Viktoria Saffe

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Viktoria Saffe (née Müller ; born August 3, 1914 in Hanover ; † April 21, 1999 there ) was a German social politician who had made a lasting name for herself through her multiple voluntary work .

Life

Building SoVD in Herschel Street in Hanover, one of the haunts of Victoria Saffe;
here in 2015 in the colors of the tricolor as a show of solidarity after the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris

Born at the time of the German Empire in the first days of World War I , Viktoria Müller lived through the time of the Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism , in which tens of thousands of people died and hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless , not only because of the air raids on Hanover almost half destroyed capital of the state to be founded Lower Saxony . Even at the time of the British occupation zone joined Viktoria Saffe 1947 the Reich Federation of Body-disabled , Social retirees and survivors at, later Sozialverband Germany (SoVD). In her hometown she was one of the co-founders of the Hanover local group , was elected secretary and finally chairwoman .

For more than half a century Viktoria Saffe consistently stood up for socially disadvantaged people and headed the SoVD local association in Kirchrode until her death. For 41 years she was active in the district executive committee of Hanover City, for 13 years in the state executive committee. In her district of Kirchrode , she also campaigned for barrier-free telephone booths and lowered sidewalks for wheelchair users and people with walking aids or walkers .

In 1986, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker awarded Viktoria Saffe the Federal Cross of Merit, and in 1997 she was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. The SoVD finally honored Saffe for 50 years of voluntary work.

Viktoria Saffe, buried in the Kirchrode district cemetery , was the mother of SoVD federal treasurer Ingeborg Saffe .

Viktoria-Saffe-Weg

In 2001, just over a year after the decision of the Hanoverian council of 1999 to name more streets, paths, squares and bridges after female personalities who have achieved significant things in Hanover, a path in Kirchrode was named Viktoria-Saffe-Weg , right next to it the Kirchrode district cemetery, where Saffe was buried. In addition, in April 2005, a separate legend table with biographical information on Viktoria Saffe was inaugurated on the street sign.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 57/58, 2003/2004, pp. 277–286; here: p. 284
  2. ^ A b c d e SD: Street sign for SoVD member / "Viktoria Saffe was an original". In: SoVD-Zeitung , number 6, June 2006, p. 12; downloadable as a PDF document
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.
  4. ↑ Important women in Hanover. Help for future naming of streets, paths, squares and bridges according to female personalities , Ed. Christine Kannenberg and Sabine Poppe, ed. from the City of Hanover, Department for Women and Equal Opportunities, Department of Planning and Urban Development, as of June 2013, Hanover undated, p. 67; online as a PDF document
personal data
SURNAME Saffe, Victoria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Viktoria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1999
Place of death Hanover