Margarethe Starrmann

Margarethe Starrmann (born April 3, 1892 in Leipzig , † October 22, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ; also Margarethe Starrmann-Hunger ) was a consultant in Saxon ministries and a member of the Reichstag for the SPD .

Life

After attending secondary school, she attended a teacher and kindergarten teacher seminar . Then she completed a socio-educational women's seminar in Leipzig, which had emerged from the former university for women. She then took courses in economics as well as political science and law at the University of Frankfurt am Main and the Technical University in Dresden .

Several years of pedagogical activities at home and abroad followed. In 1914 she worked abroad in refugee care. After Saxony back in 1918, she participated in the development of the official welfare. From 1920 to 1925 she worked first as a consultant in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior, later in the Ministry of Labor and Welfare.

She participated in various legislative projects, such as the Reich Youth Welfare Act, the Youth Courts Act, the reform of illegitimate law and several protective laws for young people. From 1924 she worked for the magazine Blätter der Wohlfahrtspflege as editor and as a permanent employee of the workers' welfare .

In 1927 she became a member of the city welfare committee in Leipzig. From September 1930 to June 22, 1933 she was a member of the Reichstag for the SPD in constituency 29 of Leipzig . As early as February 1933, the attacks of the SA organizations on her and her apartment increased steadily. She evaded this pressure by moving to Frankfurt am Main, where she was in Weberstr. 18 lived.

After the session of the Reichstag on March 22, 1933, she broke down mentally because she could no longer withstand the pressure of persecution to be arrested at any time. She wandered around the railway lines and stations until March 27, when she found her home again. After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , she went into hiding with a different identity and worked as a kitchen helper in a barracks.

credentials

• Cuno Horkenbach : The German Empire from 1919 until today. Berlin 1930
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): The Reichstag members in the time of National Socialism. Düsseldorf 1992

Publications

• Starrmann-Hunger, Margarete and C. Kähling: Saxony. Studies of the economic, social and health conditions of the population. Edited by the State Welfare Foundation and the Saxon Red Cross (= series of publications of the Blätter der Wohlfahrtspflege, Vol. 1), Dresden 1924.

Web links

• Margarethe Starrmann in the database of members of the Reichstag
• " Current problems in welfare education (PDF; 784 kB)", contribution by Margarethe Starrmann-Hunger to the main committee for workers' welfare . Berlin, 1927.