-Weg: Political Pioneer. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Kunigunde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachmeyer, Kunigunde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Speikern
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1967
Place of death Karlsruhe