Helene Rother

Helene Rother (1908–1999) was the first woman to work as an automotive designer when she joined the interior styling staff of General Motors in Detroit in 1943. She specialized in designs for automotive interiors, as well as furniture, jewelry, fashion accessories, and stained glass windows.

Early life

A native of Leipzig, Germany, Rother studied art at the Kunstgewerbe School in Hamburg. She also studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Rother moved to Paris and designed of high fashion jewelry, as well as popular little animal pins that women wore on hats and dresses before World War II.

In 1932, Rother gave birth to Ina Ann Rother whose father was active in the French Resistance and on the run for years.

Rother fled from Nazi-occupied France together with her seven-year-old daughter Ina, to a refugee camp in northern Africa where they stayed for four months before finding passage on a ship bound for New York City in 1941.

Career

Rother's first employment in New York was as an illustrator for Marvel Comics. The following year, she joined the interior styling staff of General Motors in Detroit, Michigan. She was responsible for upholstery colors and fabrics, lighting, door hardware and seat construction.

Rother

Rother is a local government district in East Sussex, England. The district is named after the River Rother which flows within its boundaries.

History

The District of Rother was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Bexhill, the Municipal Borough of Rye and Battle Rural District. It is one of three districts within the county without borough status and is the easternmost one: the other two being Lewes to the west, and Wealden in the centre. The Borough of Hastings lies surrounded by Rother.

Governance

Rother District Council is elected every four years, with currently 38 councillors being elected at each election. Since 1983 the Conservatives have had a majority on the council, apart from between 1991 and the 1999 election when no party had a majority. As of the last election in 2015 the council was composed of the following councillors:-

Wards

Rother District Council offices are based in Bexhill-on-Sea. Bexhill has nine wards: the remaining councillors represent the other 11 wards.

Rother (surname)

Rother (or Röther) is a surname. It can refer to: