Maria Eckertz

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Maria Augusta Theresia Theodora Eckertz , née Flerlage (born December 21, 1899 in Hamburg , † December 19, 1969 in Cologne ) was a German politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and resistance fighter against National Socialism . In 1932/33 she was a member of the Prussian state parliament and in 1946 a city ​​councilor in Cologne.

Life

Eckertz, daughter of the chief telegraph secretary Theodor Flerlage, attended a Hamburg lyceum and then worked as a telephone operator. In 1921 she married the elementary school teacher Theodor Eckertz (1896–1984) and went to Cologne with him. In 1927 she joined the KPD and was elected a member of the district committee of Red Aid Germany (RHD).

In 1932 Eckertz was elected to the Prussian Landtag for the KPD in the Cologne-Aachen constituency, to which she belonged until the National Socialists came to power and communist activities were banned in March 1933. She was arrested in April 1933 and held in so-called protective custody until August 15, 1934 without a judgment . Her husband was imprisoned from 1933 to 1938 and was severely ill-treated.

In 1936 Eckertz was arrested again several times, but released again. From 1937 to 1939 she worked as a textile worker and then until 1944 for a construction company in Cologne. After the return of her husband, the couple was under intense scrutiny of the Secret State Police (Gestapo), but still had contact with resistance circles. In 1939 Theodor Eckertz was arrested again. In 1944 Maria Eckertz was arrested and interned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . On April 25, 1945 she was able to join a transport of 4,000 Polish prisoners who, through successful negotiations between Count Folke Bernadotte and the Nazi German Reich , were able to get to Sweden and thus survive the concentration camps .

After the end of the Second World War , Eckertz was seriously ill with tuberculosis and did not return to Germany until March 1946. In 1946 she was appointed city councilor in Cologne. After that she no longer appeared politically.

Eckertz died two days before her 70th birthday in her apartment in Cologne-Dünnwald.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 2708 from December 22, 1969, registry office Cologne-East. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Manfred Demmer, On the 100th birthday of Hugo Paul - Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia , In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung , October 4, 2005.
  3. ↑ Michael F. Scholz, Scandinavian experiences desired ?: Post-exile and remigration , Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart, 2000, ISBN 3-515-07651-4 , p. 353
personal data
SURNAME Eckertz, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckertz, Maria Augusta Theresia Theodora (full name); Flerlage, Maria Augusta Theresia Theodora (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), member of the Prussian state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 19th December 1969
Place of death Cologne