Magda Langhans
Magda Langhans-Kelm (born July 16, 1903 in Hamburg as Magda Kelm; † January 17, 1987 ibid) was a German politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and a member of the Hamburg Parliament .
Weimar Republic and National Socialism
Magda Langhans worked as a domestic worker and later also as an investor in the printing industry . She continued to do this work until she retired.
Magda Langhans joined the union at the age of 18. In 1921 she had joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) at the suggestion of a friend. She quickly took on tasks in the party apparatus and went to Moscow for a year in the CPSU party school. Back in Hamburg, she took on a post in the KPD's district leadership "Wasserkante". There she met her future husband, the decorative painter Heinrich Langhans.
In the years 1931 to 1933 Langhans was elected to the Hamburg parliament for the first time for the KPD . At the meeting of the citizenship on March 8, 1933, the KPD delegates no longer took part. In February 1933, Langhans was still able to collect 2,000 marks from the town hall for the KPD MPs, which were used for the illegally working comrades. After the KPD was banned in 1933, Magda Langhans took part in the communist resistance. She made sure that the KPD newspaper, the "Rote Fahne" (Red Flag) and other leaflets, which were also widely distributed underground, found their way to Hamburg and were distributed among the population and was arrested in May 1934. She was sentenced to six years in prison. From 1934 to 1940 she was held in the Lübeck-Lauerhof women's prison . She was the first woman to be convicted and imprisoned by the Nazis in Hamburg for political reasons.
post war period
From February to October 1946 Magda Langhans was a member of the appointed citizenship of the city of Hamburg. She was one of nine communists who, among other things , were supposed to work with the other parliamentary groups on a new Hamburg constitution . For her party she sat in the first two elected citizenships ( 1946 to 1949 and 1949 to 1953 ) in parliament. There she belonged as the first woman to the Presidium of the Citizenship as Vice President. As a member of parliament, Magda Langhans campaigned for reparations for those persecuted by the Nazis. On May 18, 1949, like the entire KPD faction in the Hamburg Parliament, she voted against the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany .
She was also involved in the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom . She was also the state chairman of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany in Hamburg, which was banned in 1957.
After the KPD ban in 1956 , she was active for the illegal party in Bremen and Württemberg.
In 1968 she co-founded the DKP in Hamburg.
Magda Langhans died on January 16, 1987 in Hamburg. She is buried on the field of honor for those persecuted by the Nazi regime in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf , together with her husband Heinrich.
literature
- Inge Grolle , Rita Bake: “I practiced juggling with three balls.” Women in the Hamburg citizenship from 1946 to 1993. Verlag Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg 1995, p. 365, ISBN 3-930802-01-5 (on behalf of State Center for Political Education Hamburg ).
- Rita Bake, Brita Reimers: City of Dead Women. Portraits of women and life pictures from Ohlsdorf cemetery . 2nd edition. Verlag Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1997, pp. 293-294, ISBN 3-930802-56-2 .
- Langhans, Magda . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Kersten Artus : Who was Magda Langhans? extensive material including a brochure [1] to download
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langhans, Magda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Langhans-Kelm, Magda (full name); Kelm, Magda (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 1987 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |