Frieda Nadig

Friederike Nadig (11 December 1897 – 14 August 1970) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

[1] After being educated at a Bürgerschule, Nadig completed vocational training as a sales clerk at the Konsumverein Herford co-operative and worked as saleswoman from 1914 to 1920.

[1] In May 1933, Nadig was summarily dismissed from her job for "unreliability"[3][4] based on her "Marxist attitude"[5] and the Nazi Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.

[1] After three years of unemployment and difficulties caused by the political reasons for her dismissal,[5] she found a position at the public health office of Ahrweiler in early 1936 and stayed there until the end of the war,[2] using her influence to protect people against Nazi euthanasia laws.

[6][5] In 1944/45, she was among those 2500 Ahrweiler residents who temporarily lived in the Silberbergtunnel [de], a tunnel (part of the never-finished Strategic Railway Embankment) in a nearby mountain that was used as shelter from Allied bomb attacks.

[2] Nadig was a member of the Bundestag from 1949 to 1961, winning election as first-past-the post candidate three times,[10] in the constituencies of Bielefeld-Stadt and Bielefeld-Halle.