Wilma Conradi

Wilma Conradi (born May 13, 1905 in Hanover , † October 27, 1992 ibid) was a social democratic local politician and contemporary witness of the labor movement .

Life

Bitter Democratic opponents of the SPD , which in the general election in 1912 , the absolute majority for Linden won: students in 1912 as demonstrative advocates of bourgeois parties

Born at the time of the German Empire in Hanover, Wilma Conradi grew up from the age of one in the then independent industrial town of Linden , where her father worked for Hanomag . Wilma Conradi stayed in what would later become Hanover's district for life. In 1912 the family lived near Deisterplatz when Wilma's father ran out of the polling station after the Reichstag election in 1912 with the words “We have won! We have won! The red flag is blowing over linden trees. "

Conradi's parents were members of the SPD, her father read the family regularly from the SPD newspaper Volkswille . When Conradi's father went into the First World War as a soldier in August 1914 , her mother worked as a seamstress to give her children a good education. Wilma Conradi first went to an elementary school , but was then allowed to attend a so-called "Selecta class" due to her good performance. Subsequently, she received a vacancy in the city's commercial school for girls .

Conradi's father was seriously wounded and taken prisoner in France in September 1914 and only returned with a lame leg in February 1920. He couldn't find a job for a year, so Wilma Conradi had to go to the office and work in the evenings as a teenager and the eldest of her siblings, so that her younger brothers could continue to attend school and the family could be looked after. Conradi often changed employers and most recently worked at Kaffee Grote .

Two years after the birth of her daughter, she returned to work at Grote. Due to the high workload , Wilma Conradi never found the time to get involved in the socialist youth workers .

At the age of 21 - when he came of age at the time - Wilma Conradi joined the SPD and left the Church in 1926. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Wilma Conradi participated in secret meetings of their SPD comrades in part.

After the war, Conradi was the women's leader in the Hanoverian SPD. She was persuaded by August Holweg to get involved in the council of the war-torn city. When she moved into the city council on October 13, 1946 - like Elfriede Döler - as one of the first women after the Nazi era and still during the British occupation zone , Wilma Conradi was 41 years old, divorced and a single parent . During the sessions, Conradi's mother took care of her daughter.

The energy supply from the Linden thermal power station was one of Conradi's most urgent commitments

From 1952 to 1965 Conradi worked in the SPD district office for Hermann Schönleiter and Hans Striefler . She was especially in the factory, school and construction committee operates. The works committee dealt with supplying the city with water, electricity and gas, as only a few apartments had functioning pipes in the destroyed city. In the works committee, Conradi was involved in planning and coordinating the repairs. She was particularly committed to the Linden thermal power station . After the Stadtwerke Hannover had been converted into a stock corporation, the works committee was dissolved in 1970.

In 1964 Wilma Conradi was awarded the Ring of Honor of the City Council of Hanover.

“The love for her district Linden” was also evident in Conradi's commitment to the Linden leisure center , which was built in 1961 as the first of its kind in Germany.

The councilwoman, who - most recently as chair of the school committee - campaigned for a modern school system, also took part in the implementation of the IGS Linden , the first integrated comprehensive school in the state capital and one of only seven experimental schools in Lower Saxony in 1971 .

1972 - more than a quarter of a century in voluntary work - Wilma Conradi resigned from her office as city councilor . She died two decades later.

Wilma-Conradi-Weg

After the decision of the Hanoverian council of 1999 to name more streets, paths, squares and bridges after female personalities who have made significant contributions in Hanover, the state capital posthumously honored its long-time councilor by naming the Wilma-Conradi-Weg in 2003 district Linden center .

literature

Susanne Döscher (Red.): Contemporary witnesses of the labor movement . From childhood on ... Ed .: Freizeitheim Linden der Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Hannover: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Der Oberstadtdirektor , 1985, DNB 860208818 , passim .

