Margarete Ketelhohn

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Margarete Ketelhohn (born February 17, 1884 in Schwerin as Margarete Beyer , † May 28, 1969 in Rostock ) was a German politician of the SPD and later SED functionary.

Life

Margarete Ketelhohn was born in 1884 as the daughter of the carpenter Johann Beyer and his wife Sophie. After attending elementary school, she completed an apprenticeship as a tailor and then worked as a maid and tailor until 1905. After marrying Paul Ketelhohn (1882–1965), she lived in Rostock from around 1919 and was a housewife. In 1920/21 she was chairwoman of the domestic workers' association in the Rostock local group and from 1925 to 1927 also city councilor there. From 1926 to 1933 she was a board member of the SPD , chairwoman of the SPD women's group in Rostock and at the same time a member of the SPD district board of Mecklenburg-Lübeck. In addition, from 1928 to 1933 she was also a member of the district committee of the Mecklenburg-Lübeck Workers' Welfare Association.

In 1920 she gained - as one of only five women - a seat in the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , which she held until 1924 (1st and 2nd electoral term) and then again from 1925 to 1933 (4th to 8th electoral term) for the Belonged to the SPD. During the Nazi era , she was under police surveillance from 1933 to 1945.

After 1945 she was initially active in the SPD again, her commitment was again to women's and welfare work, so in 1945 she was co-founder of the anti-fascist women's committee in Rostock. From 1946 she was a member of the district executive committee of the SED in Rostock and was a member of the city leadership of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD), the women's organization founded in 1947. She has been honored several times for her services, she received a. a. the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and the Clara Zetkin Medal .

Margarete Ketelhohn died shortly after reaching the age of 85. Her grave is in the New Cemetery in Rostock (Ia3). In the Rostock development area Lichtenhagen , the "Margarete-Ketelhohn-Strasse" and the 62nd Polytechnic High School were named after her after her death (today "Demminer Strasse" or "Hundertwasser Comprehensive School").

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4975 .
  • Klaus Schwabe: Roots, Traditions and Identity of Social Democracy in Mecklenburg and Pomerania (=  History of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . No. 9 ). 3. Edition. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Office, Schwerin 2004, ISBN 3-86077-854-4 , p. 86 ( full text at library.fes.de [PDF; 781 kB ; accessed on September 20, 2016]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margarete Beyer in the household of Johann Beyer. In: Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1900 census, in the genealogy portal FamilySearch.com
  2. ^ Antje Krause, Hans-Jürgen Mende: New Rostock Cemetery - Remarkable graves . Part 1. Ed .: Hanseatic City of Rostock, Press and Information Office. Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-036945-2 , pp. 88 .
personal data
SURNAME Ketelhohn, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyer, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), SED functionary, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1969
Place of death Rostock