Lily Becker-Krier

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Lily Becker-Krier , pseudonym Ly (* 1898 ; † 1981 ) was a Luxembourg women's rights activist and trade unionist .

Life

Lily Becker, who worked as a shop girl in her youth, joined the Socialist Party of Luxembourg in 1919. In the same year, she first emerged as a political activist when she gave a public speech for the first time on the occasion of the demonstration against inflation allowances and food prices on August 13, 1919 in the Luxembourg capital. In the same year she tried to initiate the establishment of an association for female employees.

In 1920 Becker became assistant secretary for the secretariat of the trade union commission created in the same year. At this time she also began to write articles on women's issues and social problems for the weekly Proletarians . After the establishment of the Luxembourg Chamber of Labor ( French Chambre des salariés ) Becker took over the management of the same (until 1937). In 1927 she took part in the founding of the women's organization Foyer de la Femme , which she became vice-president.

Around 1925 Becker married the politician Pierre Krier , who in later years a. a. from 1937 to 1947 the office of Luxembourg Minister of Labor.

In the 1930s, Becker-Krier devoted himself to supporting refugees from National Socialist Germany.

On the occasion of the German occupation of Luxembourg in 1940, Becker-Krier and her husband emigrated to Great Britain and later to the USA. There she headed the New York office of the International Transport Workers Federation .

In the spring of 1940, Becker-Krier, like her husband, was placed on the special wanted list by the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin , a directory of people who would be killed in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British island by the German Wehrmacht ( Company Sea Lion ) should be arrested automatically and with priority by special units of the SS.

Until 1950 she remained in the party leadership of the socialist party, was involved in the European movement and wrote articles for the trade union press.

Fonts

  • Pierre Krier: A Life Picture , 1957.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Lily Krier on the special wanted list GB on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London .
personal data
SURNAME Becker-Krier, Lily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ly (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourgish women's rights activist and trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH 1898
DATE OF DEATH 1981