Susanne Suhr

Susanne Suhr , née Pawel (born November 11, 1893 in Lissa near Breslau , † January 12, 1989 in Berlin ), was a German politician ( SPD ).

Susanne Pawel attended a secondary school for girls and from 1917 studied both history and German at the universities of Munich and Leipzig . In 1921 she passed the exam as a librarian , in the same year she married the later Governing Mayor of Berlin Otto Suhr (1894–1957). In 1922 she joined the SPD. She worked as a writer and journalist until the end of World War II .

Grave of the Suhr couple at the Zehlendorf forest cemetery

From 1946 to 1950, Suhr was an editor at the Berlin Telegraf . In the Berlin election in 1948 , she was elected to the district assembly in the Wilmersdorf district. After the death of her husband, she was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in the 1958 election and was a member of parliament until 1963.

literature

• 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. 259-260 (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. 240.

Web links

• Susanne Suhr: A woman of importance and the ideal husband , in: Mosaik (March issue 1948), Mosaik-Verlag, Berlin 1948, p. 18/19. online (PDF file p. 20/21; accessed on September 14, 2018)