Luise Herrmann-Ries
Luise Herrmann-Ries (born February 13, 1904 in Altenkessel ; † January 17, 1971 in Neunkirchen ) was a Saarland politician ( KPD ) and women's rights activist .
After elementary school, she first worked as a housemaid and saleswoman. Through her husband, the KPD member Willi Herrmann , she came into contact with his party and joined it in 1931. She had previously been politically committed to women's rights in the Association of Working Women . In 1932 she was elected to the fourth regional councilor of the Saar area ; she was there - after Elisabeth Hallauer (1922-1924) - the second and last female member.
In the run-up to the Saar referendum in 1935 , she campaigned against the reintegration of the Saar region into the German Reich. After the vast majority of Saar residents voted for a return “ home to the Reich ” on January 13, 1935 , she emigrated to France .
From 1935 to 1937 she and her husband attended the International Lenin School in Moscow . Back in France, she was interned from May 1940 to June 1941 and then arrested by the Gestapo in September 1941. In May 1942 she was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, so that she was imprisoned until the end of the war. Her husband died in prison.
After the war Herrmann-Ries was no longer politically active.
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
Web links
- FrauenSichtenHistory: ... groundbreaking (PDF, 2.3 MB)
- Luise Hermann-Ries in the Saarland biographies
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herrmann-Ries, Luise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herrmann, Luise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD) and women's rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenkessel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 1971 |
| Place of death | Neunkirchen |