Harriet Wegener

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Harriet Wegener (born November 8, 1890 ; † 1980 ) was a Hamburg author, politician ( FDP ) and women's rights activist.

Life and work

In 1922, Wegener wrote her dissertation at the University of Kiel on the subject of commercial women’s work in Schleswig-Holstein .

She worked at the Institute for Foreign Policy at the University of Hamburg until her dismissal in 1934 . After her release, Wegener initially worked as a freelance translator. From 1942 Harriet Wegener worked as an editor at Hoffmann und Campe Verlag . Before that, however, she had already worked with the publisher. In the two years until the publishing house was banned in 1944, she played a “significant role in managing” the company and, after the war, in rebuilding it. She works at the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house as an editor and translator. She worked for the publishing house until her death.

politics

Suffragette

Wegener was a member and in 1935 president of the first German Zonta club in Hamburg. The international association set itself the task of improving the position of women in the legal, political, economic and professional areas. In 1933, the association in Hamburg was deleted from the register of associations after two years since it was founded. From this point on, the group met secretly in private. Together with Emilie Kiep-Altenloh , she often paid legal fees or deposited bail for politically persecuted Zontians. On the subject of women's rights, she is said to have said: "I think emancipation is normal."

Party politician

In the Weimar Republic , Wegener had been a member of the DDP since 1921 . In 1945 she participated in the founding of the Free Democrats party , which later became the Hamburg FDP regional association.

Wegener was appointed by the British occupying power in February 1946 to the " Appointed Hamburg Citizenship " as a representative of women. Because of the workload, she decided not to run in the 1946 state elections.

plant

  • Harriet Wegener: The development of industrial women’s work in Schleswig-Holstein during the war , also dissertation from January 9, 1922, Schmidt & Klaunig Verlag, Kiel 1922.

Translations

  • Michel DelCastillo, Harriet Wegener: The guitar , Hoffmann u. Campe 1960.
  • Paul Hazard : The Crisis of the European Spirit. 1680-1715. Translated from the French by Harriet Wegener. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 1939 (reprinted several times)
  • Paul Hazard, Harriet Wegener: Hoffmann & Campe, Stendhal 1950.
  • Robert Burnand, Harriet Wegener, Eva Schwimmer: The unleashed Olympus , Hoffmann u. Campe 1957.
  • Paul Hazard, Harriet Wegener, Albert E. Brinckmann: John Locke (1632-1704) and his age , Hoffmann & Campe 1947.
  • Paul Hazard, Harriet Wegener, Karl Linnebach: The rule of reason , Hoffmann & Campe, 1949.
  • Paul Hazard: Children, Books, and Great People. Foreword by Erich Kästner. Translated from the French by Harriet Wegener. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe Verlag 1952.

literature

  • Helmut Stubbe-da-Luz : Liberal Democrats in Local Responsibility. Harriet Wegener - appointed 'MP' by the military government. In: The town hall. Zeitschrift für Kommunalpolitik, Issue 11 (1986), pp. 678-682.
  • Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Munich 2007.
  • Michael Jungblut: Challenges and Answers. The Ganske publishing group. The history of a media company. "Hamburg 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the founding of the Institute for International Affairs at the University of Hamburg ( Memento from March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (IIA)
  2. ^ Page of the Hoffmann und Campe Verlag ( Memento from August 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Zonta Club Hamburg | Zonta Club Hamburg. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  4. ^ Zonta Union Reprint of an article from Die Welt am Sonntag by Eva Eusterhus, printed on April 9, 2006.
  5. ↑ Article by Barbara Stambolis on female self-organization ... (PDF; 183 kB) ( Memento from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Wegener, Harriet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, women's rights activist and politician (FDP), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1890
DATE OF DEATH 1980