Greta Wehner: A life in the shade - anniversary for the 100th birthday!

Greta Wehner: A life in the shade - anniversary for the 100th birthday!

Herbert-Wehner-Platz, 21073 Hamburg, Deutschland - On October 31, 2024, the SPD Harburg will proudly celebrate Greta Wehner's 100th birthday, a captivating personality who stood in the shadow of her husband, Herbert Wehner for decades. This impressive event is celebrated with a solemn wreath laying and a reading about her remarkable life, which is all too often forgotten. It is an appeal to the memory and the hearing that many women in our history have not received!

Greta Wehner, the daughter of a brave Nazi resistance fighter, fled to Sweden, where she married Herbert Wehner in 1944. Your life path is dramatic and inspiring. After the war, she returned home and joined the SPD in 1947. With full commitment she worked as a social welfare center and helped her husband by being his secretary, cook and driver. "Greta Wehner's way of life shows us how important the commitment to equal rights for women and men is," said Claudia Loss, chairwoman of the SPD Harburg, which indicates the remarkable commitment of the honored. Your tireless efforts become the basis for the social cohesion that we all need!

solemn memorial events

The celebrations begin on October 31, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. at Herbert-Wehner-Platz, where the SPD Harburg invites you to lay it off. A warm welcome applies to all the supporters who want to take part in this moving memorial event! But that's not all. On November 5, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., the Herbert Wehner House continues when the author Christoph Meyer reads from his new biography "Greta Wehner. A woman steps out of the shadow". Entry to this interesting reading is free - so every part could have a woman's life who has never been recognized enough!