Lina Ege

Lina Ege (born January 20, 1879 in Schlebusch , † May 27, 1971 in Munich ) was a German social democratic politician and member of the state parliament.

Life

Lina Ege (nee Mitterhauser) was born as the youngest daughter of a Social Democrat from what is now the Leverkusen district of Schlebusch. After attending elementary school, she was initially a housewife. In the 1890s she met the carpenter Richard Rösch , whom she married a little later. The marriage produced three daughters. In 1901/02, Rösch was editor and director of the Aachener Volksblatt and later district director in the Central Association of Carpenters. After the couple separated in 1908, Richard Rösch moved to Dresden , Lina to Frankfurt am Main .

After her divorce, she married the Social Democrat Alfred Ege. Both were active in the resistance against the Nazi regime from 1933 and were therefore arrested in 1936. After his release, Alfred Ege continued his work in the resistance, was arrested again and executed in 1943. Lina fled to her daughter Edith from her marriage to Richard Rösch in Munich, where she lived until her death.

Political activity

In 1903 Lina Rösch became a member of the socialist women's association and wrote part-time for the social democratic party press. After the party ban on women was lifted, she joined the SPD in 1909 and was a member of the SPD district executive in Hessen-Nassau between 1913 and 1922 . From 1909 she worked in the municipal welfare department in Frankfurt. I.a. she was a member of the youth welfare office, the welfare office, the child protection commission and the peace commission. Between 1912 and 1924 she worked as a poor carer, at times also as a welfare investigator.

From 1919 to 1921 Ege was a member of the constituent Prussian state assembly and then until 1928 a member of the Prussian state parliament . There she belonged as deputy chairwoman a. a. joined the Population Policy Committee and chaired her party's political group committee on affluence. Her merits include working on a modern midwifery law , which for the first time granted free obstetrics through the health insurance companies. From 1925 to 1928 she was an assessor in the Presidium of the State Parliament, and at times also a member of the Reich Health Council .

When the National Socialists came to power and the SPD was banned, she continued to work underground, was arrested in 1936, but was released a little later. After 1945 she continued her political engagement in the Munich SPD before she retired from party work in 1965 for health reasons.

literature

• Christine Blasberg: Searching for Traces. Frauen-Leben in Leverkusen , Ed .: Women's Office of the City of Leverkusen, 2005, p. 38. ( PDF; 3.1 MB )

Web links

• Biography of Lina Ege . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Short biography on www.leverkusen.com