Sidonie Werner

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Sidonie Werner (born March 16, 1860 in Posen ; died December 27, 1932 in Hamburg ) was a co-founder of the Jewish Women's Association (JFB) and a Hamburg social politician in the first third of the 20th century, whose work radiated far beyond the Hanseatic city.

Live and act

She came from a respected, culturally and socially oriented family of scholars. Attending the theater and concerts, literary evenings and traveling determined family life. After attending secondary school for girls , Sidonie Werner completed the teacher training seminar. She taught as a primary school teacher in Altona and Hamburg until her retirement .

In 1893 she was one of the founding members of the Israelite-Humanitarian Women's Association . She was second until 1908, then she became first chairwoman of the women's association and held this position until her death in 1932.

In 1904 Bertha Pappenheim and Sidonie Werner jointly founded the JFB. Bertha Pappenheim was elected first chairwoman and Sidonie Werner her deputy. The aims of the JFB were: combating anti-Semitism , strengthening the Jewish community feeling, improving the situation of working women and girls, improving training opportunities for Jewish girls and women, and combating trafficking in girls, especially with Jewish women from Eastern Europe. Sidonie Werner resolutely protested against the view that the trafficking of girls could be prevented if only every Jewish girl received a trousseau. In this view, she saw above all a devaluation of the female sex and believed that the best dowry for Jewish women is and will remain their professional training .

Numerous social institutions and homes were founded with the help of Sidonie Werner from the JFB. B.

From 1917 she was also a board member of the Central Welfare Office for Jews in Germany.In the 1920s, she regularly stayed in Bad Segeberg in the summer to keep the home she founded there, which had expanded to three houses on Bismarckallee with 100 beds supervise.

Sidonie Werner was also active in other associations and institutions. a. in the "Jewish School Association Hamburg", in the "Emergency Committee for the Eastern Jews", in the "German-Israelite Community Hamburg" etc. In 1919 she joined the SPD and in 1929 was the organizer of the "World Conference of Jewish Women" in Hamburg.

Sidonie Werner tombstone , Ilandkoppel Jewish Cemetery

There is a record of Sidonie Werner that she gave in 1907 to the delegates' meeting of the JFB against the trafficking of girls. She demanded and brought about the accession to the “German National Committee to Combat Trafficking in Girls”, the establishment of the “Jüdische Bahnhofshilfe” (1926 with 60 German offices) and the abolition of the double standard: “Our sons, too, are to be educated in chastity, not just their daughters . "

Sidonie Werner died a month before the end of the Weimar Republic . On her death, the "Israelite Humanitarian Women's Association" paid tribute to her with the following words:

Sidonie Werner's work is large and comprehensive! The 'Israelite-Humanitarian Women's Association' in Hamburg essentially owes its heyday to her. The Jewish women of Hamburg owe it to her if they are entitled to vote at the Assembly of Representatives to advise and act for the good of the Jews in their city. The middle-class kitchen, the home for Jewish girls, the Jewish kindergarten in Hamburg, the children's recreation home that bears her name in Bad Segeberg, and also the housekeeping school there : They are all creations of those who went home, they all stood for their kind, pure charity equally close to filled hearts, Sidonie Werner knew how to fill them all and their work with her spirit throughout her life .

Sidonie Werner's grave is located in the Ohlsdorf Jewish cemetery (Ilandkoppel) , grid square L 1, 2.

literature

  • Marion Kaplan: The Jewish Women's Movement in Germany 1904–1938. Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-7672-0629-3 .
  • Ina Lorenz : The Jews in Hamburg during the Weimar Republic. Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-7672-1094-0 .
  • Friedrich Gleiss: Jewish life in Segeberg. Norderstedt 2002 ISBN 3-8311-3215-1 .
  • Roswitha Werner: Sidonie Werner and the Jewish women's movement. Munich 2002 (unpublished diploma thesis).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. n. Kaplan 1981, p. 142
  2. ↑ cf. Werner 2002, p. 56 ff.
  3. ↑ cit. n. Werner 2002, p. 178
  4. ^ Cemetery plan
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Sidonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1932
Place of death Hamburg