Irmgard Enderle

Irmgard Enderle (born Irmgard Rasch: 28 April 1895 – 20 September 1985) was a German politician, trade unionist and journalist.

Life Early years Irmgard Rasch was born in Frankfurt am Main. Her father was a secondary school teacher, and she too undertook a training to become a teacher. As a young person she was a member of the Wandervogel hiking organisation and of the Free German Youth Association. and August Enderle, whom Irmgard Rasch had married in 1929.

At the regional government level, between 1946 and 1947 Enderle was a member of the Bremen parliament. In respect of the occupation zones which became, formally in May 1949, West Germany, she was a member of the Bizonal Economic Council from 1948 till 1949.

Between 1947 and 1949 she edited the newspaper "Bund", and from 1949 till 1951 she edited the Trades Unions Confederation newspaper "World of Work" ("Welt der Arbeit"). She was also working as a freelance journalist, with a particular focus on trades union education work. Along with this she undertook certain leadership roles in the trades union movement. Between 1950 and 1955 she was a member of the executive of the print workers' union, IG Druck und Papier, and at one point she was chair of the German Journalists' Union and of the Women's Committee of the Trades Unions Confederation. Along with all this, she was a member of the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime and of the Humanist Union.