Margarete Ehlert

Margarete Ehlert (born June 23, 1886 in Kleefeld , Braunsberg district , † December 2, 1962 in Berlin ) was a German social welfare worker, ministerial official and politician ( German Center Party , CDU ).

Career

Ehlert initially worked commercially. From 1912 to 1920 she was head of the women's department at the Schöneberg municipal employment office . After the city was incorporated into Berlin, she moved to the newly established Reich Labor Administration as a member of the government . In 1923 she became an assistant to the Reich Labor Administration in the Reich Labor Ministry and in 1927 director of the employment agency and career counseling department at the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlungs und Arbeitslosversicherung . In 1933 she was reassigned and left office voluntarily. From 1934 she worked as treasurer in the Catholic German Women's Association .

She was a member of the German Center Party . From 1920 to 1925 she was a member of the city ​​council of Berlin . In 1945 she was a co-founder of the CDU in Berlin . From 1946 to 1949 she was a councilor for social affairs in the Berlin magistrate and, in October 1948, for work. From 1946 to January 1947 she was a member of the city council of Greater Berlin and from February 1952 to 1958 a member of the House of Representatives .

She wrote for social work in Berlin and for Christian women in Bonn.

Honors

• 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1956: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 89 (331 pages).
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 41 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
• Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch: Lexicon of politics, press and journalism. - Bern [et al.]: Francke, 1963. - 2 vol.
• Peter Reinicke : Ehlert, Margarete , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 159f.

Web links

• Margarete Ehlert in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
• Short biography on the website of the Independent Historical Commission on the history of the Reich Labor Ministry: https://www.historikerkommission-reichsarbeitsministerium.de/Biografien/Margarete-Ehlert