Marie Schumann

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Marie Schumann , née Marlies Mork, (born July 27, 1921 in Memel , Memelland ; † March 25, 2017 in Hagen - Hohenlimburg ) was a local German politician , member of the SPD and district leader in Hohenlimburg from 1975 to 1989.

Life

Born in Memel, the Second World War first took her to Berlin , then to Krumpa in the Merseburg district , where she met Karl Schumann and married in 1946 after the war. After the birth of her two daughters Edda and Jutta, she fled the GDR and moved to Hohenlimburg in 1953, the city where her father Ernst Mork was born.

In Hohenlimburg she worked as an educator and DRK helper, where she met the then mayor Paul Knapp. Through him, Marie Schumann found her way to the SPD and ran for the first time for the Hohenlimburg city parliament in 1961. In 1964 she was directly elected to the district council of the then district of Iserlohn , to which the city of Hohenlimburg belonged, and worked there as a member until the municipal reorganization in 1974, especially in the field of school and cultural policy.

After Hohenlimburg was incorporated into the city of Hagen on January 1, 1975, Marie Schumann worked for Hohenlimburg for 14 years and five months; at the same time, she continued to fight intensively and tirelessly for Hohenlimburg's independence; however, a lawsuit before the state constitutional court in Münster was filed on November 11 Rejected November 1976.

Marie Schumann was also a member of the council of the city of Hagen as district chairwoman, and in 1989 she was awarded the Golden Pin of Merit by the Hagen twin city of Bruck an der Mur , and the twin city of Liévin made her an honorary citizen in 1990.

In 1989 she said goodbye to local politics, then headed the Hohenlimburg swimming club for many years and was a member of the spokesman for the citizens' initiative “Defend jobs - future for Hohenlimburg”, which in 1992 with a view to the merger of Friedrich Krupp AG with Hoesch AG and the associated threatened mass layoffs was established.

Marie Schumann had lived with her husband in a senior citizens' home in Hohenlimburg since 2006, and her husband died two years later at the age of 85. The honorary chairwoman of the SPD Hohenlimburg, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, the Order of Merit of UNESCO and the Ring of Honor of the Iserlohn district died at the age of 95 in her adopted home.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The heart of Hohenlimburg turns 90. In: Westfälische Rundschau. July 27, 2011, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  2. ^ Hohenlimburg mourns Marie Schumann. In: Westfälische Rundschau. March 28, 2017, accessed March 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mork, Marlies (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (SPD), Hagen-Hohenlimburg
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2017
Place of death Hohenlimburg