Möckel, Sabine, née Schwalbach

Insurance employee, city councillor

Born: 25.10.1906 in Biebrich

died: 04.12.1986 in Wiesbaden

Möckel completed an apprenticeship at Hessen-Nassauische-Versicherung. Coming from a family close to the SPD, she became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and joined the trade union in 1922 and the SPD in 1926. She also belonged to the Wiesbaden Esperanto Club. In the spring of 1933, the "Esperantists" were broken up or dissolved and soon afterwards the SPD and its affiliated organizations, including the SAJ, were banned.

After Möckel's dismissal for "political unreliability", she took a job at Chemische Werke Albert. There she worked in the "foreigners' office", which was responsible for the foreign civilian and forced laborers employed by the company. Due to a denunciation, she was arrested on 13.02.1941. On November 28, 1941, she was sentenced to several months in prison by the Kassel Higher Regional Court for her illegal political activities, together with other women, including Henny Neu. After her release from prison on May 19, 1942, she returned to her previous job at the Albert company.

From 1945, Möckel became politically active again: she was a member of the non-party women's committee and sat on the citizens' council for the SPD until 1946, the predecessor body of the city council, of which she became a member in the same year. In 1952, she gave up her work in the city council due to her family situation.

From then on, she was active on the board of the re-established Esperanto Association, for which she traveled to various world congresses.