Milly Schmidt

Milly Rose Wilhelmine Julie Schmidt ; also Milli Schmidt , b. Milly Bauch (born May 16, 1904 in Berlin , † April 14, 1989 in Jena ) was a German functionary of the GDR block party LDPD . She was a member of the Thuringian state parliament , the German People's Council and the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Schmidt was born in 1904 in Berlin as the daughter of a cloth manufacturer. Between 1910 and 1920 she attended a lyceum and then a chemistry school. At the same time, she was trained as a technical assistant in a laboratory. From 1921 to 1922 Schmidt worked as a medical-technical assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin . She then moved to Osram AG , where she worked in the local test laboratory until 1924. From 1925 to 1933 Schmidt then worked in the III. Medical clinic under Professor Bruno Mendel in the field of cancer research. In 1934, she first passed the university entrance qualification examination, but then stayed at home as a housewife on December 22, 1934 after marrying Kurt Schmidt, who was 18 years older than Gera. In 1939 the couple moved to Schleiz , where Schmidt saw the end of the war in 1945.

After the end of the war, Schmidt began to get involved in the LDP, which was founded in summer 1945 and which she joined in December 1945. She was one of the co-founders of the party in Schleiz and was deputy LDP district chairman in the Schleiz district from 1945 to 1948. In 1946 she was appointed deputy mayor of Schleiz. In this office she worked until 1950. For the first state elections in Thuringia after the war in October 1946, the LPD appointed Schmidt as a member of parliament. After the LDP was the second strongest party to win 28 seats, Schmidt moved into the state parliament as a member, of which she remained until the end of the legislative period. In March 1948 she delegated the LDP to the 2nd German People's Congress , at which Milly Schmidt was elected to the 1st German People's Council. As a result, she was also a member of the 2nd German People's Council, the Provisional People's Chamber and from 1950 to 1954 a member of the People's Chamber. Within the party, she headed the Schleiz LDP district association as chairwoman from 1948 to 1954 and remained politically connected to the former LDP state chairman Karl Hamann even after his arrest .

In 1951, Schmidt was initially supposed to take up a distance learning course at the Administration Academy in Forst Zinna , but then, at the age of almost 50, decided to take a distance learning course in chemistry at the TH Dresden , which she completed in 1954. At the same time, she was admitted to the Schleizer Oberschule as a candidate for teaching chemistry in 1953. After working as a teacher from 1955, she continued teaching until 1957. In 1959 she moved to Jena with her husband, who died in 1977 at the age of 91, where she died in 1989 at the age of 84.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952 . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , p. 588.