Lisy Alfhart

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Lisy Alfhart (born April 15, 1908 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 4, 1996 , actually: Elisabeth Alfhart ) was a German trade unionist .

Life

Lisy Alfhart grew up in a socialist family home. She tried her hand at higher schooling, but was harassed because of her poorer background. So she returned to elementary school and graduated from business school . She trained as a clerk and joined the Central Association of Employees (ZdA) and the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ). Politically, however, she moved closer to the International Socialist Fighting League (ISK) of Leonard Nelson , to which she initially maintained friendly contacts and then joined him. In the 1920s, Alfahart also trained professionally and politically. So she attended the welfare school of Marie Juchacz and became a social worker .

In 1930 she married her first husband, who she divorced after joining the SA , while she had long since been involved in the resistance . Alfhart was active in the resistance of the ISK and belonged to the hard core of the Frankfurt group. During this time she worked as a gardener and carer. She remained undiscovered as a resistance fighter, while her second husband, Egon Alfhart , whom she only married in 1944, was imprisoned.

After the Second World War , she was involved in setting up IG Metall in Frankfurt and Hesse, where she directed women's work. For many years she was on the women's committee of the executive board and thus also a delegate at the federal congresses of the German Federation of Trade Unions . In 1972 she retired. She was politically active together with her husband in the SPD and was a member of the Heddernheim local committee from 1946 to 1988 . In Frankfurt she was a member of the city parliament as a city councilor. She died in 1996 at the age of 88.

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literature

  • Stefan Müller: Alfhart, Lisy (1908–1996): From the socialist living and fighting community to IG Metall . In: Siegfried Mielke (ed.): Trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution, resistance, emigration . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-914-1 , p. 25-32 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honor plaque. Kulturportal Frankfurt, accessed on March 28, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Alfhart, Lisy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alfhart, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 4th 1996
Place of death Frankfurt am Main