Margot Kalinke

Margot Kalinke ( born April 23, 1909 in Bart Schin at Bromberg, † November 25, 1981 in Munich) was a German politician (DP, later CDU).

Life and career

After high primary maturity at the German School in Bromberg Margot Kalinke was the Protestant faith was in 1925 expelled from Poland. She attended the commercial college and worked in the field of social security since 1929. From 1937 to 1952, she was managing director of a district employee health insurance in Hanover. It belonged in 1946 to the co-founders of the Association of Female employee ( VWA), in its precursor organization, the association of female commercial clerks, they had already been in an honorary capacity before 1933. From 1949 until her death she was Chair of the VWA. 1953 to 1974 she was director of social policy offices of private health insurance. It belonged temporarily to the board of the Federal Insurance Institute for Salaried Employees and was in the 1950 Member of the Advisory Board for the reorganization of social services to the Federal Minister of Labour.

Policy

Until 1945 Margot Kalinke was in the Nazi women's organization.

In 1946, she joined the German Party and belonged from 1946 to 1949 the Lower Saxony state parliament in. 1947/48 she was a member of the Zonal Advisory Council. From 1949 to 1953, of 3 June 1955, when they nachrückte for Heinrich Hellwege until 1972 she was a member of the German Bundestag, while in 1957 the constituency of Celle due to an election agreement, the DP with the CDU won directly and otherwise on the Lower Saxony state list first the DP, the CDU came into Parliament in 1961. Together with Ernst Farke she represented at the time of their membership in the DP whose workers wing in Parliament. From September 1955 to 1957 she was deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for questions of public welfare. 1957 until her exit party on July 1, 1960, she was deputy leader of the DP. On September 20, 1960, she left the DP and joined the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. 1969 to 1971 she was chairwoman of the Women's Union in Lower Saxony.

Equality policy

Margot Kalinke was - unlike the majority and the women in their party - a vehement opponent of the so-called random Entscheides in marriage, with the man in disputes in all matters relating to the spouses would be able to enforce his view. Together with Elisabeth Schwarz main (CDU), she agreed before the Judicial Committee of the Bundestag for the amendment of the FDP and caused quite a defeat for the governing parties CDU / CSU, GB / BHE and DP. The "law on equality between men and women in the field of civil law " was adopted on June 18, 1957 without this discriminatory clause.