Margarete Fechner

Margarete Fechner , née Schnelle (born March 16, 1899 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † August 13, 1983 in Berlin ), was a German politician ( SPD ).

Margarete Schnelle was the daughter of a white tanner who later became an innkeeper as a social democrat. The Social Democrats Otto Wels and Hermann Müller , whom Margarete Schnelle met there , also frequented his restaurant . She attended middle school and became a maid . In 1913 she joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ), and in 1917 also the SPD. She later trained in shorthand and typewriter . In 1920 she went to Berlin-Spandau and worked as a typist at Siemens . In 1922 she married the educator and local politician Paul Fechner and became a housewife. From 1944 until the end of the Second World War , she was conscripted into the aviation equipment factory in Hakenfelde .

After the war, the couple immediately became politically active, he as a school councilor and district councilor in the Spandau district and she as a member of the city ​​council of Greater Berlin in the Berlin election in 1946 . In February 1950 Margarete Fechner had to resign from parliament for health reasons, and Otto Theuner was her successor .

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. 93 f . (331 pages).
• Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0240-2 , p. 100 f.
• Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Spandau . In: Resistance series in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 , German Resistance Memorial Center , Berlin 1988, ISSN 0175-3592, p. 37.

Web links

• Berliner Zeitung - naming streets after women / Today: the city and district councilor Margarete Fechner , from July 15, 1996