Marie Kreft

Marie Kreft (née Fahsing ; born November 4, 1876 in Stadthagen ; † September 4, 1963 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Marie Kreft was born the daughter of a bricklayer. Since 1899 she was married to the carpenter and manager of the Stadthagener Konsumverein Wilhelm Kreft, who also belonged to the Social Democrats; she herself had joined the party in August 1910. The marriage, in which she worked primarily as a housewife, had two children. Her husband and son fell in the First World War . After her husband's death in 1915, she became involved in the social democratic women's movement, where she assumed leading positions.

Kreft was elected as a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe in 1919 , to which she belonged until 1933. During the Weimar Republic , she was the only woman who belonged to this state parliament.

After the National Socialists came to power , Kreft was imprisoned for two weeks in the city prison in Stadthagen. She was arrested again from August to September 1944 as part of the " Operation Grid ".

After the Second World War , she became involved in the reconstruction of the workers' welfare organization Schaumburg-Lippe , which she took over.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 202-203.

Web links

• Marie Kreft's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Political victims and persecuted persons of National Socialism in Stadthagen
• Jürgen Lingner: Searching for traces 1. The Social Democratic Party in Stadthagen 1887 to 1945