Minna Sattler

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Minna Sattler (born November 6, 1891 in Friedland , East Prussia ; died May 30, 1974 in Dortmund ) was a German social worker and SPD politician .

Life

Minna Sattler came to the Ruhr area at the age of fourteen , where she completed a commercial apprenticeship. She joined the SPD in 1908 and became a full-time cashier in the SPD district of Western Westphalia in 1912.

After the end of the First World War , Sattler co-founded the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) in Dortmund. In 1924 she attended a six-month women's course that was held at the Tinz folk high school . In 1925 and 1931, Sattler was a delegate of the SPD district at the Heidelberg party congress and the party congress in Leipzig and also a delegate to the women's conferences. From June 1928 to April 1933, Sattler was a member of the Dortmund city council.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , she had to go into hiding in May 1933. When she returned to Dortmund in 1934, she was briefly imprisoned. After that, she made her way as a grocery retailer. In Dortmund she belonged to the resistance group around Franz Klupsch . At the beginning of 1945 she was arrested again by the Gestapo and with luck escaped a murder.

From August 1945 she was again the main cashier in the SPD district and from 1946 to 1966 she worked as a full-time district manager of the AWO in Dortmund, where she also chaired. From 1946 to 1960 she was a member of the main board of the AWO.

The Minna-Sattler senior center in the Dortmund district of Brüninghausen and the Minna-Sattler-Strasse in Brackel are named after her.

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SURNAME Sattler, Minna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social worker and SPD politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedland , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1974
Place of death Dortmund