Marie Schmidt (politician)

Marie Schmidt née Kühn (born February 10, 1895 in Egelsbach ; † June 14, 1971 in Neu-Isenburg ) was a Hessian politician ( KPD Hessen ) and a member of the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic .

family

Marie Schmidt was the second youngest of seven daughters of the farmer Heinrich Kühn (1849–1929) and his wife Elisabeth, born Born (1859–1921). She married the plasterer Adolf Theodor Schmidt (1890–1944) on April 23, 1914

Marie Schmidt worked as a housewife in Egelsbach. After the death of her husband in 1943, Marie Schmidt worked in a post office in Frankfurt. In 1945 she moved to Neu-Isenburg to live with her daughter Margot.

Her son Theo fled to the Saar region in 1934 and from 1936 participated in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the International Brigades and fell in 1937 near Tarragona .

politics

Marie Schmidt was active in the proletarian free-thinker movement and joined the KPD. She was elected to the municipal council of Egelsbach. As a speaker for the KPD in Hesse, she appeared very aggressive and was therefore given the name "Rote Marie".

Marie Schmidt was one of the three female members of the Hessian state parliament for the KPD from 1931 to 1932 in the 5th electoral term.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, she and her husband were briefly arrested in March 1933 and released after a few weeks. After the war she became a member of the KPD and DFD again and then withdrew from political life.

literature

• Gerhard Beier : Labor movement in Hessen. On the history of the Hessian labor movement through one hundred and fifty years (1834–1984). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-458-14213-4 , p. 550.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 336.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 778.
• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , pp. 231–232.
• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).

Web links

• Schmidt, Marie. Hessian biography. (As of August 11, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).