Wilma Landwehr

Wilma Landwehr (born January 5, 1913 in Bremen ; † August 8, 1981 there ) was a Bremen politician (KPD / SPD) and member of the parliament.

biography

Landwehr comes from a working class family in Bremen - Walle . She attended the reform school on Schleswiger Strasse and the home economics vocational school. At the age of 15 she was a factory worker until 1932 and was a union member. In 1928 she became a member of the Communist Youth Association and later the KPD . In 1930 she married the later party secretary Heinrich Landwehr; both moved to Breslau in 1932. In 1933 the couple emigrated to Moscow . Around 1937 she was "banished" to Rostov-on-Don , where she worked as an industrial worker. After the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, the two Landwehrs were expelled to Germany in the context of the persecution of people of German origin by the Soviet Union, despite their communist biography . This is how they experienced the tragedy of the communists and social democrats transferred from the Soviet Union to the National Socialists, that is to say simply "betrayed". In 1939, shortly after arriving in Germany, their young daughter died. After her imprisonment in Gestapo custody, she worked at the Atlas Works during World War II , including as an interpreter for Russian slave laborers .

After the war, the Landwehr joined the SPD . Wilma Landwehr was active in various party functions, including as a member of the sub-district executive committee of Bremen and in the Ostertor she led the women's group. From 1949 she was employed in the public service of the administration in Bremen. In 1963, after the death of Anna Stiegler , she became chairwoman of the Working Groups of Social Democratic Women (ASF) in the SPD Bremen .

From 1950 to 1971 Landwehr was a member of the Bremen citizenship for 21 years and was active in various committees and deputations . She became known in Bremen as the spokesperson for the Education Deputation. She fought to keep the six-year elementary school introduced in 1949; In 1955, however, the four-year elementary school was also introduced in Bremen. She was represented in the committee of inquiry into the building land affair and in the parliamentary committee for the drafting of a university law. When her husband, who was secretary of the SPD national organization for many years, needed care, she left parliament.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Renate Meyer-Braun: Landwehr, Wilma, b. Mahlstedt . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .