Maria Günzl

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Maria Günzl , also Marie Günzl (born March 23, 1896 in Zwodau , Austria-Hungary , † January 7, 1983 in Planegg ), was a Bavarian politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Bavarian State Parliament .

Life

Günzl attended elementary school and then middle school for three years. In 1910 she became a member of the Association of Young Workers Austria. In addition, she worked as a factory worker and later became a consultant for youth work in West Bohemia . From 1918 to 1927 Günzl was district chairwoman of the social democratic women's association in Graslitz and from January 1, 1927 to September 30, 1938 she was the women's secretary of the district organization of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in Karlsbad . During this time she became a member of the editorial staff of the people's will , and in 1932 chairwoman of the cooperative women's committee in the Sudetenland .

After the Munich Agreement and the subsequent annexation of the Sudetenland, Günzl was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938 and imprisoned in Eger . At Easter 1939 she was sent to the Lichtenburg concentration camp and at the end of May 1939 she was transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . From 1941 to 1945 she was obliged to work for a warehouse company in Graslitz . In 1945 Günzl was arrested again for illegally assisting a Royal Air Force parachutist . However, Günzl's execution, scheduled for May 8, 1945, was no longer carried out as revolting citizens released her from prison.

After the end of the Second World War , Günzel was resident in Bavaria as a displaced person from 1946 . There she began to be politically active again.

From November 1, 1946 to July 30, 1947, she was women's secretary in the SPD sub-district of Munich, and then from April 1, 1948 to December 31, 1950, women's secretary in the SPD district of southern Bavaria. From 1948 to 1972 she was a member of the Munich-Land district council . From 1950 to 1953 she was chairwoman of the SPD regional women’s working group in Bavaria. From November 26, 1950 to November 25, 1962, Günzl was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament. The state parliament elected her as a member of the third federal assembly , which in 1959 elected Heinrich Lübke as federal president .

Günzl was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on May 9, 1961 . The Maria Günzl-Weg in Planegg is named after her.

Günzl was also active as an author of fairy tales, poems and the writing of her experiences in prison. Your estate is in the archive of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .

literature

  • Maria Günzl: Freedom, when will you be resurrected…. In: Gerda Szepansky (Ed.): Women offer resistance: 1933–1945. Frankfurt 1994, pp. 250-275.
  • Barbara Degen: "The heart beats in Ravensbrück" - The commemorative culture of women. Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-86649-288-2 (biographies attached ; PDF; 1.2 MB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günzl, Maria (Marie) . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Gaa to Gymnich] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 413 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 297 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Günzl, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günzl, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwodau , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1983
Place of death Planegg