Maria Wolf

Maria Wolf , b. Harmanns (born July 7, 1900 in Krefeld , † December 29, 1980 in Trier ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After graduating from elementary school and attending commercial school, Maria Harmanns initially worked as a commercial clerk. She joined the Krefeld Workers 'Youth Association in 1919 and was a co-founder of the Socialist Workers' Youth in the SPD district of Niederrhein. In July 1921 she became a member of the SPD, for which she worked from 1920 to 1927 as a secretary in the Krefeld district office. In addition to her professional activity, she took on voluntary tasks in the SAJ and worked in the workers' welfare organization .

In 1926 Maria Harmanns married the journalist Waldemar Wolf, who worked at the Lower Rhine People's Tribune and was also a member of the Social Democrats. After her husband accepted a job as an editor at the Trier People's Guard in 1927 , the two moved to the Moselle, where their son was born a year later.

In addition to her work as a housewife, Maria Wolf continued to be politically active. She was a member of the board of the Trier SPD local association and from 1928 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1932 head of the local SPD women's group. Furthermore, she was a board member of the district working group “Social Service for Unemployed Youth”. In the state election in 1932, she ran for the Prussian state parliament , but received no mandate. After the National Socialists came to power , she had to resign from all political functions. Her husband was temporarily taken into " protective custody " in 1933 and later worked for a construction company.

After the Second World War , Wolf participated in the re-establishment of the Trier SPD, for which she sat on the city council from 1946 to 1952. In the state elections in 1951 she was elected for the first time as a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, to which she belonged without interruption until 1959.

Honors

• 1970: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Hedwig Brüchert: Rhineland-Palatinate women: women in politics, society, economy and culture in the early years of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. (= Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Volume 23), v. Hase and Koehler, Mainz 2001. pp. 447-449.
• Eberhard Klopp: History of the Trier workers' movement. A German example . Volume 3, Éditions Trèves, Trier 1979. p. 139.

Web links

• Entry on Maria Wolf in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database