Meta Quarck hammer blow

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Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag (* December 21, 1864 in Höchst am Main , † August 11, 1954 in Frankfurt am Main ), born Meta Heinrichs , widowed Hammerschlag, was a German social politician and women's rights activist.

Life

Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag was the daughter of the highest gelatine manufacturer Wilhelm Chrysostomus Heinrichs (1836–1908) and his wife Luise , born. Saurmann (1842-1932). She had four sisters. She grew up in the Dalberg house , which her father had bought in 1868 as a factory building. She attended elementary school in Höchst and from 1874 the Elisabeth School in Frankfurt. In 1885 she married the chemist Wilhelm Hammerschlag (1853–1889) and moved to Elberfeld , where her husband worked in the paint factories. Friedrich Bayer & Co. worked. From the marriage came a daughter, Luise Ernestine (1886–1974). In 1887 the family moved to Frankfurt, where her husband became a partner in the Friedrich Weisbrod company . After the sudden death of her husband on January 24, 1889, she kept the family name until the end of her life.

As a widow and single mother, she became active as a social politician and women's rights activist from 1891. From 1899 to 1907 she lived in Karlsruhe in order to enable her daughter to attend school until she graduated from high school and to study at Heidelberg University. After her return, she initially lived in the household of her younger sister Leonore and her husband Ernst Homberger in Mainzer Landstrasse , and since her father's death in 1908 with her mother in her parents' villa in Frankfurt's Ostend at Röderbergweg 96-100.

In 1916 she married the social politician Max Quarck . In the garden of the villa they used common work rooms in the former coach house, a historicized half-timbered house that has been preserved to this day. The Hessen-Nassau Workers' Welfare Association also had its office here. While the villa was destroyed in the Second World War and demolished in 1965, the coach house was preserved. It was used in different ways after the war and is now home to the AWO history workshop. In addition to the popular name witch's house , it has had the official new name Meta-und-Max-Quarck-Haus since 2009 .

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Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag was one of the pioneers of the emancipation of women during the empire , fought for abolitionism (= fight against prostitution by renouncing punishment of women and sexual education) and campaigned for a democratic constitution of the state.

Her focus was on social welfare and youth care. She was an early member of the Frankfurt home care association founded in 1892 . From 1911 she belonged to the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ). She is considered one of her social politicians from the very beginning. Her political goals were influenced by her future husband, who from 1901 was the first and initially only Social Democrat in the Frankfurt city council. In 1920/21 she was one of the co-founders of the Frankfurt Workers' Welfare Association .

During the time of the Weimar Republic , Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag was the first woman to be a member of the magistrate of the city of Frankfurt am Main from 1919 to 1924 and from 1926 to 1933 in the role of honorary city ​​councilor (in 1921, Else Alken joined the center as the second woman ) .

After the National Socialist seizure of power , she was removed from office in 1933 and was banned from working. The workers welfare was banned by the Nazis.

In August 1943 Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag left Frankfurt am Main and stayed in Limburg an der Lahn with relatives from the Hammerschlag family, who ran a wholesale company there. After her return in 1948 she was one of the founders of the Frankfurt Workers' Welfare Association. Until her death in 1954 she lived in the Bornheim district in the household of the city ​​elder Marie Bittorf , with whom she had a long friendship.

Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1952 and has since received a city pension. She is buried in Frankfurt's main cemetery next to her second husband, Ernst Max Quarck. A portrait painted by Ottilie Roederstein is in the Historical Museum .

Honors

  • In 1952 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and a city honorary pension.
  • On the occasion of its 90th anniversary in 2009, the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Frankfurt named the house of the AWO history workshop in Röderbergweg in Frankfurt's Ostend meta-and-Max-Quarck-Haus.
  • Since 2017, a commemorative plaque on the Dalberger Haus in the Höchst old town has been commemorating Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag.

literature

  • Hanna Eckhardt, Sabine Hock : * Quarck-Hammerschlag, Meta in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon (revised online version), as well as: Sylvia Goldhammer: Quarck-Hammerschlag, Meta , in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 159 f .
  • Hanna Eckhardt, The History Workshop in the Meta and Max Quarck House, ed. from the AWO district association Frankfurt a. M. 2009
  • this. and Dieter Eckhardt, Frankfurt AWO women in the years of a new beginning, ed. from the AWO district association Frankfurt a. M. 2006
  • this., I'm radical to the bone. Meta Quarck hammer blow. A biography, Frankfurt 2015

Archival material

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.awo-frankfurt.de/awo/wir/zeitung/AWO%20Zeitung%202_08.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Archive in the witch's house, in: AWO newspaper, Arbeiterwohlfahrt Kreisverband Frankfurt am Main e. V., edition 02/2008, p. 11 (PDF file; 2.14 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.awo-frankfurt.de  
  2. ↑ http://www.awo-frankfurt.de/awo/wir/zeitung/AWO%20Zeitung%203_08.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History of the AWO is stored in the witch's house, in: AWO newspaper, Arbeiterwohlfahrt Kreisverband Frankfurt am Main e. V., edition 03/2008, p. 7 (PDF file; 2.21 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.awo-frankfurt.de  
  3. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Institute for Urban History of the City of Frankfurt am Main, family archives @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de
  4. ↑ http://www.ffmhist.de/ffm33-45/portal01/portal01.php?ziel=t_hm_stadtgleichschaltung The synchronization of the magistrate, ffmhist.de
  5. ↑ http://www.fnp.de/fnp/mobil/rmn01.c.6129703.de.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The AWO's memory, Frankfurter Neue Presse, June 23, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de  
personal data
SURNAME Quarck hammer blow, meta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Maximum
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1954
Place of death Frankfurt am Main