Wiltrud Rehlen

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Wiltrud Rehlen (born July 6, 1930 in Regensburg ; † May 8, 1984 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Wiltrud Rehlen

education

Wiltrud Rehlen was one of the few women who studied economics in the 1950s, including at Heidelberg University , Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and Harvard University . She received her doctorate in 1956 in Heidelberg with the thesis The Problem of Sector Business Cycles and Current State Needs as Intervention Tools.

Professional

From 1954 to 1958 the graduate economist worked as an assistant at the Econometric Institute of Heidelberg University. From 1958 to 1960 she was a research assistant at the research advisory board for questions relating to the reunification of Germany in Bonn. She then worked from 1960 to 1962 as an assistant at the Federal Ministry of Finance . Then she worked for two years at the large purchasing company of German consumer cooperatives in Hamburg. Subsequently, Rehlen became a consultant in the Office for Economic Policy of the Authority for Economics and Transport of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, most recently with the rank of senior government councilor.

politics

In 1963 Rehlen joined the SPD and ran unsuccessfully for the German Bundestag on the SPD's Hamburg state list in 1965 . In 1972 she became chairwoman of the working group of social democratic women and (until 1980) chairwoman of the Hamburg women's council , the non-partisan association of Hamburg women's associations. For the association she was appointed to the board of directors of the NDR . In 1972 she ran again for the Bundestag and was only given one of the lower places in the list. On November 14, 1974, she replaced Werner Staak in the Bundestag and stayed there until the end of the 1976 electoral term. She worked as a full member of the Legal Committee and as a deputy in the Transport Committee and for Post and Telecommunications .

From 1978 until her death in 1984, Wiltrud Rehlen headed the State Center for Civic Education Hamburg . This made her the first woman to head one of these regional headquarters in Germany.

Wiltrud Rehlen was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rahlstedt , the grave has already been abandoned.

literature

  • Do you wear a bra? When women run for the Bundestag In: Die ZEIT No. 34 of August 13, 1976
  • Helga Kutz Bauer: Wiltrud Rehlen in the database for women's biographies of the Hamburg State Center for Civic Education
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 .

Web links

Commons : Wiltrud Rehlen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Wiltrud Rehlen at garten-der-frauen.de