Lina Ammon

Lina Ammon (born September 2, 1889 in Nuremberg ; † December 23, 1969 there ) was a Bavarian state and local politician ( SPD ).

Life

Ammon was born to a working class family; she attended elementary school and then started as a 14-year-old worker in a pencil factory in Nuremberg. In this company she worked her way up, first becoming a warehouse clerk and then an employee. In 1909 she joined the SPD and in 1910 the union. As an adult, she took on various offices in trade unions and in the SPD: she became a works councilor and member of the board of the woodworkers' association, was a "poor councilor" and district head of the housing department. She was also a founding member of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt and a member of the state executive committee of the SPD in Bavaria . Finally, in 1920, she was elected to the Bavarian State Parliament for the SPD , where she remained a member until 1933. In the Bavarian state parliament, she mainly dealt with social problems and labor law, accident and youth protection.

Her last activity in the Bavarian state parliament took place in 1933: She voted against the law to bring the federal states into line, 84 of 100 MPs voted for, 16 against, including Ammon. Ammon was imprisoned in Aichach prison in 1933 , but was apparently released soon afterwards. During the Nazi era, Ammon tried to keep herself afloat with a grocery store and as a representative, and was sometimes supported by other former SPD members. After the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, she was sent back to the Fürth prison, but was released again in 1944.

In 1946 she was a member of the state constituent assembly that drafted the Bavarian constitution . She then worked in the welfare sector in Nuremberg until 1957 , where she was involved in the development of workers welfare . At the same time she was a member of the Nuremberg City Council for the SPD from 1948 to 1960. In 1962 she received the City of Nuremberg's Citizens' Medal for her services to the city.

A street in Nuremberg is named after her today.

Web links

• Biography of Ammon on the website of the journalist Karin Sommer
• Page of the Bavarian SPD about Ammon, with picture
• Lina Ammon in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History