Maria Ansorge
Maria Ansorge , also Marie Ansorge , b. Maria Scholz (born 15. December 1880 in Löchau ; died 11. July 1955 in Dorsten ) was a German politician of the SPD . From 1920 to 1933 she was almost always a member of the Reichstag and from 1951 to 1953 as a successor in the German Bundestag .
Life and political career
After attending elementary school , Ansorge worked as a laborer in agriculture from 1894. Since 1893 she was employed in various branches of the textile industry, and from 1907 to 1911 she was also a member of the board of directors of the textile workers' association and the union cartel in Friedland. Then to 1918 in the cooperative as coffee reader and Expedientin worked in a bakery. From 1918 to 1920 she also worked as a newspaper carrier.
Ansorge was active in the SPD as early as 1905 and had been a member of the district executive of the Social Democratic Association and the Waldenburg trade union cartel since 1910. Among other things, she was the founder and, from 1913, also head of the “Women and Children Protection Commission” in Waldenburg / Silesia . In addition, in 1917 she was a co-founder of the local workers' welfare organization . In 1919 she became a member of the district council and worked for the newspaper Schlesische Bergwacht (editor-in-chief was Paul Löbe ). From 1930 to 1933 she headed the workers' welfare in Waldenburg. During the first years of National Socialism she was arrested several times and had to endure house searches. In connection with the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , she was arrested again and held in the Ravensbrück concentration camp for several months . Immediately after the end of the war, she was appointed mayor of Nieder-Salzbrunn by the Soviet occupation , but then expelled by the Polish authorities in 1946 because she did not want to take on Polish citizenship. In West Germany, Ansorge was committed to the reconstruction of the SPD and the workers' welfare in Marl .
Ansorge was a member of the Reichstag from 1920 to May 1924 and from December 1924 to 1933 . From 1948 she was a member of the city council of Marl. She was a member of the first Federal Assembly and belonged to the German Bundestag from November 17, 1951, when she replaced her deceased party friend Karl Brunner , until 1953 . Her area of activity in the parliaments, the Reichstag and the Bundestag, was the pension for surviving dependents . In the Weimar Republic it was the provision of war widows and their families after the First World War, especially with regard to the working class . After the Second World War, it fought for adequate provisions for the bereaved, which was by no means guaranteed in the 1950s because the victorious powers, as the body approving new laws, were not inclined to adequately compensate victims of the lost war. Maria Ansorge has always been politically committed to social democratic internationalism . In 1955 she died of a stroke .
Works
- Annual report Waldenburg. In: Arbeiterwohlfahrt. 3, issue 5. 1928, pp. 156–157 ( library.fes.de digitalisat).
- Report of the district management of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Waldenburg, Silesia, for the year 1929. In: Arbeiterwohlfahrt. 5, No. 7, 1930, pp. 220-222. ( library.fes.de digitized version ).
literature
- Marie Ansorge. In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume I. Deceased personalities. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, pp. 343-344.
- Regine Marquardt : Yes to politics. Women in the German Bundestag 1949–1961. Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2274-8 .
- Gisela Notz : Maria Ansorge - "We are never too old to realize our socialist ideas." In: Jahrbuch for research on the history of the labor movement . Issue III / 2002.
- Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
- Werner Reutter: Ansorge, Maria (1880–1955). A life for politics and society. In: Siegfried Mielke (ed.): Trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution, resistance, emigration. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 3-89861-914-1 , pp. 50–59.
Web links
- Maria Ansorge in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Bundestag.de: Federal Assembly (PDF; 5.3 MB)
- Gisela Notz: Maria Ansorge, 1880–1955. Courageous campaigner for the poor and weak. ( Frauenruhrgeschichte.de ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Regine Marquardt: Maria Ansorge (1880–1955). A worker in the Bundestag. In: Yes to politics. Women in the German Bundestag 1949–1961. Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2274-8 , p. 45 ff. ( Books.google.de ).
- ↑ Ansorge, Marie, b. on December 15, 1880 in Löchau (Bohemia). In: Negotiations of the German Reichstag. reichstag-abuellerdatenbank.de, accessed on November 30, 2018 .
- ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: Ansorge, Maria, geb. Scholz . In: Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag 1949–2002 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-096905-4 , p. 16 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Regine Marquardt: Yes to politics. Women in the German Bundestag 1949–1961. P. 62 ff. ( Books.google.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ansorge, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ansorge, Marie; Scholz, Maria (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdR, MdB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Löchau |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1955 |
| Place of death | Dorsten |