Maria Brand

Maria Brand , née Renschen (born August 19, 1877 in Cappeln , † May 7, 1956 in Essen / Oldenburg ) was the first female member of the state parliament in the Oldenburg state parliament and a member of the Center Party .

Life

Maria Brand was the daughter of Hermann Renschen in Cappeln from Zell and his wife Henriette nee. Peek. Maria Brand had two brothers and a sister. Her brother Josef Renschen was a pastor in Dinklage and held the office of dean . After elementary school in Essen, she attended the daughter's school in Vechta-Marienhain.

On October 24, 1899, she married the businessman Josef Brand (1859–1923) in Essen / Oldenburg. The marriage had eight children. The Brand family came from Scharrel ( Saterland ) and founded a manufactured goods store in Essen in 1765, which developed from a rural department store into a larger trading house and made the family wealthy and respected. Maria Brand worked actively in the company's commercial area.

In December 1919, Maria Brand succeeded Wilhelm Griep from Ramsloh and became the first female parliamentarian in the Oldenburg state parliament , which was made possible by the passive right to vote for women. In total, there were only four female MPs in the Oldenburg state parliament: Maria Brand, Elisabeth Frerichs , Auguste Henke and Ilsa Wübbenhorst .

On November 26, 1919, the Vechtaer OV announced:

"Mrs. Joseph Brand is instead of the Abg. Griep joined the LT. This is the first time that a woman is moving into the Oldenburg parliament and is more or less satisfied with the new times in this respect. "

The fact that the newspaper presented the new MP by her husband's first name was an expression of the male class consciousness in the Catholic public in South Oldenburg, which had a long tradition. It was not limited to the political message, but also applied to public reporting, for example of deaths.

On December 12, 1919, Landtag President Ernst Tantzen ( Stollhamm ) welcomed the Landtag members with the words:

"Gentlemen! The Oldenburg State Representation is experiencing a historic day today. For the first time we have the honor of welcoming a lady among us as a member of Parliament (Bravo!). Mrs. Brand has entered the state parliament. I welcome Ms. Brand with the wish that her work in the Landtag will give her full satisfaction! "

The first state parliament dissolved on April 20, 1920 and set the date for its new election on the day of the next Reichstag election. Maria Brand declined to run for the second Landtag to be elected on June 6, 1920.

Her mother-in-law, Hedwigis Brand, was the daughter of Gerhard Crone , a member of the state parliament from Zeller in Ahausen near Essen, who had belonged to the state parliament in 1848 and from 1849 to 1857. Her interest in politics and current affairs may therefore and from her contacts with the state parliament member Dr. gr. [oße] side dish .

literature

• Albrecht Eckhardt: From the bourgeois revolution to the National Socialist takeover of power - The Oldenburg State Parliament and its members 1848–1933, 1996, ISBN 3-89598-327-6 , page 89
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 56.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ECKHARDT, Landtag, p. 95; Essen, 1000 years, p. 143f. Merchant Wilhelm Griep (1884 - 1956), community leader and later community director in Ramsloh, had given up his state parliament mandate in a letter of November 4, 1919 due to overloading with professional and official work. He was a member of the state parliament from 1916 to 1919. On November 20, 1919, Maria Brand announced to election commissioner Dugend that she would accept the election. She had run for 13th place on the center list of the Oldenburg Representatives' Day (OV of February 7, 1919)
2. ^ Albrecht Eckhardt: From the bourgeois revolution to the National Socialist takeover of power, page 21
3. ^ OV of November 26, 1919