Margot Kalinke

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Margot Kalinke (born April 23, 1909 in Bartschin near Bromberg , † November 25, 1981 in Munich ) was a German politician ( DP , later CDU ).

Life and work

She attended the German Lyceum in Bromberg. After qualifying for the upper primary school, Margot Kalinke was expelled from Poland like many other Germans in 1925 . She then attended the higher commercial school in Goslar and from 1927 worked as a commercial clerk in the field of social security. Until 1933, she volunteered in the Christian trade unions and in the association of female trade and office workers. Then she went into the free economy. From 1939 to 1946 she was managing director of a health insurance company in Hanover and from 1947 to 1952 of the association of salaried health insurance companies in Hamburg . In 1946 she was one of the co-founders of the Association of Female Employees (VWA), in whose predecessor organization, the Association of Female Commercial Office Workers , she had been volunteering before 1933. From 1949 until her death she was chairwoman of the VWA. From 1953 to 1974 she was the head of the social policy office of private health insurance companies. She was part of the board of directors of the Federal Insurance Agency for Salaried Employees and in the 1950s she was a member of the advisory board for the reorganization of social benefits at the Federal Minister of Labor .

politics

Margot Kalinke was part of the Nazi women's group until 1945 .

In 1946 she joined the German Party and was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1946 to 1949 . In 1947/48 she was a member of the Zone Advisory Council .

From 1949 to 1953 and from June 3, 1955, when she replaced Heinrich Hellwege , until 1972 she was a member of the German Bundestag . In the federal election in 1957 , she won the constituency of Celle directly on the basis of an election agreement between the DP and the CDU. The fact that Kalinke, as a newcomer from the East, was put up as a direct candidate, sparked protests within the party in 1957 and was felt by long-established conservative members on the grassroots as "intolerable". Otherwise she moved into parliament via the Lower Saxony state list of the DP.

Together with Ernst Farke , she represented the DP's employee wing in parliament during the time she belonged to the DP. From September 1955 to 1957 she was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for questions of public welfare. From 1957 until she left the party on July 1, 1960, she was deputy parliamentary group leader of the DP. Kalinke played a decisive role in the joint transition of 9 of the then 15 DP MPs to the CDU .

On September 20, 1960, she joined the CDU / CSU parliamentary group after a short period of non-affiliation . In the subsequent election in 1961 (and in all subsequent elections until she left in 1972) she was re-elected via the CDU state list. From 1969 to 1971 she was state chairwoman of the CDU women's association in Lower Saxony .

She was also a member of the Landsmannschaft West Prussia from 1949 until her death .

Equality policy

Margot Kalinke was - unlike the majority of women in her party - a vehement opponent of the so-called casting vote in marriage, with which the man could have asserted his view in disputes in all matters affecting the spouses. Together with Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (CDU), she voted in the legal committee of the Bundestag for the amendment proposed by the FDP parliamentary group, thereby causing the government parliamentary groups CDU / CSU, GB / BHE and DP to be defeated. The "Law on Equality between Men and Women in the Field of Civil Law" was passed on June 18, 1957 without this discriminatory clause.

Appreciation

A street in Munich , where Margot Kalinke spent the last years of her life, was named after her in 1996.

literature

  • Regine Marquardt: The yes to politics , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 1999, pages 253-281
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 402-403.
  • Margot Kalinke , In: International Biographical Archive. 10/1982 of March 1, 1982, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Margot Kalinke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://kulturportal-west-ost.eu/biographien/kalinke-margot-2
  2. ↑ Kalinke, Margot . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 583 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Frank Bösch: The conservative milieu. Club culture and local collection policy in East and West German regions (1900–1960). Wallstein Verlag, 2002, p. 204.
  4. ^ German party: The waste. In: Der Spiegel , No. 29/1960, July 13, 1960, pp. 13-23.
  5. ↑ https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kommunalreferat/geodatenservice/strassennamen/1996/Margot-Kalinke.html
personal data
SURNAME Kalinke, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DP, CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bartschin near Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1981
Place of death Munich