Marie Schlei

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1974 with Loki Schmidt and Dietrich Stobbe
1976 with Helmut Schmidt

Marie Schlei , b. Stabenow, (born November 26, 1919 in Reetz , Arnswalde district , † May 21, 1983 in Berlin ) was a German politician of the SPD and from 1976 to 1978 Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation .

biography

education and profession

Berlin memorial plaque on the house, Allmendeweg 112, in Berlin-Tegel
Marie Schlei's honorary grave is decorated with a (Berlin) bear

After finishing secondary school , Marie Schlei passed the first and second teacher exams, worked as a saleswoman and as a post office and administrative clerk in local government. In 1945 she fled Pomerania to the Weser Uplands . From 1947 she worked as a teacher or principal, most recently as a school councilor.

politics

Party: Schlei had been a member of the SPD since 1949.

MPs

From 1969 to November 3, 1981 she was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1973 to 1974 she was a member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1978 to 1980 she was chairwoman of the foreign policy working group of the SPD parliamentary group and since 1980 deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group.

Public offices

From 1974 to 1976 Schlei was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery . After the federal election in 1976 she was appointed Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt on December 14, 1976 . It fell through racist statements such as "The negroes are like the Jews, who smell whether you like them". During the cabinet reshuffle in the spring of 1978, she was no longer taken into account and therefore left the federal government on February 16, 1978.

Honors

  • Schlei is buried in the Martin-Luther-Kirchhof in Berlin-Tegel . Her grave is a Berlin grave of honor .
  • In 2009 a Berlin memorial plaque was attached to her former home, Allmendeweg 112 in Berlin-Tegel .
  • A nearby square in Berlin was given her name in 2013, on the 30th anniversary of her death.
  • The Marie-Schlei-Allee in Bonn got her name in 2012.
  • The Marie-Schlei-Weg in Bargteheide was named after her.

See also

literature

  • Reimar Oltmanns (ed.): Women in power - Marie Schlei - Renate Schmidt - Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer - Rita Süssmuth - Antje Vollmer. Protocols of an era of new beginnings (=  athenaeum program ). Hain, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-445-08551-X .
  • Marianne Blasinski: Marie Schlei. From worker child to minister . Sternberg, Metzingen 1994, ISBN 3-87785-021-9 .
  • Michael Bohnet : History of German Development Policy: Strategies, Interior Views, Contemporary Witnesses , Challenges , Konstanz / Munich, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft 2015 (utb4320), ISBN 978-3-8252-4320-3 , pp. 87–94.b

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The woman overestimates her possibilities . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1977, pp. 23-25 ( online - 4 April 1977 ).
  2. ^ Rüdiger Franz: Streifzug: Winkelsweg renamed Marie-Schlei-Allee. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . January 19, 2012, accessed February 4, 2012 .
  3. ^ Ceremonial naming of the Marie-Schlei-Platz ( Memento from May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) AWO Kreisverband Berlin-Nordwest eV accessed on May 8, 2014
  4. ^ Marie-Schlei-Allee in the Bonn street cadastre

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personal data
SURNAME Schlei, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Reetz , Arnswalde district
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1983
Place of death Berlin