Maria Eckertz
German activist and politician (1899–1969)
Maria Eckertz (née Flerlage; 21 December 1899 – 19 December 1969) was a German activist and politician (KPD). She took part in anti-Nazi resistance and narrowly avoided death in Ravensbrück concentration camp.
She briefly sat as a member of the Prussian regional parliament ("Landtag") in 1932/33 and, again briefly, in 1946, as a Cologne city councillor.
Life
Maria Flerlage was born in Hamburg. Her father, Theodor Flerlage, was chief secretary of the post office's telegraphy department. Maria attended school at a Catholic lyceum for seven years and then took a job with the Hamburg telephone company, where she worked for two years. In 1921 she married the middle school teacher Theodor Eckertz (1896 – 1984), which involved relocating to Cologne.
In 1927, Maria Eckartz joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). She was active in the women's section of the Cologne region party, and was also elected on to the regional executive of Red Aid ("Rote Hilfe"), a workers' welfare organisation with close links to the party.
Between 1932 and March 1933, she sat as a KPD member of the Prussian regional parliament ("Landtag"), representing the Cologne-Aachen electoral district.
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