Radtke, Olga

Tax consultant, local politician

born: 03.09.1892 in Mainz

died: 21.07.1953 in the district of Augsburg

Shortly after her birth, Olga Radtke moved with her family from Mainz to Königsberg, where the family ran a large music store. As she was interested in business, she decided to study at the commercial college in Mannheim after leaving school. After qualifying as a commercial teacher in 1914, she worked as a qualified commercial teacher in Breslau until 1917. A year later, she married Kurt Radtke and worked with him as a book auditor and later as a tax consultant in Königsberg.

During the Second World War, she lost her husband and her eldest son. After fleeing Königsberg, she arrived in Wiesbaden in 1945, where she was finally licensed as a tax consultant. She joined the Liberal Democratic Party and at the end of 1945 was one of the founding members of the Wiesbaden branch of the party, of which she was a member of the executive committee. At the same time, she was involved in the non-party women's committee and later served as chairwoman of the non-party women's association.

Olga Radtke was one of the most active and influential local politicians in Wiesbaden in the years after the Second World War. From 1948 to 1952, she held a seat as a city councillor and, until her death in 1953, was the first female honorary councillor on the Wiesbaden city council alongside Helen von Bila. Following the example of her mother, Martha Harpf, a Königsberg local politician, she was particularly committed to equal rights for women in politics and society and tried to increase their influence on local political decisions. Olga Radtke died as a result of a car accident.