Ute Hochgrebe

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Ute Hochgrebe

Ute Hochgrebe (* July 8, 1931 in Berlin ; † September 8, 2004 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a local politician of the SPD in Frankfurt am Main, who from 1977 to 2004 as a city councilor and in the city council of Frankfurt mainly responsible for social, cultural and Helped shape integration policy and campaigned for the interests and safety of women. In 2002 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her extensive voluntary work and her services to politics and society . The FAZ described them as “social democratic veterans”.

Life

Ute Hochgrebe was born on July 8, 1931 in Berlin. Her father died in World War II. Contact with the mother broke off after she fled from the Kinderland deportation from Silesia to Munich . After a station in Marburg (1948–1956), where she attended a private business school and worked in the university library, she came to Cologne . There she worked as a board secretary at Cologne-Wahn Airport and married the journalist Volker Hochgrebe, with whom she had two children. In 1965 the family moved to the north end of Frankfurt . There she was actively involved in the local politics of the SPD until she suddenly died on September 8, 2004.

politics

She came to local politics through her involvement in the parents' council of the Schwarzburg- und Musterschule . She had been active for the SPD since 1968, which she had already joined in 1959. From 1972 to 1977 she was the first SPD parliamentary group leader in the Nordend local advisory board. In her long service as a city councilor (1977–1993, 1997–2004) and as an honorary city councilor (1993–1997), she was chairwoman of the women's, health and elders committee, deputy chairman of the planning and election preparation committee and member of the environmental protection committee Urban green as well as in the social committee.

Above all, she fought for the preservation of the women's committee, which campaigned for the safety of women in the area of ​​local public transport. Some measures were the introduction of a taxi from the trams, the establishment of a bus stop between the stops and the reinforcement of the security personnel in the B-level of the Frankfurt main station . From 1979 to 1995 she was a member and deputy chairwoman of the sub-district executive committee of the SPD Frankfurt and in this context she campaigned for the interests of foreigners and migrants.

On April 13, 1989, she was elected head of the city council as the second woman after Frolinde Balser . She resigned on October 11, 1989 after she was brought into contact with the district association's controversial real estate business as chairwoman of the district association of Hessen-Süd (1986–1989) and the district association (1981–1989) of the workers' welfare organization. She justified her resignation with the loss of confidence from parliament and the public. In the SPD chronicle 50 years of politics for Frankfurt am Main - SPD. 1946–1996 , however, “personal reasons” are given for her resignation. After her work as a city councilor, she was elected deputy head of the city council in 1997. During her active time as a local politician, she was a member of several supervisory boards, including Saalbau GmbH , Alte Oper Frankfurt GmbH and Nassauische Heimstätte .

Her estate is in the archive of the Institute for City History and in the archive of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frankfurt and Frankfurter: Petra Roth , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 28, 2004
  2. ↑ Patricia Andreae: Phase of resignation . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 20, 1992.
  3. ↑ güm .: Ute Hochgrebe: “I'm stepping back” . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 12, 1989.
  4. ^ Elke Jaeger: 50 years of politics for Frankfurt am Main - SPD. 1946-1996 . 2nd Edition. SPD, Frankfurt a. M. 1996, p. 37f.
personal data
SURNAME Hochgrebe, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2004
Place of death Frankfurt am Main