Lotte Lemke

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Lotte Lemke (born January 28, 1903 in Königsberg , † April 19, 1988 in Bonn ) was a German welfare worker and chairwoman of the workers' welfare organization .

Life

Lotte Lemke was born the daughter of a master carpenter; her mother died early. Due to the family imprints caused by her mother's illness, several siblings and economic hardship, she decided to become a welfare worker. Before that, she had attended a commercial school in Königsberg and initially worked in an engineering office for a few years. From 1922 she worked at the main welfare office for East Prussia, where she came into contact with the workers' welfare organization. This granted her a scholarship that enabled her to complete additional training at the German University of Politics in Berlin and which she completed with state recognition as a welfare worker in 1926. For the next three years she worked as a welfare worker in the Calau district in Brandenburg . In 1929, Marie Juchacz , the main initiator of the workers' welfare organization, won her as deputy managing director for the main committee of the workers’s welfare organization. In 1930 Lemke was appointed managing director of the SPD party committee due to her organizational talent .

In 1933, after Adolf Hitler's " seizure of power " , after an unsuccessful attempt to equalize the workers ' welfare and integrate it into the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV), the workers' welfare organization was dissolved and banned. Lemke was arrested by the Gestapo for a few weeks for being active in the resistance . Together with Elsa Brandström as chairwoman, she founded the cover organization “Deutsch-Ausländisches Jugendhilfswerk” to support persecuted social democrats and their families. This could work until 1936. During this time, Lemke earned a living as a freelance newspaper representative in Frankfurt am Main due to a work ban as a welfare worker . She undertook courier trips for social democratic resistance groups, which took her to Prague, among other places, to the exiled party executive of the SPD. From 1942 Lemke worked at the district health office in Heilsberg / East Prussia. From Heilsberg she fled from the Red Army .

After 1945 Lemke began to rebuild the organization of workers' welfare with others. In 1946 she was reappointed managing director of the SPD of the western zones in Hanover. From 1950 she supported Elly Heuss-Knapp in setting up the German Mothers' Recovery Association , of which she was a member of the board of trustees from the start. From 1961 she was a member of the Board of Trustees of Deutsche Altershilfe , which was founded by then Federal President Heinrich Lübke and his wife Wilhelmine Lübke . From 1965 to 1971 Lemke was chairwoman of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt.

Honors

Lotte Lemke Prize

Since the foundation by the executive committee of the AWO Federal Association in 1986, the Lotte Lemke Prize has been awarded at every regular federal conference of the AWO.

Prize winners:

  • 1989: AWO local association Gottmadingen; AWO local association Dortmund-Wickede
  • 1990: AWO local association Hassel
  • 1992: AWO local association Lüneburg / AWO local association Honzrath
  • 1996: International support team for refugees a. Asylum seekers (AWO district association Westliches Westfalen) / voluntary service of the elderly care center "Lotte-Lemke-Haus" (AWO Landesverband Bremen)
  • 2000: Büro Aktiv Fulda / Volunteer Agency Youth - Social - Sport Wolfenbüttel
  • 2008: AWO district association Göppingen / Friends of the FSE care center House of Life (AWO Landesverband Berlin) / Sarstedt currently for the visually impaired, AWO local association Sarstedt / network offers for people in need of housing (AWO local association Reutlingen)

Fonts

  • Humanitarian Action from Political Responsibility: The Basics of Workers 'Welfare , Unit, Main Committee of Workers' Welfare, Bonn 1954
  • Small collection of laws for social work , 5th edition, Arbeiterwohlfahrt, Bonn 1970

literature

  • Antje Dertinger : women from the very beginning. From the founding years of the Federal Republic. J. Latka Verlag, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-925-06811-2 , pp. 69-80.
  • Dieter Oelschlägel: Lemke, Lotte , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 353f.
  • Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , p. 96 f. (Short biography).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Great Cross of Merit for Lotte Lemke , in: Das Ostpreußenblatt, Volume 14 / Episode 10, March 9, 1963, p. 14
  2. ↑ a b c Short biography in the archive of social democracy , website of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , accessed on February 15, 2011
  3. ↑ The Federal Board announces , in: New Beginning 1971, p. 238
  4. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ http://buko2012.awo.org/ueber-die-konferenz/lotte-lemke-preis/
personal data
SURNAME Lemke, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemke, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German welfare worker
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1988
Place of death Bonn