Lucie Beyer

Lucie Kurlbaum-Beyer (* 17th June 1914 in Herdorf as Lucie Fuchs ; † 29. February 2008 in Lauf ) was a German politician of the SPD and longtime member of parliament .

Life and work

Beyer completed a commercial apprenticeship after primary school and then worked until 1933 as a clerk at the "Association of Miners in Germany". During the time of National Socialism she worked first as a domestic servant and later as an accountant. In 1943 she started her own business as an assistant in tax matters. In 1945 she became a welfare worker in refugee care in Wetzlar , before joining the DGB in Hesse as a women's secretary in 1950 . In October 1965 she married her party friend Georg Kurlbaum , who was also a member of the Bundestag .

After the end of the grand coalition in 1969, the couple moved to Schwaig , where Kurlbaum-Beyer was a member of the local council from 1978 to 1996 and, for a long time, spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group.

Political party

Kurlbaum-Beyer had been a member of the Socialist Youth Workers since 1928 and a member of the SPD since 1932. From 1947 she was SPD district chairwoman in Wetzlar and from 1957 to 1969 chairwoman of the Friedberg / Büdingen sub-district. From 1947 to 1969 she belonged to the SPD state executive committee of Hesse and from 1962 to 1972 to the SPD party executive committee. From 1947 to 1967 she was the Hessian state chairman of the working group of social democratic women in the SPD. From 1969 to 1977 she held the same office in Bavaria. Kurlbaum-Beyer was most recently involved in the SPD senior council .

MPs

From 1946 to 1951, Lucie Beyer was a city councilor in Wetzlar. She was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1969, where she represented the constituency of Friedberg . In the first federal election , Beyer had renounced a Bundestag candidacy in favor of Elisabeth Selbert , which was put on the state supplement list of the Hessian SPD, but just missed a seat. In the Bundestag she was one of the initiators of the reduced sales tax rate for everyday products (for example food, tea, coffee), which earned her the nickname “Federal Coffee Aunt”.

In addition, she belonged to the cross-party group of MPs who early on demanded the establishment of an institute for comparative physical checks , as it was created in 1964 with the Stiftung Warentest . From 1972 to 1984 she was the chairwoman of the board of directors of the legally responsible, independent foundation.

Publications

• Notes and memories , in: Members of the German Bundestag. Records and Recollections , Volume 4, Boppard am Rhein, 1988, pages 133 to 217.
• War kills the future. Living and working for a peaceful world , JHW ​​Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3-8012-0343-6 (political autobiography)

literature

• Gisela Notz: Kurlbaum-Beyer, Lucie . In: Siegfried Mielke (ed.): Trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution, resistance, emigration . Essen: Klartext, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-914-1 , pp. 238–244

Web links

• Literature by and about Lucie Beyer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stiftung Warentest - Annual Report 2010 , page 126, ISSN  1617-9501