Margarete Hofmann (politician)

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Margarete (also: Grete ) Hofmann (born July 16, 1906 in Hanover ; † April 2, 1998 there ) was a German social democrat and social politician .

Life

Street sign on Margarete-Hofmann-Weg in the Hanover district of Hanover-Vahrenheide , with a legend about the work of Senator Grete Hofmann

Born at the time of the German Empire , Margarete Hofmann completed an apprenticeship as a master tailor . She married Karl Hofmann , who during the National Socialist era acted as a resistance fighter with Otto Brenner and Albin Karl at risk of death against the Nazi regime . Like her husband, she was a member of the International Socialist Combat League , took part in leaflet and poster campaigns and visited imprisoned comrades in prison. Hofmann and her tailoring workshop were an important port of call and contact point for the resistance in Hanover during the Nazi dictatorship.

After the end of the Second World War , Margarete Hofmann was one of the co-founders of the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO) in Hanover in 1946, while still under British occupation . Although men often occupied the management positions in the AWO at that time, "it was the women who supported and shaped the workers' welfare and gave it its uniqueness for the time." This is how Grete Hofmann worked here as well as Emmy Lanzke and Minna Lubitz , Helene Simons , Martha Korell and Martha Wißmann .

In 1956 Margarete Hofmann was elected to the city council as a member of the SPD , where she was chairwoman of the social committee from 1961 to 1974 . In 1968 she was elected senator .

From 1957 to 1959 Grete Hofmann was chairwoman of the AWO district association Hanover, from 1959 to 1980 she was chairwoman of the AWO district association Hanover city.

Margarete Hofmann, who lived in the Hanoverian district of Vahrenheide first in Jenaer Weg and then in Weimarer Allee , was committed to the creation of a large number of kindergartens , facilities for older citizens and care centers for foreign workers until old age .

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Margarete Hofmann (SPD)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Klaus Mlynek : HOFMANN, (2) Margarte (Grete) , In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 175
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Hofmann, (1) Karl , In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 175
  3. ^ Heike Meyer-Schoppa: Between "secondary contradiction" and "revolutionary draft": emancipatory potentials of social democratic women's politics 1945-1949 , Centaurus-Verlag, Herbolzheim 2004, ISBN 3-8255-0485-9 , p. 57 ff.
  4. ↑ AVS Information Service 1997, Working Group of formerly persecuted Social Democrats , p. 121
  5. ↑ History: The Hanover District Association from 1920 to 1999 ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Workers' Welfare, Hanover District Association @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / awo-bv-hannover.de
  6. ↑ See the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
  7. ↑ Printed matter No. 1961/2001 Street naming in the Vahrenheide district on the e-government.hannover-stadt.de page from June 14, 2001, last accessed on August 21, 2014
  8. ↑ Important women in Hanover. Help for future naming of streets, paths, squares and bridges according to female personalities , Ed. Christine Kannenberg and Sabine Poppe, ed. from the City of Hanover, Department for Women and Equal Opportunities, Department of Planning and Urban Development, as of June 2013, Hanover undated, p. 67; online as a PDF document
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmann, Grete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1998
Place of death Hanover