Margarethe Gramberg

Anna Mathilde Margarethe Gramberg (born January 31, 1895 in Donnerschwee , † January 26, 1968 in Oldenburg ), née Hoyer , was a German politician ( DVP , FDP ).

Life

Early years

Margarethe Gramberg grew up in an upper class family . Her father was the brewery owner and manufacturer Hans Hoyer, her mother Adeline nee. Franksen, whose father was the owner of the Koch und Franksen foundry. After attending the Cäcilienschule Oldenburg , she went to boarding school in London . In 1914 she was trained as a Red Cross nurse and then worked as a nurse for a few years. In 1916 she married the doctor Johannes Gramberg (1887–1963), the son of Ministerialrat Otto Friedrich Gramberg (1856–1946).

She first appeared in public when she founded the parents' council and the association of former students at the Cecilia School in 1926.

Weimar Period and National Socialism

In 1928 she joined the national liberal German People's Party (DVP) and was a party member until the party's dissolution in 1933. As a member of parliament, she was a member of the Oldenburg city ​​council from 1928 to August 1933 .

In August 1933, under pressure from the NSDAP, she had to resign from her mandate. During the Third Reich she worked in evangelical women's work and was a member of the Confessing Church .

After the Second World War

After the end of the Second World War , she co-founded the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in Oldenburg in 1946 and took over the deputy chairmanship of the Oldenburg-Stadt district association. From 1947 she was also a member of the party executive in the British zone until 1948. Gramberg was a member of the Oldenburg City Council from 1946 to 1968, and from 1947 she was chairwoman of the Health Committee and the Culture Committee. She was also one of the founders of women's work in Oldenburg.

From January 30, 1946 to November 6, 1946, she was appointed as one of two women alongside Elisabeth Frerichs (SPD) to be a member of the Appointed Landtag of Oldenburg . In the same year she took on a mandate in the city council of Oldenburg, to which she belonged continuously until her death in 1968. There she served as chairwoman of the health committee and the culture committee, from April 1955 she was a senator in the administrative committee. After the state elections in 1955 , she entered the Lower Saxony state parliament from May 6, 1955 to May 5, 1959 in the third electoral period .

Extra-political engagement and appreciation

In addition to her political activities, Gramberg was also active as a social judge from 1954 and was a member of the board of the Oldenburg citizens' associations and also active in a large number of cultural, social, economic and women's associations at both local and state level. In 1960 she was one of the first women in the region to receive the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . Margarete-Gramberg-Strasse is named after her in the Eversten district of Oldenburg .

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 125.
• Gramberg, b. Hoyer, Anna Mathilde Margarethe. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 249-250 ( online ).