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Rosa Helfers (born Boye ; born September 30, 1885 in Hamburg-Bergedorf , † March 1, 1965 in Hameln ) was a German politician ( SPD ), member of the Prussian state parliament and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

After completing elementary school in 1900, Helfers worked as a kindergarten teacher from 1900 to 1902. On March 14, 1902, she married the glassmaker Ludwig Helfers in Hanover (* July 21, 1876 in Westendorf; † November 10, 1950 in Hameln). Around 1907/1908 she joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) under a male pseudonym. From 1911 onwards she was active in trade union youth work and the welfare of prisoners in Hameln, and in 1918 she was the only woman to become a member of the workers 'and soldiers' council . From 1919 to 1928 she was a city ​​councilor in the city of Hameln , she was one of the co-founders of the local workers' welfare and the SPD women's group, was active in the Friends of Nature and in the Central Association of Proletarian Freethinkers . From 1921 to 1933 she was a member of the Prussian state parliament , the focus of her work was social and youth welfare.

In addition to her political activities, she trained as a prison guard and from 1928 worked as a superior in the Moabit remand prison . From 1929 to 1933 she was director of the women's prison in Berlin on Barnimstrasse. In 1933 she was dismissed because of her membership in the SPD. From 1935 onwards she was observed by the Gestapo , arrested as part of the grating action and held for several months in the Buchholz labor education camp around 1944/1945 , where she contracted a kidney disease.

After the end of the Second World War , she helped rebuild the SPD and the workers' welfare in Hameln and in December 1945 became a member of the Hamelin City Council. From August 23, 1946 to October 29, 1946, Rosa Helfers was a member of the Appointed Hanover State Parliament and chairwoman of the Welfare Committee, from December 9, 1946 to March 28, 1947 a member of the appointed Lower Saxony State Parliament , and from April 20, 1947 to April 30, 1951 Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament (1st electoral period) . In 1952, she resigned from all political offices for health reasons.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 151.
• Bernhard Gelderblom : Hamelin in the Nazi era. The annihilation of the labor movement. Archived from the original on August 28, 2009 ; Retrieved January 5, 2013 . 
• Board of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Schüren, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , p. 137.
• Christl Wickert : Our chosen ones. Social Democratic women in the German Reichstag and in the Prussian Landtag, 1919–1933. Volume 2. Sovec, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-923147-24-4 (At the same time: Göttingen, University, dissertation, 1986: SPD and women's emancipation in the Weimar Republic. ).
• Helga Altkrüger-Roller: Courageous women from Hameln & the surrounding area. Hameln 2012, pp. 52-61, ISBN 978-3-939492-39-9