Maria Niggemeyer

Maria Niggemeyer (born May 18, 1888 in Münster as Maria Keuper; † September 27, 1968 in Unna ) was a German politician ( center , later CDU ).

Life and work

After attending school, Niggemeyer completed the Catholic teachers 'seminar in Münster, graduated in 1907 with the teachers' examination and then worked as a primary school teacher in Gronau . She later became a housewife and in 1933 became chairwoman of the Catholic Welfare Association in the Unna district .

Political party

During the Weimar Republic , Niggemeyer was a member of the Center Party. After the Second World War she was one of the founders of the CDU in the Unna district. She had been a member of the executive board of the CDU Westphalia since 1948 , belonged to the local women's committee and was later elected its deputy chairman.

MPs

In Gronau, she ran for the city parliament in 1919 in the first election accessible to women and became the first female member of the city council for the center. Together with her husband Heinrich Niggemeyer, she came to Werne ad Lippe in 1920 and moved to Bönen in 1928 , where Heinrich Niggemeyer held a managerial position in the chemical department of a mine. After the Second World War, Maria Niggemeyer continued her commitment to local politics. She was elected to the council of Altenbögge in 1945 , sat in the Pelkum official assembly, had been a member of the district council of the Unna district since 1946 and chair of the CDU parliamentary group there since 1948.

Niggemeyer was a member of the Economic Council of the Bizone in 1948/49 . She was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1961. It represented the constituency of Paderborn - Wiedenbrück from 1949 to 1957 and entered parliament in 1957 via the state list of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia . From February 13, 1953 to 1957, she was chairman of the Bundestag committee on questions of public welfare, after having been deputy chairman of the committee since 1949.

Honors

In 1956, Maria Niggemeyer received the Grand Cross of Merit with a star from the Federal President in recognition of her local and national political work . In 1958, on her seventieth birthday, Pope Paul VI bestowed her . the Order of Honor " Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice ", with which clergy and lay people are honored for their services to the Catholic Church.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 605.
• Josef Börste and Uta C. Schmidt: "She is a stately figure ..." Maria Niggemeyer - a great old lady in politics. In: Yearbook of the Unna District 2011 , pp. 73–88.

Web links

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