Margot Kalinke
Margot Kalinke | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
In office 7 September 1949 – 22 September 1972 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 23 April 1909 |
Died | 25 November 1981 Munich, West Germany | (aged 72)
Political party | CDU |
Margot Kalinke (23 April 1909 in
Biography
Margot Kalinke was
Politics
From 1946 to 1949, Kalinke was a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. In 1947 and 1948, she was also a member of the Zonenbeirat ("Area Advisory Board").
From 1949 to 1953, and then from 1955 until 1972, she was a member of the German Bundestag, winning the election in the Celle constituency in 1957. Together with Ernst August Farke she represented the Arbeitnehmerflügel ("Worker's Wing") of the German Party in parliament. From 1955 to 1957 she was deputy chair of the Bundestag Committee for Public Welfare. From 1957 until her exit from the party on 1 June 1960, she was vice chair of the German Party.
She joined the Christian Democratic Union on 20 September 1960, and from 1969 to 1971 she was Landesvorsitzende ("State President") of the women's union in Lower Saxony.
Equal rights
Unlike most women in her party, Margot Kalinke opposed the "Stitch Ruling" (pertaining to the rights of the husband in marital disputes). Together with Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt she orchestrated support for an opposition amendment to her own party's bill. The Gesetz über die Gleichstellung von Mann und Frau auf dem Gebiet des bürgerlichen Rechts ("Law of Equality between Man and Woman in Civil Law") was enacted on 18 June 1957 without the Stitch Clause.
Sources
- This article was translated from the equivalent article in the German Wikipedia on 9 July 2009.
- Vor 50 Jahren ("50 years ago"), Die Zeit, published 9 November 2000, retrieved 22 July 2016.
External links
- Media related to Margot Kalinke at Wikimedia Commons