Magda Hoppstock-Huth

Magdalene "Magda" Hoppstock-Huth (born Huth ; born September 3, 1881 in Hamburg ; † April 24, 1959 there ) was a German politician of the SPD and a member of the Hamburg parliament .

Life and Politics until 1945

Magda Hoppstock-Huth was a teacher and came from an old Hanseatic merchant family. As a child she was brought up in the spirit of friendship among peoples. After completing her teacher training, she studied English and French abroad. She married and had two children. Because of this, she had to give up her job as a teacher.

Due to the loss of two brothers in the First World War, she joined the association “ Women's Committee for Lasting Peace ”. This association was transformed into the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom (IFFF) in June 1919 . Hoppstock-Huth was a founding member and chairman of the league in Hamburg for many years. From 1925 to 1933 she was a member of the management and from 1945 to 1959 President of the IFFF.

In 1934, Hoppstock-Huth had to emigrate because of the National Socialist regime. She went into exile in England. She began to work actively against the fascists with other exiled members of the IFFF. In 1939 she had to return to Germany for family reasons. In May 1944 she was arrested by the National Socialists. One year later, in May 1945, she was freed from the Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel prison (also called Kola-Fu ) by British troops .

Life and Politics from 1945

Gravestone
Magda Hoppstock-Huth ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

Hoppstock-Huth was appointed to the " Appointed Citizenship " by the English city commandant for Hamburg, General Armitage . As the new founder of the IFFF, she was supposed to represent the interests of women. From February to June 1946 she was a member of the non-party faction . From the summer of 1946 she moved to the SPD parliamentary group and also became a party member. In the first free election after the war in October 1946, she was re-elected as an SPD member of the citizenry.

In the post-war period, in addition to her duties at the IFFF, she was also a co-founder of the “ Hamburger Frauenring eV” (with Frieda Roß, among others ) and a member of the board of the “Women's Committee”. In 1956 she traveled to Moscow as a women's delegate at the invitation of the Anti-Fascist Women's Committee.

Magda Hoppstock-Huth found her final resting place in the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf , grid square L 32 (south of Chapel 10).

literature

• Rita Bake : Hoppstock-Huth, Magda. In: Hamburg biography . Volume 2, Christians Verlag, Hamburg 2003, pp. 197-198, ISBN 978-3-7672-1366-1 ( preview ).

Sources and web links

• Inge Grolle and Rita Bake: “I practiced juggling with three balls.” Women in the Hamburg citizenship from 1946 to 1993. Verlag Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg 1995, pp. 350–351, ISBN 3-930802-01-5 (im Commissioned by the State Center for Political Education Hamburg ).
• Karen Hageman and Jan Kolossa: Equal Rights, Equal Duties. The women’s struggle for civic equality; a picture-reading book on everyday life and women's movement in Hamburg. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-87975-528-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celebrity Graves