Lore Henkel

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Eleonore Henkel (also: Lore Henkel , nee Eleonore Frank ; * July 28, 1914 in Gleiwitz ; † May 2, 2017 in Hanover ) was a German stenographer , graduate economist , lecturer and honored local politician .

Life

Eleonore Frank grew up in the last years of the German Empire and at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in Gleiwitz, where she graduated from high school in 1934 at the age of around 20. At the time of National Socialism, she completed a commercial apprenticeship and was employed as a typist in Dessau in 1937 .

In the middle of World War II , Eleonore Frank married Willy Henkel (1897–1988), who was born in Hanover, and passed her examination in 1943 as a qualified economist. Towards the end of the war, the couple fled from the troops of the Soviet Union to the city ​​of Baden-Baden , which was then in the French occupation zone , where they became a member of the SPD in 1946 .

Also in 1946, Henkel moved to the city ​​of Hanover, which was controlled by the British military commanders at the time , where she initially taught as a lecturer at various union schools. On March 19, 1949, she passed her doctoral examination in Göttingen at the law and political science faculty of the university there . Her dissertation was entitled The Evaluation of Natural Wages in Agriculture .

In the early post-war period after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany , Lore Henkel was elected to the council of the Lower Saxony state capital in 1951. From the following year 1952 she also worked as a member of the board of the German Housewives Association . In those years she lived with her husband in the Hanover district of Oberricklingen , but as a local politician she was also committed to "her district of Ricklingen ". According to the future mayor Stefan Schostok , the "activity and optimism [radiating councilor ...] played a key role in the democratic rebuilding in Hanover in the post-war years ".

In March 1957, Henkel and her long-time companions Fritz Haake and Horst Schweimler founded the Ricklinger Vereine working group, to which they remained lifelong .

Also in 1957 Lore Henkel was one of the purposes of consumer protection to the co-founders of the Consumer Central for Lower Saxony , who served as chairman for ten years. At times she was also a member of the honorary committee of the Consumers Association (AgV) in Bonn .

Eleonore Henkel worked nationwide in 1959 as a member of the program commission for the Godesberg program of the SPD.

Henkel was committed to environmental protection measures early on - “when the term didn't even exist”. In the 1960s, for example, she promoted the installation of filters in industrial chimneys. Henkel also campaigned for the restoration of the Mühlenberg . She also volunteered to take care of homeless and homeless children and young people, and at the same time fought for the defense of human rights , for tolerance and international understanding .

Henkel, which was to be a member of the Hanover City Council until 1972, received one of its first awards in 1964 when it was awarded the Hanover City Council's Ring of Honor.

When visiting a delegation of young people from Malawi , who also visited Hanover on an information trip through Germany, Lore Henkel initiated an invitation from the city council to ten young Malawian women to train as nurses at the Oststadtkrankenhaus : Thanks to the continued commitment of the Henkel couple, the city council made a decision Hanover in 1968 unanimously signed a twinning agreement with the Malawian city of Blantyre . Until the end, Lore Henkel was to be a member of the Malawi Circle of Friends .

Lore Henkel was one of the co-founders of the Advertising Association, which was founded in 1970 by the retail trade association in the legal form of an association , from which the later City-Gemeinschaft Hannover eV emerged .

In 1989, together with Horst Schweimler, Horst Schneider, and Manfred Adam Motor, Henkel initiated the Ricklinger Merchants ' interest group , which was founded in the same year and which Lore Henkel later joined with foresight.

In 1989 Eleonore Henkel was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit “for her services to international understanding” . The bearer of the Council's Ring of Honor was also awarded the city ​​plaque of Hanover in 1991 by the state capital of Hanover “for her outstanding services” . On the occasion of her 100th birthday, Mayor Stefan Schostok paid tribute to Lore Henkel's life's work during a reception in September 2014 in the New Town Hall . Only a little later, Henkel was announced as a conversation partner in the series of events hosted by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialdemokratischer Frauen (ASF) Linden-Limmer “SPD women in conversation”, moderated by Thela Wernstedt : In the event in the senior citizens' center on Ihmeufer of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in Ottenstrasse 10 in Linden , Hundreds of years old report, among other things, about their experiences in the post-war period, for example about refugees and the housing shortage they experienced after the war, the reconstruction of Hanover, the " economic miracle " and the first major protests of the 1968 movement such as the " Red Dot Campaign " .

Eleonore Henkel, who could be seen at events until she was very old, died on May 2, 2017 at the age of 102 in a senior citizens' home in Hanover. Ten days after Henkel's death, for example, the deputy president of the Hanover region reported on her former neighbor in Ricklingen during a memorial event for Henkel in the New Town Hall . The former Lord Mayor Herbert Schmalstieg emphasized Henkel's often different, but always critical role within the SPD.

additional

Eleonore Henkel used to take seeds from the flower beds on Trammplatz on the way to meetings in the town hall and put them in labeled paper bags that they had brought with them when the new planting of the beds was imminent. She explained this by saying that it was far too good to compost the seeds together with the withered plants.

literature

Web links

  • Irving Villegas: Commemoration for Lore Henkel , photo series from the commemoration in the mosaic hall of the New Town Hall of Hanover on May 12, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the family's obituary dated May 6, 2017 on the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) website , last accessed on January 26, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h o.V. : Henkel, Eleonore in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of March 29, 2012, last accessed on January 26, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k o. V .: City plaque bearer / Hanover mourns the loss of Dr. Lore Henkel ... on the hannover.de website on May 3, 2017, last accessed on January 26, 2018
  4. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  5. ^ A b c Anne Stache, Christa Porps: Dr. Eleonore Henkel on arv-ricklingen.de on May 22, 2017, last accessed on January 27, 2018
  6. ↑ Kristine Kastning for the SPD parliamentary group in the council of the state capital Hanover, Alptekin Kirci for the SPD city association Hanover: Obituary on the HAZ website of May 9, 2017, last accessed on January 26, 2018
  7. ↑ a b Frank Winternheimer: Farewell Memorial Service for Lore Henkel , who wore the city ​​plaque ... , Article with a photo gallery of the memorial event in the Mosaic Hall on the HAZ website from May 12, 2017, updated on May 15, 2017, last accessed on January 27, 2018
  8. ↑ top v .: About us / The town twinning between Blantyre and Hanover on the page freundeskreis-malawi.de [ undated ], last accessed on January 27, 2018
  9. ↑ Adelheid von Saldern (ed.), Lu Seegers (collaborator): Staged pride. City representations in three German societies (1935-1975) (= contributions to urban history and urbanization research , vol. 2), Stuttgart: Steiner, 2005, ISBN 978-3-515-08300-3 and ISBN 3-515-08300-6 , p 385; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. ↑ top v .: SPD women in conversation with Dr. Lore Henkel: “100 Years of Politics at a Glance” ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page Zukunftsregion-hannover.de [undated, 2014], last accessed on January 27, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Zukunftsregion-hannover.de
  11. ↑ Conrad von Meding: Obituary / Lore Henkel died at the age of 102 on the HAZ website on May 4, 2017, last accessed on January 27, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Henkel, lore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henkel, Eleonore; Frank, Eleonore (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stenographer, graduate economist, lecturer and award-winning local politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice
DATE OF DEATH 2nd May 2017
Place of death Hanover