10 Facts About Luise Albertz

Luise Albertz was a German politician committed, throughout her life, to the Social Democratic Party.

Luise Albertz was a member of the West German Bundestag for two decades, until 1969.

Luise Albertz's father was the SPD activist Hermann Albertz, who later became a member of the Prussian Landtag and whose life would end in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Luise Albertz herself joined the youth wing of the Social Democratic Party in 1915, and joined the party itself as soon as she was old enough.

Luise Albertz remained in that job till 1933, which was a year of major regime change in Germany.

The political affiliations of the Albertz family, and their contempt for Nazi philosophy, were no secret, and under the terms of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, signed into law in April 1933, Luise Albertz was dismissed from her job in public service.

In 1939 war broke out, and with many male council workers sent away to join the army Luise Albertz was one of those conscripted back into the public sector to replace them, working for the Oberhausen city administration as a municipal clerk and welfare officer.

Luise Albertz participated in postwar reconstruction as a member of the "Zone Advisory Board" in the British zone, and was appointed to a position on the supervisory board of the important heavy engineering Huttenwerke Oberhausen AG business.

The name of Luise Albertz was high enough on the SPD party list of candidates for North Rhine-Westphalia to enable her to win a seat in the new Bundestag under the semi-proportional electoral system used.

In total Luise Albertz sat in the Bundestag for twenty years.