Marianne Laqueur
Marianne Laqueur (born June 11, 1918 in Berlin ; † April 5, 2006 in Wiesbaden ) was a German computer scientist and local politician.
Marianne Laqueur was the daughter of August and Ilse Laqueur, b. Net. Her father was a doctor and physiotherapist at the Virchow Hospital in Berlin. When he lost his job under the National Socialists due to his Jewish descent in 1936, his parents emigrated to Turkey with their daughter Marianne and lived in Ankara . Their older brother Kurt Laqueur followed them later.
Marianne looked for a job as “language tips”, as she herself said, in a Turkish bank and translated from Turkish into English and German. During the Second World War she worked, among other things, for the Turkish section of the Jewish Agency in Ankara. She stayed in Turkey until 1960. Worldwide assignments for various companies, so u. a. IBM and NCR followed over the next forty years. Marianne Laqueur became one of the first female computer specialists . She worked in Beirut , Tel Aviv , North Africa and the USA . She only returned to Germany in the 1980s.
From 1993 to 1997 she was a member of the city council for the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Wiesbaden city parliament. From 1994 to 1997 she acted as deputy group leader. In the last decade of her life, she was a sought-after contemporary witness who was able to tell from her own experience about the escape from Germany and her exile in Turkey.
Web links
- Exile in Turkey 1933–1945
- Kurt Laqueur: Guest workers in Anatolia. The German contribution to the development of the Turkish capital ( Memento from June 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Active Museum, Fascism and Resistance in Berlin eV (Ed.): Haymatloz. Exile in Turkey 1933 - 1945. Catalog for the permanent exhibition , Berlin 2000.
- Walter Laqueur : Born in Germany. The exodus of the Jewish youth after 1933 . Propylaea, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-549071221 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Christiane Kreiner: Exile in Ankara - How the Laqueur family found refuge in Ataturk's state. In: hr2. Hessischer Rundfunk, March 31, 2005, accessed on May 4, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laqueur, Marianne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician (Bündnis90 / Die Grünen) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 2006 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |