Olga Sippl

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Olga Sippl (née Stohwasser ; born September 19, 1920 in Altrohlau , Czechoslovakia ) is a Sudeten German social democrat and one of the founding members of the Seliger community .

Live and act

Coming from a social democratic family in Altrohlau, she came into contact with the various organizations of the Sudeten German labor movement at an early age . Already at the age of 5 she went to the children's gymnastics of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association . She later became a member of the Red Falcons and the Socialist Youth .

After graduating from school, she took a job in the Karlovy Vary Urania . In 1936 she became a member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic . From 1938 she worked for the Social Insurance Institution in Prague . Since she was excluded from emigration with her parents to England at the last minute because of her date of birth, she decided on March 8, 1939, shortly before the occupation of Prague by the German Wehrmacht , to return to Altrohlau with her boyfriend and later husband Ernst. where she worked in the agricultural construction site. Her son Herbert († 1984) was born at the end of December 1943. Her husband died in Courland in March 1945 .

After the end of the war, she took over office work in the Karlovy Vary Antifa office, which was supposed to compile lists of reliable social democrats and communists. On November 20, 1946, she left Karlovy Vary on the last Antifa transport and came with her son to the Furth im Wald border transit camp . After another stay in Königsdorf , where she was involved in the founding of a local SPD association in March 1948, and a short stay with her parents in Birmingham , England , she became an employee of the Bavarian SPD in Munich on July 1, 1949 .

In 1951, along with Richard Reitzner , Alois Ullmann and Emil Werner , she signed the founding deed of the Seliger community. In the following years she was a member of the editorial team of the Die Brücke publishing house , which published the newsletter of the Seliger community and other publications.

Already before, but especially after the Velvet Revolution , she traveled several times to Czechoslovakia or to the Czech Republic in her old homeland in order to promote understanding between Czechs and Germans. In numerous contributions she also described the work of the Sudeten German social democracy. In 2002 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her efforts to achieve reconciliation between Germans and Czechs and for her commitment to the Seliger community . In 2016 she received the Karel Kramář Medal from the Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka .

Honors

Works

  • Review of 50 years of the Seliger community , Munich 2001.
  • Loyalty community of Sudeten German Social Democrats in Sweden | in the mirror of the Sudeten yearbook of the Seliger community , Munich 2008.
  • Last attempt at a German-Czech balance 50 years ago Munich 1987.
  • A son of the people. Ernst Paul on his 100th birthday; a picture of life according to archival documents die Brücke, Munich 1997.

literature

  • Alena Wagnerová: Heroes of Hope. The other Germans from the Sudetes 1935-1989 aufbau, Berlin 2008 year, ISBN 978-3-351-02657-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Radio Prague - Prime Minister Sobotka honors Sudeten German Social Democrat Olga Sippl. In: www.radio.cz. Retrieved March 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Sippl, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stohwasser, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German social democrat
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Altrohlau