Ida Wolff — born Ida Pohl — was a politician in the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany).

 

She trained in home economics before working as a bookbinder and later as a saleswoman. She married Carl Wolff in 1918 and they had four sons, three of whom were killed in the Second World War.

 

Since 1912, Wolff was active in trade unions, joined the SPD in 1918, then started working at the Jugendamt (youth welfare office). Her political career really kicked off when, among other roles, she was elected to the SPD party executive committee in Central Silesia (now in Poland) and as a city councillor in her native town of Brzeg.

 

She and her husband were arrested by the Nazis following the 1933 Reichstag fire. Upon release, Ida Wolff escaped to Berlin and settled in Kreuzberg. When the war ended, she reignited AWO, an organisation banned by the Nazis that supported the welfare of socially disadvantaged people, together with fellow SPD politicians Louise Schroeder and Franz Neumann. She was elected to the Kreuzberg district council and Berlin city council, and later became a member of the Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus (house of representatives).

 

Sources:

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Online
Wikipedia