Mathilde Drees

Mathilde Drees (born January 25, 1862 in Oldenburg , † June 18, 1938 in Hanover ) was a German educator and politician ( DDP ).

Life

Mathilde Drees was born as the daughter of a school principal. She attended the teachers' seminar in Callnberg and worked as a freelance teacher from 1882 to 1887. From 1888 she worked at a middle school in Oldenburg. She passed the examination as a gymnastics teacher in Berlin in 1891 and took senior teacher courses in German and French at the Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Lyzeum in Berlin from 1897 to 1899 . From 1900 until her retirement in 1927, she worked as a senior teacher at the Lyceum II (Schiller School) in Hanover , and from 1926 as deputy director. After her retirement she taught part-time at the technical college for women's professions until 1931.

From 1919 to 1921 she was deputy chairwoman of the General German Teachers' Association. In addition, she acted from 1918 to 1933 as chairwoman of the Women's City Association in Hanover.

Drees was a member of the German Democratic Party during the Weimar Republic . She was a city councilor in Hanover from 1919 to 1924 and a member of the Hanover Provincial Parliament from 1921 to 1925 . From January 29, 1924, when she replaced the resigned MP Heinz Julius Mackenthun , until the end of the legislative period in December 1924, she was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 89.
• Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographical portraits , Hannover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , p. 230
• Karin Ehrich: Strengthening the influence of women in community life. The mayor women of Hanover 1919–1933. In: Karin Ehrich, Christiane Schröder (eds.): Nobles, workers and ... - Women's life in the city and region of Hanover. Bielefeld 1999, pp. 181-210. ISBN 3-89534-292-0 .
• Klaus Mlynek : Drees, Mathilde. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 99; online through google books
• Klaus Mlynek: Drees, Mathilde. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 139.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joachim Stang: The German Democratic Party in Prussia 1918-1933. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994. p. 183.