Paula Henningsen

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Paula Klara Friedrike Henningsen , née Kuntzmann, (born December 30, 1881 in Hanover , † April 5, 1969 in Maschen ) was a German politician and member of the Hamburg parliament .

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Paula Henningsen was the daughter of a customs officer and a master tailor. She lived with an aunt for the first four years of her life. Her mother died in 1885. She then lived with her father and his new wife and four siblings who came from the father's second marriage. In 1888 the family went to Hamburg . Paula Henningsen attended an elementary school there and completed the teachers' seminar . After graduating in 1901, she taught at an elementary school. In 1904 she married Nicolaus Henningsen, who was also a teacher and writer. Paula Henningsen stopped working after the marriage and had a daughter in 1904 and 1906 and a son in 1917.

Paula Henningsen joined the SPD during the First World War and worked as a speaker for the party. She dealt in particular with issues relating to women's policy in health and education. Later she was interested in issues relating to birth control, contraception and abortion . She was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1921 to 1933. From 1927 to 1933 she took over the administration. During the time of parliament she was active in the health authority and the vocational school authority. Together with Adele Reiche and the doctor Rudolf Elkan, she founded a Hamburg branch of the Reich Association for Birth Control and Sexual Hygiene in 1930, which was soon referred to as Paula Henningsen's dirty association . The local group positioned itself against Paragraph 218 . Henningsen was chairman of the association from its foundation until it was banned by the National Socialists in 1933. She was so brave for her time that she practically demonstrated the use of pessaries on her own body. After the National Socialists had banned the association, Paula Henningsen was no longer politically active even after the end of the Second World War .

Paula Henningsen died in Maschen in April 1969.

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SURNAME Henningsen, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henningsen, Paula Klara Friederike; Kuntzmann, Paula Klara Friederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and member of the Hamburg Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1969
Place of death Meshes