Marie Henning

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Marie Caroline Henriette Henning , née Marie Mahnke , (born December 26, 1895 in Nossentiner Hütte , † January 5, 1948 in Hamburg ) was a communist politician.

Life

Ernst Henning's wife had been a member of the KPD since 1920 and there a. a. Active in the women's policy department of the Wasserkante district management . She also belonged to the Red Aid . After the murder of her husband (who had belonged to the Hamburg citizenship since 1927 ) by several SA men on March 14, 1931, the now widowed mother of three children was nominated by the KPD for the citizenship elections in September 1931 and elected to the state parliament, which she belonged until 1933.

After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, Marie Henning was imprisoned several times, first from May to June 1933, then in March 1936 and most recently from August 28 to the end of September 1944 as part of Aktion Gewitter . After the liberation in May 1945, she was active on the committee of former political prisoners in Hamburg-Bergedorf until her death .

Marie Henning, who had to be treated in hospital several times after the liberation, died in 1948 at the age of 53 as a result of cancer.

family

Urn grave of Ernst and Marie Henning, their second husband Carl Rohde and a memorial for their son Otto, who died in 1944

Marie Henning was married to Ernst Henning from 1913 until his murder on March 14, 1931 and from this marriage had two daughters and a son Otto, who died on the Eastern Front in August 1944. In her second marriage, she married the former Reichsbannerführer Carl Rohde on October 20, 1936 . After his service at the Heereszeugamt Glinde he had an accident on June 5, 1944 in the ammunition depot rifle ham as a result of the explosion of a bazooka .

Honors

In 1995, a street in Bergedorf's Neuallermöhe district , the Marie-Henning-Weg , was named after Marie Henning.

literature

  • Short biography in: Rita Bake / Brita Reimers: This is how they lived! Walking on the paths of women in Hamburg's old and new town , Hamburg 2003, p. 199.
  • Alfred Dreckmann: Everything was the same in Bergedorf! The struggle for the Weimar Republic and workers' resistance to fascism . Castle booklet 9, Bergedorf 2004.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alfred Dreckmann: Everything was the same in Bergedorf! . Schloßheft 9, Bergedorf 2004, pp. 172-173.
  2. ↑ Alfred Dreckmann: Everything was the same in Bergedorf! . Schloßheft 9, Bergedorf 2004, p. 172.
  3. ↑ Alfred Dreckmann: Everything was the same in Bergedorf! . Schloßheft 9, Bergedorf 2004, p. 173.
personal data
SURNAME Henning, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henning, Marie Henriette; Mancke, Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Nossentiner hut
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1948
Place of death Hamburg