Margarethe Dyck

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Margarethe Dyck (born December 13, 1887 in Liebertwolkwitz , † July 23, 1956 in Dresden ) was a German educator and politician ( LDPD ). From 1949 to 1956 she was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

The daughter of a savings bank director attended elementary school , the secondary girls 'school , the teachers ' seminar and the University of Leipzig . Your dissertation on Dr. phil. She took it from the University of Leipzig in 1922 on the subject of home education in 18th century Germany , after which she was a lecturer and director at the women's seminar for social education in Leipzig. She came to Dresden in 1929 as senior government councilor. After the war in 1945 she worked in the state administration of Saxony , in the area of ​​popular education. From May 1948 to December 1950 she was ministerial director and head of the main department for universities and scientific institutions in the Ministry of Education of the State of Saxony . In 1951 she retired.

In October 1945 she joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDP, from 1951 LDPD) and in January 1949 became a member of the State Board of Saxony. On the III. At the LDP party congress in February 1949, she was elected as an assessor in the LDP's central executive committee, to which she was a member until its new election on May 31, 1953. On August 20, 1952, Dyck became a member of the Dresden district committee of the LDPD, and from March 3, 1953, she was deputy chairwoman of the Dresden district committee of the LDPD. In February 1954 she joined the editorial team of the Dresden LDPD organ Sächsisches Tageblatt with the status of assistant editor , where she held the position of political advisor to the respective editor-in-chief.

In 1947, Dyck was one of the founders of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (DFD) in the state of Saxony and was a member of the first DFD state executive committee in 1947. Since September 12, 1952 Dyck has belonged to the Dresden District Committee of the National Front and since February 14, 1954 to the Presidential Council of the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . Since November 5, 1952, she has been chairwoman of the Dresden district board of the German Association for the Protection of Children. On December 2, 1954, she was elected a member of the permanent presidium at the 4th meeting of the German Women's Council of the GDR.

Dyck worked in the People's Congress movement since its inception in 1947, and on the 2nd and 3rd German People's Congress (March 18, 1948, and 29-30. May 1949) was a member of the working group of the LDP in the German People's Council selected. When it was transformed into the GDR's Provisional People's Chamber on October 7, 1949, she became a member of parliament. She belonged to the LDP / LDPD faction. From 1950 to 1954 she was a member of the Committee on Popular Education, and from 1954 to her death in 1956 on the Committee on General Affairs. She was the oldest female member of the People's Chamber in both electoral terms.

Margarethe Dyck died after a long and serious illness at the age of 68.

Awards

Works

  • (together with Hedwig Stieve ): A day in the life of the welfare worker. Training and practice . Verlag für Kulturpolitik, Berlin 1926.

literature

  • Handbook of the Soviet Zone People's Chamber. Legislative period 2 (1954–1958) . West Information Office, Berlin-Schlachtensee 1955, p. 130.
  • Magdalena Heider, Kerstin Thöns (ed.): SED and intellectuals in the GDR in the fifties. Kulturbund protocols . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-8046-8758-X , p. 156.
  • Rita Pawlowski: “Our women stand by their husbands”. Women in the People's Chamber of the GDR 1950–1989. A biographical manual. trafo, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-652-1 , p. 57.
  • Martin Otto: From an independent church to a nationally owned enterprise: Erwin Jacobi (1884–1965) . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149502-1 , p. 321.
  • Peter Reinicke : Dyck, Margarete , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 155

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , September 23, 1954, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 3, 1954, p. 6.
  3. ^ New Germany , August 1, 1956, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Dyck, Margarethe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and politician (LDPD), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Liebertwolkwitz
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1956
Place of death Dresden