Margarete Rudoll

Margarete Rudoll (born February 27, 1906 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 15, 1979 in Essen ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1953 to 1969 she was a member of the German Bundestag.

Life

She was born in 1906 as Margarete Deitrich in Frankfurt am Main. Her father first worked for the trade union and later for the people's welfare. In 1911 her family moved to Essen, where they attended elementary school. Then she trained as an office clerk. At the age of fourteen she became a member of the Workers' Youth and also the trade union, five years later she joined the SPD. She also volunteered for the Kinderfreunde Association, where she met Willi Rudoll, whom she married in 1929. Their daughter Erika was born two years later.

politics

National Socialism

Margarete Rudoll worked as an honorary chairwoman of the Essener Kinderfreunde until 1933. In the spring of 1933 the family moved to Heidhausen, now part of Essen. Political work continued in secret. At one of these illegal meetings on May 1, 1935, her husband was arrested and interned in the Esterwegen concentration camp , where he stayed for a year. He was then released, but lost his job at Krupp. After 1945 they continued to be politically active. Her husband was active with the " falcons ", Margarete became the recorder of the meetings and discussions of the SPD at the Essen level. At the beginning of 1946, like Maria Berns , Artur Fritsch and Gustav Streich , she was appointed to the Essen City Council and was elected to it in October 1946.

Bundestag

Rudoll worked for a few years as a secretary for women's issues at the German Trade Union Confederation in Düsseldorf and later in Essen again. She worked in her profession until 1953, when she was elected to the German Bundestag via the Essen south constituency. During this time she was particularly active in the Labor Committee. She was re-elected three more times and was a member of the Bundestag until 1969. Her successor was her confidante Antje Huber , for whom she had campaigned and who was able to work until 1987.

Last years

Rudoll spent her last years in Essen again. In 1975 she helped found the AWO in Essen-Werden and checked the cash register there for several years. In 1969 she was offered the Grand Cross of Merit , which she refused with the words "the trust of her fellow citizens and voters was always recognition enough for her". Rudoll died after a long and serious illness on September 15, 1979 and was quietly buried next to her husband, who died in 1978, in the Bergfriedhof in Essen-Heidhausen. In an obituary published by Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt and Herbert Wehner it was said, among other things: "Your political commitment was aimed at realizing social justice and equal opportunities in our society."

Web links

• Obituary of the Essen Workers' Welfare Association
• Chronicle of the German Social Democracy of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation