Nora Platiel

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Nora Platiel (born January 14, 1896 in Bochum , † September 6, 1979 in Kassel ; born Eleonore Block , also Nora Block and Nora Platiel-Block ) pseudonym Nora Kolb , was a social democratic politician, lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Eleonore Block was born in Bochum as the eighth of ten children of the Jewish couple Therese and Bendix Block, owners of a clothing store for miners. After the early death of her father, she had to temporarily interrupt her schooling and worked among other things as a secretary for Helene Stöcker and the German Association for Maternity Protection and Sexual Reform . After graduating from high school, Nora Platiel joined the SPD in 1922 and a few years later joined the International Socialist Fighting League ( ISK). She studied law , philosophy and economics in Frankfurt / Main and Göttingen , and completed her studies with a doctorate . She then completed her legal clerkship in Kassel and from 1931 worked as a lawyer in Bochum, where she also represented opponents of the NSDAP and was active for the Red Aid .

Grave of Nora Platiel in the main cemetery in Kassel

After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, she fled to France, where she was active in the ISK group in Paris and in refugee aid organizations. a. worked for the exile magazine Das Neue Tage-Buch . After the beginning of the Second World War temporarily imprisoned in Camp de Gurs , she fled from there to Montauban , where she lived in illegality and met her future husband Hermann Platiel; from there she fled to Switzerland in 1942, where she was interned again until 1943. In October 1944 her brother Max Block was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the years that followed, until her return in 1949, she worked in Switzerland on a voluntary basis and from 1946 full-time for the Swiss workers' aid organization.

In 1949, Nora Platiel settled in Kassel, where she rejoined the SPD and worked as a district judge.In 1951 she became the first district court director in Hesse at the higher regional court in Frankfurt . In the state elections in 1954 , the specialist in legal and cultural policy was elected for the first time in the Hessian state parliament, to which she belonged until 1966, from 1960 to 1966 as deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group. When she was elected to the office of President of the State Parliament in 1962, she lost one vote to her competitor Franz Fuchs , who also belonged to the SPD. From 1966 to 1968 she was a member of the Hessian State Court . In addition, she was active in the ÖTV and in the Kasseler Kunstverein , which she headed from 1961 to 1969.

Honors

Platiel is the recipient of the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1969 she was awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal , the highest award in the State of Hesse. A street on the premises of the University of Kassel is named after her. Since 2007 there has also been a street named after her in the municipality of Lohfelden near Kassel. In 2017 her grave was honored as an honorary grave in the main cemetery in Kassel .

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  1. ↑ HNA: City honors Kassel politicians, persecuted people and poets with graves of honor , accessed March 27, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Platiel, Nora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Block, Eleonore (maiden name); Block, Nora; Platiel Block, Nora; Kolb, Nora (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL, lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1979
Place of death kassel