Marta Damkowski
Marta Damkowski , nee Marta Bröker , also Martha Damkowski (born March 16, 1911 in Stade , † August 9, 1979 in Hamburg ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism and a social democratic politician.
Life
Marta Damkowski, who had been a member of the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft der Kinderfreunde since 1923 , completed a commercial apprenticeship after secondary school and joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in 1927 and in the following year in protest against the building of the armored cruiser from the latter and joined the International Socialist Combat League (ISK ) at.
After the takeover of the NSDAP Marta Damkowski was 1933 until their arrest in 1937 active in various places in the resistance work of the ISK. After Martha had attended a training course for ISK members in Bad Tölz in the winter of 1937/38 , she was arrested by the Gestapo on her return . She was taken to the remand prison on Alexanderplatz in Berlin , where she was interrogated intensively. On December 8, 1938, she was sentenced by the People's Court to a thirteen-month prison term on charges of preparing for high treason. Her husband Herbert Damkowski , who was also convicted in the same trial, was killed in 1944 as a soldier in Penal Division 999 in Romania.
In 1945, after the liberation from National Socialism , Marta Damkowski joined the SPD , of which she was women's secretary from 1946 to 1949. In 1947 she was elected to the Hamburg parliament, to which she belonged until 1953. Professionally she was a civil servant of the Hamburg “ prison authority ” at the time, temporarily as head of the Hamburg women's prison on Hahnöfersand .
Politically, she continued to be involved in the women's movement (for example for a reform of § 218 ) and on socio-political issues. Marta Damkowski was at times a. a. the Federal Women's Committee and the SPD Party Council, the Hamburg State Executive Committee of Workers' Welfare and was active in the working group of social democratic women shortly before her death .
Her son Wulf Damkowski is a university professor and politician in Hamburg.
Honors
A street in Hamburg-Neuallermöhe in the Bergedorf district has been named after Marta Damkowski since 1986 .
On the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in the area of the honorary field of the Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation , grid square Bn 73 No. 342 (left of the path, penultimate block: seventh row, fourteenth stone), there is a pillow stone for Marta Damkowski and her husband.
literature
- Short biography in: Jan Foitzik: Between the Fronts. On the politics, organization and function of left political small organizations in the resistance from 1933 to 1939/40 . Bonn 1986, p. 262
Web links
- Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933-1945
- Biography with a portrait of Marta Damkowski at Frauenbiografien hamburg .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ruth Sanio-Metafides: Martha Damkowski - Political Resistance and Consistent Engagement, ver.di -Ararbeitskreis AntiRassismus Hamburg 2019, pp. 2–3
- ↑ Celebrity Graves
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Damkowski, Marta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bröker, Marta (maiden name); Damkowski, Martha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (ISK, SPD), Member of the Bundestag and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stade |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1979 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |