Minna Todenhagen

Minna Todenhagen (born August 14, 1880 in Greifswald , † November 16, 1950 in Berlin ) was a German social politician and co-founder of the workers' welfare organization .

Life

Berlin memorial plaque in Berlin-Zehlendorf (patrons James Simon (1851–1932) and Franz von Mendelssohn (1865–1935))

Minna Todenhagen came from a social-democratic family. She came to Berlin at the age of 20, attended business school and then worked as a commercial clerk and later as an office manager. From 1912 she was a member of the SPD . In 1919 she was elected as a community representative in Treptow and after the formation of Greater Berlin in 1920 as a district councilor. From 1925 to 1932 she was a member of the Berlin city council . She was involved here for youth and child welfare as well as welfare and social policy . She was instrumental in building up the welfare organizations in Berlin. In 1919 she was one of the co-founders of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt, on whose main board she was active and built up the training of the organization's helpers.

In the organ of the social democratic women's movement " Equality ", she advocated the separation of church and state and the equal participation of women in social life in several articles. Between 1929 and 1933 she worked as an educational department head in the State Welfare and Youth Welfare Office of the City of Berlin. From 1930 until her release at the end of 1933, she was in charge of the “House of Child Protection” (established by the “ Association for the Protection of Children from Abuse and Abuse ”) in Claszeile 57 in Berlin-Zehlendorf and then again from 1945 to 1949.

After the " seizure of power " by the NSDAP she was dismissed and was under police supervision until 1934. After the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , she was arrested for a few weeks during the Gewitter campaign . After the war she was an assessor in the state executive committee of the workers' welfare. She was elected to the Berlin City Council in 1946 as a member of the SPD , of which she was a member until 1948.

Honors

• Berlin memorial plaque in Claszeile 57 in Berlin-Zehlendorf (2007)
• Naming of a street and a bridge in Berlin-Niederschöneweide and Oberschöneweide

Web links

Commons : Minna Todenhagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

• Renate Bäuerlein, Angelika Lübcke, Christina Rhein, Waltraud Schade: women's mosaic. Biographies of women from the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick . trafo-Verlag , Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-89626-343-9 , pp. 83-88.
• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 264 (331 pages).
• Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0240-2 , p. 242 f.
• Active Museum Association: In Front of the Door - Berlin City Councilors and Magistrate Members Persecuted During National Socialism 1933–1945 , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , p. 359.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorial plaque in Claszeile 57 in Berlin-Zehlendorf