Luise Mössinger-Schiffgens

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Luise Schiffgens

Luise Mössinger-Schiffgens (born July 26, 1892 in Aachen , † December 1, 1954 in Homburg ; born Luise Simons ) was a German politician . The women's rights activist belonged to the SPD and was a co-founder of the Saarland Social Democratic Party (SPS).

Life

After elementary school she first worked as a textile worker. She was a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth and joined the SPD. From 1920 to 1929 she was a city councilor in Aachen, then a member of the Prussian state parliament until 1930 . She was also a member of the Reichstag for the third and fourth electoral periods (1924–1930); there she mainly campaigned for women's rights.

In 1928 she moved to the Saar area , where she participated, among other things, in setting up the workers' welfare organization. After the Saar referendum in 1935, she emigrated to Bordeaux . During the war she was involved in the Resistance . She was a member and vice-president of the Comité “Allemagne libre” pour l'Ouest (CALPO) and was a member of the board of directors of Refugiés Sarrois en France .

After the war she returned to Saarland and was a founding member of the SPS. As a representative of women, she was a member of the SPS board from 1948. From 1946 until her death she was a city councilor in Saarbrücken . In addition, she was a member of the Saarland state parliament from 1947 and held the office of parliamentary group chairman.

family

Her first marriage was from 1912 to Joseph Schiffgens. In 1952 she married the social democrat Karl Mössinger . Luise Mössinger-Schiffgens had two daughters.

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Luise Schiffgens in the DRAFD Wiki