Mina Amann

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Mina Amann (born December 31, 1893 in Hamburg-Bergedorf ; † September 13, 1966 in Hamburg ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( CDU ).

Life

Mina Amann grew up in a Protestant working class. Her father was a brewer . She attended elementary school and then learned to be a dressmaker . She joined the home workers' union at an early age and in 1919 switched to the association of Christian workers in the clothing industry , where she became district manager. In 1925 she became the head of the women's secretariat in Berlin and editor-in-chief of the union newspaper Frauenblatt of the Christian unions . She was a member of the Reich Economic Council and chairwoman of the Reich Association of Female Domestic Workers .

After the unions were broken up, Mina Amann was active in the resistance against National Socialism . She was involved as a co-owner in Albert Voss's cigar and tobacco trade in Berlin-Mitte , which was also used to smuggle aid supplies and exchange information. She worked with Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen , among others . The shop, which she ran largely independently, subsequently developed into a union meeting place, which was also used to contact union members who had gone underground. After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , she gave help for trade unionists who had known about the plans to escape. Among other things, she hid Jakob Kaiser in the basement of the shop and initially provided him with an apartment in Berlin-Tempelhof and supported him with groceries when he found accommodation in Babelsberg .

After the Second World War , Amann took part in the rebuilding of the trade unions. She was a member of the 30-member founding board of the Free German Trade Union Federation . She was also a co-founder of the CDU in Berlin and was a member of the state executive. From 1948 to 1960 she was the managing director of the Adam-Stegerwald-Haus of the social committee of the CDU in Koenigswinter , she belonged to the federal executive committee of the CDU social committee until her death on September 13, 1966.

Honors

literature

  • Julia Hörath and Siegfried Mielke : Amann, Mina (1893–1966): Silent helper in the resistance . In: Siegfried Mielke (ed.): Trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution, resistance, emigration . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-914-1 , p. 33-49 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julia Hörath and Siegfried Melke: Amann, Mina (1893–1966): Silent Helper in Resistance . In: Siegfried Milke (Ed.): Trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution, resistance, emigration . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-914-1 , p. 33-49 .
  2. ^ Union information. (PDF; 13 kB) Friedrich Ebert Foundation , accessed on March 29, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Amann, Mina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Bergedorf
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1966
Place of death Hamburg