Remarks

↑ In the 8th Hanover constituency (city and district of Hanover and the city of Linden), 53 percent of the voters voted for the SPD, compare Dieter Brosius : Die Industriestadt. From the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover. Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 346. ( online via Google books)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Jasmin Straßburger, Frank Straßburger: Wilma Conradi on the website of the SPD city association Hanover in the version of March 21, 2016.
↑ Susanne Döscher (Red.): Contemporary witnesses of the labor movement ... (see literature)
^ Klaus Mlynek : Linden. 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 , p. 406ff.
↑ Elke Oberheide: "... and our flag is red." A leisure home in Hanover is researching the history of the working class district of Linden. In: Gerhard Paul , Bernhard Schossig (Ed.): The other story. History from below, securing evidence, ecological history, history workshops. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7663-0946-3 , p. 190. ( Preview via Google books )
^ Peter Schulze : The Hanoverian workers' movement and the 1st World War. Exhibition. German Federation of Trade Unions Lower Saxony-Mitte, 2014.
↑ ^a ^b Project street names: List of street names to be retained. Urban culture of remembrance: "Scientific consideration of eponymous personalities". (PDF), hannover.de, September 29, 2015.
^ Georg Barke : Progress 1960–1964. Hanover - 4 years council work. Published by the state capital Hanover. Steinbock Verlag, Hanover, p. 143.
^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : in this: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . 1961, p. 20.
↑ Bärbel Hilbig: The first comprehensive school started 40 years ago in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . June 6, 2011.
^ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): Hannover Chronik . From the beginning to the present: numbers, data, facts. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1991, p. 267.
↑ The City Day. Volume 25, 1972, p. 448.
↑ Important women in Hanover. A help for future naming of streets, paths, squares and bridges after female personalities. Red. 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
^ Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New episode Volume 57/58, 2003/2004, p. 284.

personal data
SURNAME	Conradi, Wilma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German local politician, social democrat and contemporary witness of the labor movement
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	October 27, 1992
Place of death	Hanover

[5] In the 8th Hanover constituency (city and district of Hanover and the city of Linden), 53 percent of the voters voted for the SPD, compare Dieter Brosius : Die Industriestadt. From the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover. Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 346. ( online via Google books)

[SPD-Stadtverband_Hannover-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Jasmin Straßburger, Frank Straßburger: Wilma Conradi on the website of the SPD city association Hanover in the version of March 21, 2016.

[2] Susanne Döscher (Red.): Contemporary witnesses of the labor movement ... (see literature)

[3] Klaus Mlynek : Linden. 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 , p. 406ff.

[4] Elke Oberheide: "... and our flag is red." A leisure home in Hanover is researching the history of the working class district of Linden. In: Gerhard Paul , Bernhard Schossig (Ed.): The other story. History from below, securing evidence, ecological history, history workshops. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7663-0946-3 , p. 190. ( Preview via Google books )

[6] Peter Schulze : The Hanoverian workers' movement and the 1st World War. Exhibition. German Federation of Trade Unions Lower Saxony-Mitte, 2014.

[ProStr-7] Project street names: List of street names to be retained. Urban culture of remembrance: "Scientific consideration of eponymous personalities". (PDF), hannover.de, September 29, 2015.

[8] Georg Barke : Progress 1960–1964. Hanover - 4 years council work. Published by the state capital Hanover. Steinbock Verlag, Hanover, p. 143.

[9] Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : in this: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . 1961, p. 20.

[10] Bärbel Hilbig: The first comprehensive school started 40 years ago in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . June 6, 2011.

[11] Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): Hannover Chronik . From the beginning to the present: numbers, data, facts. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1991, p. 267.

[12] The City Day. Volume 25, 1972, p. 448.

[13] Important women in Hanover. A help for future naming of streets, paths, squares and bridges after female personalities. Red. 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

[14] Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New episode Volume 57/58, 2003/2004, p. 284.