Mathilde Gantenberg

Mathilde Gantenberg (* 25. December 1889 in Bochum ; † 29. October 1975 in Trier ) was a German politician of the CDU .

Life and work

Mathilde Gantenberg, who was of the Roman Catholic faith, studied philology and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1920 to 1927 she was a study assistant in Koblenz . After half a year as a teacher at the Stiftsgymnasium Xanten , she worked as a senior teacher in Bad Kreuznach from the end of 1927 . In 1933 she was dismissed for political reasons and initially hired herself as a farmer in the Eifel. In 1940 she became a bookseller in Trier.

After the Second World War, Ms. Gantenberg returned to school in 1945 as Head of Studies in Trier.

Political party

Mathilde Gantenberg was a member of the ZENTRUM from 1928 to 1933 . In 1945 she participated in the founding of the Christian Democratic Party , later the Rhineland-Palatinate regional association of the CDU, in Trier.

MPs

Gantenberg was a member of Trier's city council from 1946 to 1948. In 1946/47 she was a member of the Advisory State Assembly and thereafter until her resignation on October 1, 1957, a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament . Amely Goebel was the successor for the legislative period . She belonged to the German Bundestag from October 8, 1956, when she replaced the resigned MP Eduard Orth , until 1961.

Public offices

From 1948 to 1951 Mathilde Gantenberg was State Secretary in the Ministry for Education and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . This made her the first woman to hold the rank of State Secretary in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Honors

• 1959: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1961: Leibniz Medal of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
• 1964: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• Literature by and about Mathilde Gantenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Mathilde Gantenberg in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Monika Storm: Women from the very beginning - Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament politicians 1946–1955 in: Blätter zum Landtag 3 (2007). Edited by the State Center for Political Education Rhineland-Palatinate.
• CV at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• Dr. Mathilde Gantenberg, 1st State Secretary in Rhineland-Palatinate . in: Land und Menschen (2015). Ed .: State Office for Political Education, Rhineland-Palatinate

literature

• Andreas Grau: Mathilde Gantenberg (1889–1975). In: Günter Buch , Brigitte Kaff , Hans-Otto Kleinmann : Christian Democrats against Hitler. 2004, ISBN 3-451-20805-9 , pp. 205-208.
• Birgit Sack: Fight for female leadership: The Gantenberg case . In: Between religious ties and modern society: Catholic women's movement and political culture in the Weimar Republic (1918 / 19-1933). Waxmann, Münster et al. 1998, ISBN 3-89325-593-1 , pp. 150–157.
• The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946–2015 . Edited by The President of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 205–207
• Ludger Fittkau / Marie-Christine Werner: The conspirators. The civil resistance behind July 20, 1944 , wbg Theiss, Darmstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-8062-3893-8 .