Lotte Specht

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Charlotte ("Lotte") Specht (born October 15, 1911 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 10, 2002 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German football pioneer . In 1930 she founded the first German women's football club, the 1st DDFC Frankfurt .

Life

Lotte Specht grew up in the Gallus working-class district of Frankfurt . The football-loving butcher's daughter, a fan of the FSV Frankfurt , looked for like-minded people from the same sex in the Frankfurter Nachrichten at the beginning of 1930 . Specht later described the motivation for founding a club for women in the male domain of football: “My idea came not only from my love for football, but above all from women's rights. I said what the men can do, we can too. " The response to the ad was great, almost 40 women from Frankfurt registered and 35 of them founded the 1st German Women's Football Club in March at the Steinernes Haus inn not far from the Römerberg . DDFC). The first founding of a pure women's football club in Germany caused a sensation: In the same month Lotte Specht found herself on the front page of the weekly magazine Das Illustrierte Blatt .

The young women, most of them between 18 and 20 years old, trained on the Seehofwiese in Sachsenhausen , where other clubs and teams also played soccer. A male trainer was even hired for a short time. In the absence of opposing women's teams, however, only the two teams of the club played against each other. The reactions in the public ranged from scorn and ridicule to insulting the sportswomen as “man women” or “ suffragettes ”. When they met a men's team in Frankenthal , Palatinate , they were taken for what they were: "As a couple of young women who enjoyed football and not revolutionaries against men."

The 1st DDFC disbanded as early as autumn 1931, so that the history of the first women's soccer club remained a brief episode. Lotte Specht on the reasons: “And because the newspapers were so mean to us, some parents banned the girls from playing football. Over time we became less and less and after a year, well, it was over, the dream. ” The German Football Association had also refused the women any support and rejected an application from the 1st DDFC. Five years later, in 1936, the outlawing of women's football in Germany was affirmed by the DFB : In a corresponding press release, the association announced that football was incompatible with the dignity and nature of women. The 1st DDFC Frankfurt was never reactivated, it was not until the mid-1950s that women in Germany tried to organize football matches again. However, the German Football Association did not allow its association to operate until October 31, 1970, 40 years after the establishment of the “1. German women's football clubs ” officially to women's football.

Lotte Specht, who actually wanted to be a teacher, was sent to the commercial school by her parents. Professionally, she later worked in the Secretariat of the City of Frankfurt's Magistrate. From 1935 she had also attended a drama school, opened the cabaret “Die Impossible” after the Second World War, and in 1955 co-founded the “Frankfurter Mundartbühne”. Lotte Specht, who described herself as a "staunch bachelor", died very old in February 2002.

Honors / nominations

Since 2014, a green area in the Europaviertel , opposite the Paul Hindemith School , has been called "Lotte-Specht-Park".

literature

  • Lotte Specht entry in: Ronny Galczynski: Frauenfußball von A – Z , Humboldt, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-86910-169-9 , p. 269

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eduard Hoffmann, Jürgen Nendza: Laughed, banned and celebrated. On the history of women's football in Germany. Verlag Landpresse, Weilerswist 2005, ISBN 3-935221-52-5 , p. 20
  2. ↑ In some publications the association is named “1. DFC Frankfurt "abbreviated.
  3. ↑ cf. on this Gertrud Pfister: 'Must women play football?' Women's Football in Germany, Past and Present. In: Football Studies , Vol. 4 No. 2 2001, p. 43 ( online ; PDF; 131 kB)
  4. ↑ The illustrated sheet No. 12 of March 27, 1930, Frankfurt am Main. Occasionally, this date is incorrectly mentioned as the foundation date of the association. As can be seen from this publication, this took place earlier.
  5. ↑ Karl-Heinz Huba (Ed.): Football World History: Pictures, Data, Facts from 1846 to Today , Copress Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7679-0958-8 , p. 415
  6. ↑ a b Eduard Hoffmann, Jürgen Nendza: The Kick of Your Life In: SZ-Magazin , March 31, 2000 ( online )
  7. ↑ Booklet for the exhibition Frankfurter Fußballfrauen , Eintracht Frankfurt Museum (ed.), Frankfurt am Main 2009, pp. 13-14 ( page no longer available , search in web archives: online )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / deutsche-akademie-fussballkultur.de  
personal data
SURNAME Woodpecker, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Specht, Charlotte (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German football pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2002
Place of death Frankfurt am Main