Margarethe Woehrmann

Margarete (Grete) Wöhrmann (born July 19, 1900 in Hamburg ; † January 7, 1989 there ) was a politician of the SPD and a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Before Grete Wöhrmann got married, she completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked in the public sector as a typist and secretary. In 1923 she married Bernhard Wöhrmann and was immediately dismissed. At that time there was a provision that married women were not allowed to be employed by the state. A friend found her to do voluntary work in a girls' home in Hamburg, which she carried out for about a year until her first child was born. In 1924 the second child was born.

politics

Historic stone
in the women's garden

Grete Wöhrmann joined the SPD in 1918 and was, among other things, active in the Workers' Youth Association . Despite the children, she worked there throughout the Weimar Republic . Within the SPD, she was a member of the Hamburg-Altona board from 1929 to 1933, as well as the main board of the Hamburg workers' welfare organization . As early as 1930 and 31, she was the women's leader of the Hamburg Social Democrats and campaigned for the active participation of women in the party. She also ran for the Prussian state parliament in the early 1930s.

For her and her husband, the time of National Socialism entered their time together as a " sad, black and terrible phase of life ".

After the end of the Nazi regime, Grete Wöhrmann and her husband were involved in rebuilding the Social Democratic Party in Hamburg. At the SPD party congress from May 8 to 11, 1946 in Hanover, she was appointed as a delegate for the Hamburg-Blankenese local association . She also belonged to the first democratic citizenship after the Second World War from October 1946 . In the first electoral term of the citizenship only 15% were women (out of 110 seats), of which 15 mandates fell to the SPD and one each to the FDP and the KPD. During her time as a member of the citizenship, she was listed in the parliamentary files as "housewife".

Grete Wöhrmann was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery and added to the list of “graves of well-known personalities”. Her tombstone has been in the women's garden at Ohlsdorf cemetery since July 2015 .

literature

• Inge Grolle and Rita Bake : “I practiced juggling with three balls.” Women in the Hamburg citizenship from 1946 to 1993. Verlag Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg 1995, p. 408, ISBN 3-930802-01-5 (on behalf of State Center for Political Education Hamburg ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The nickname Grete is sometimes used in official documents.
2. ↑ Grolle / Bake, "I have ...", p. 408, (see literature list)
3. ^ Socialist Communications, No. 87 / June 1946
4. ↑ List of the “graves of well-known personalities” in the Ohlsdorf cemetery ( memento of the original from August 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.