Maria Rigel

Maria Rigel

Maria Rigel (born September 11, 1869 in Adelsheim , † September 10, 1937 in Konstanz ) was a German politician ( center ). She was a member of the Baden state parliament from 1919 to 1933.

Life

Maria Rigel was born as the daughter of the notary Cornel Anton Patricius Rigel. After primary school in Adelsheim, she attended the secondary girls' school in Mannheim from 1883 to 1884 and the Offenburg monastery institute from 1884 to 1887 . From 1887 to 1889 she trained at the teacher training college in Karlsruhe and on August 5, 1889, she was accepted into the Baden school service as a primary school candidate. She worked as a teacher at secondary schools for girls in Forst and Überlingen , in Waldshut and on the Reichenau . In 1927 she was in Mannheim principal at the school in the square 5. K It was treated on October 1, 1932 due to her poor health on hiatus, on July 1, 1934, based on § 6 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil lasting into the Retirement.

In 1934 she moved to Ludwigshafen.

politics

She was elected to the Mannheim city ​​council in 1919 , to which she belonged until 1926. From 1919 to 1933 she was a member of the central parliamentary group in the Baden state parliament. In line with her training and professional experience, she was primarily involved in the field of educational policy and equality.

She was a member of the main board of the Association of Baden Teachers, the Catholic German Women's Association and from 1912 to 1933 chairwoman of the Mannheim branch.

Honors

In 2007 the city of Mannheim named a street after Maria Rigel.

literature

• Konrad Exner : Maria Rigel - Mannheim delegate in the Baden state parliament after the introduction of women's suffrage in 1919. In: Badische Heimat 1/2007.
• Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament - Southwest German MPs since 1919, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-923476-16-9 , pp. 58f.

Web links

• Speeches by Maria Rigel in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek