Maria Krüger (politician)

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Maria Krüger , née Fraedrich, divorced Bücking (born October 17, 1907 in Gotha ; † January 7, 1987 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

biography

Krüger was a daughter of the Horner pastor Gustav Fraedrich. She graduated from high school and trained as a kindergarten teacher at the women's school. Then she worked in the company kindergarten of the jute spinning and weaving mill in Bremen . In 1929 she met her husband, the communist Klaus Bücking (1908–1980), and the works council member of the jute spinning mill Käthe Popall . Through Bücking she came to the Red Aid and in 1931 became a member of the KPD. In the women's employment and training club she was also active until the 1933rd Her husband was arrested in 1933 and again in 1936. He was in prison for eight years . At the end of 1936 the son Bernd was born. She had to give up her job during the Nazi era and ran a lending library in the port area of ​​Bremen. In 1942 she was arrested and spent a year in prison in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel . Maria Bücking divorced in the 1930s. In 1943 she married the communist and plumber Werner Krüger.

After the Second World War , she worked from 1948 to 1972 as a social worker at the special school on Nonnenberg in Bremen- Oslebshausen . She lived in Bremen- Gröpelingen . Politically, she stayed with the KPD and was a founding member of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) in Bremen. She was a member of the Education and Science Union (GEW) and, since 1946, of the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom . She led the Democratic Women's League of Germany (DFD) from 1951 to prohibiting the DFD by the Federal Republic training events.

For the period from 1951 to 1959 she was elected a member of the Bremen citizenship . She was a co-founder of the Bremen Women's Committee . After the KPD was banned, she was involved in the reconstitution of the German Communist Party (DKP) in Bremen in June 1968 . Until her death she was active in the district committee of Bremen / Lower Saxony-Northwest of her party. After her retirement she was active in helping mentally handicapped children .

Honors

The Maria-Kruger Street in Bremen- Ohlenhof was named after her.

Fonts (selection)

  • with son Bernd Bücking (Red.): Memories 1907–1970 . Bernd Bücking, Munich 2011 (third edition, edited new version)

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