Lilly Guardian

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Lilly Wächter , née Schuster (born June 26, 1899 in Karlsruhe ; died December 20, 1989 in Bühl ) was a German functionary of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany and a member of the state parliament of the SPD, who was excluded from her party in 1952.

Life

Lilly Wächter came from a Jewish family in Karlsruhe and, like her parents, became a member of the SPD in 1923 . She lived in Rastatt and was persecuted as a " half-Jew " during the reign of National Socialism . During this time she lost her father, mother, brother and 17 other family members. She worked as an office clerk until the Second World War , then was drafted and worked in a factory.

After the war she joined the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (DFD) in West Germany . She became known as a member of a delegation of women from the International Women's Democratic Federation who were in Korea , for whom she was promoted by Hermann Weber . At the beginning of May 1951 she traveled with 20 women from 18 countries via the Soviet Union , China to North Korea . The Korean War , which has been going on since 1950, was the reason for the trip. After their return, Wächter reported to meetings in the Federal Republic of Germany about alleged war crimes committed by American and South Korean soldiers against the civilian population of North Korea. Lilly Wächter was a member of the Hessian state parliament . In October 1951 she was arrested in Stuttgart by the American court of the Allied High Commission and charged. The Labor -Abgeordnete Monica Felton came as a witness and Denis Nowell Pritt as a defender . Wächter was sentenced to 15,000 DM and eight months' imprisonment. She was released after three months as a result of her pre-trial detention. Guardian in 1952 because of their work in the DFD from the SPD ruled out . In July 1953 she took over the post of 1st chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Association in the Federal Republic, which she held until 1956, then she withdrew from public life.

literature

  • Hermann and Gerda Weber : Living according to the “left principle”. Memories from five decades . Christian Links, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86153-405-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Ursula Schröter: DFD West. Excursus on Lilli Wächter . Pp. 31-35. In: Ursula Schröter, Renate Ullrich and Rainer Ferchland: Patriarchy in the GDR. Subsequent discoveries in DFD documents, DEFA documentaries and sociological surveys . Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-320-02210-5 . (= Texts of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation 65) PDF file

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register of StA Karlsruhe, No. 1388/1899
  2. ^ Death register StA Bühl, No. 290/1989
  3. ^ State Office for Reparation, Freiburg branch.
  4. ↑ The synagogue in Rastatt (district town)
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 8, 1952, p. 4.
  6. ↑ Hermann and Gerda Weber: Life according to the “left principle”. Memories from five decades . P. 80.
  7. ^ Wolfgang Runge: 60 years ago: West German hunt for left social democrats. In: redglobe.de. February 8, 2013, accessed May 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Guardian, Lilly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuster, Lilly (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German functionary of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany and member of the state parliament of the SPD
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1989
Place of death Buhl