Margret from the ceiling

Margret von der Betten (born July 4, 1886 in Neustrelitz , Mecklenburg , † November 30, 1965 in West Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Margret von der Betten completed a social education and received state recognition as a welfare worker . She was a volunteer assistant in youth court assistance at the German Center for Youth Welfare in Berlin. In 1916 she became the second chairwoman of the German Association of Social Workers (DVS). Blankets became managing director of the headquarters of the German rural women in 1918 and head of family welfare in the Schöneberg district office in 1922 . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, she was given a criminal transfer for political unreliability. She became a welfare worker in the Neukölln district office .

After the Second World War , Betten joined the CDU in 1945 and was reinstated in the old position in the management of family welfare in Schöneberg. A year later she became district councilor for social affairs in Schöneberg. In 1949 she became the head of the refugee service at the Magistrate of Greater Berlin and in April 1949 moved to the City Council of Greater Berlin , since Walter Hahn (1894–1978) had been elected to the district councilor for nutrition in Schöneberg. After the Berlin election in 1950 , Leuchten was elected to the district councilor for social affairs in the district assembly in the Charlottenburg district; she resigned from office at the beginning of 1955 for reasons of age.

Blankets was Vice President of the German Red Cross , Berlin State Association.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 82 (331 pages).