Maria Detzel

Maria Detzel , née Rath , (born April 6, 1892 in Güls (today Koblenz), † July 5, 1965 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After finishing school, Maria Rath attended business school and completed her training as an accountant in 1909. Then she worked as an office clerk and accountant. In 1913 she married Peter Detzel. During the First World War she did voluntary service as a nurse in the fortress hospital in Koblenz and was then involved in caring for war victims. In 1917 her husband fell at the front. In 1918 she became a clerk in the Koblenz main supply office and in 1926 managing director of the pacifist Reich Association of War Victims in the Koblenz administrative district. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, she was arrested several times and then received various short-term employment, among other things, she worked from 1938 to 1939 as a secretary in the paymaster's office Infantry Regiment 80 and from 1939 to 1944 as a secretary at the Koblenz Süßmosterei Frömbgen. In 1944 she was arrested again as part of the grating action . In 1946 she began working in the pension administration, afterwards she was a government councilor and advisor for war victims in the Ministry of Labor and Welfare and from 1954 to 1957 she was government director and head of the Rhineland-Palatinate pension office in Koblenz.

politics

In 1920 Maria Detzel became a member of the SPD and the free trade union. In 1924 he was elected a member of the SPD district executive and the Koblenz city council. From 1927 to 1933 she was a member of the Koblenz City Council. From 1928 she was a member of the SPD sub-district executive committee in Koblenz and from 1930 deputy chairwoman of the local SPD association. In the time of National Socialism she was a member of the DAF , NSV and Nazi war victims' pension .

In 1945 she was a co-founder of the SPD and the trade unions in Koblenz and a member of the citizens' council. From 1946 to 1962 she was a member of the city council and the city council of Koblenz. In 1946 she became deputy chairwoman of the SPD sub-district of Koblenz and in 1947 a member of the social policy committee of the SPD federal executive board and member of the board of the SPD district association Rhineland / Hessen-Nassau.

In 1946 she was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Regional Advisory Assembly . On March 29, 1947, she resigned from the congregation and Alfons Kraft took her place.

In addition, in 1919 she was a member of the board of the "Economic Association of War Survivors" in Koblenz, in 1922 a member of the state executive and in 1924 of the Reich Committee. She was a member of the supply and national supply court in Berlin, the AWO and the presidium of the association of war victims and civilly injured.

Awards

• Freiherr vom Stein plaque (1955)
• Federal Cross of Merit, First Class (1962)

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 , 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , pp. 136-137 .

Web links

• Biography of Maria Detzel on mahnmal-koblenz.de