Martha Brach

Martha Kohn is a redirect to this article. For the writer with the former name Martha Cohn see Martha Lasker .

Martha Anna Otillie Brach , maiden name Martha Kohn (born July 24, 1899 in Trier ; † July 26, 1990 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Martha Kohn attended elementary school and secondary school for girls in Trier and was in a boarding school in Metz between 1911 and 1914 . In 1920 she married Joachim Brach. During the First World War , she did postal service and was a volunteer in a photo shop in Trier. After 1933 she was awarded the church teaching license Missio canonica . During the Second World War she worked in a hospital and was a housewife. After the Second World War, in 1946 she became a member of the CDU and a member of the housing and nutrition committee of the Trier city administration.

Martha Brach was a member of the Trier city ​​council from 1948 to 1968 and was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1959 to 1963 . In the state parliament she was a member of the border region committee and petitions committee. She made particular merits in the reconstruction of the Trier-West district after the Second World War and in the restoration of municipal and state structures. The first social station in Rhineland-Palatinate was opened due to their commitment in their own house in Trier. As one of the few women who were politically active at the time, she tried to get political education and specifically female political issues.

In addition to her political activities, she was, among other things, a founding member of the German-French Society Trier, a member of the Trier theater community, the Friends of Rhineland-Palatinate-Burgundy and long-term chairwoman of the Rhineland-Palatinate Women's Union .

She died shortly after her 91st birthday in Trier. She was buried in a family grave in the main cemetery in Trier , in which her husband, who died in 1938, and a son who was fatally wounded by an artillery fragment in 1944 at the age of 16 are buried.

The second oldest of her three daughters was the Trier writer Gisela Brach .

Honors

• 1954: Honorary citizenship of the city of Orléans
• 1964: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
• 1964: Freiherr vom Stein badge
• 1968: Silver plate from the city of Trier for 20 years of council membership
• 1969: Ring of Honor of the City of Trier
• 1969: The coat of arms of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
• 1989: Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
• 2014: Martha-Brach-Strasse in Trier

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Advisory State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , pp. 86–87 .

Web links

• Entry on Martha Brach in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Entry on Martha Brach in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
2. ↑ ^{a b} Meeting template of the Trier City Council on the naming of Martha-Brach-Straße ( ( page no longer available , search in web archives: online as pdf ))
3. ↑ A tour of the main cemetery in Trier ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )