Adele Meurer

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Adele Luise Meurer (born November 9, 1852 in Antwerp , † November 21, 1923 in Marburg an der Lahn ) was a German women's rights activist .

biography

Street sign in the Adelenhütte in Porz-Zündorf

Adele Bunge was a daughter of Adele Bunge, b. Andreae, from Mülheim am Rhein and the Amsterdam- born businessman Gustav Bunge. She had three sisters and a brother. The family lived at Sinzig Castle in Sinzig , which the father had built.

In 1872 Adele Bunge married the mining engineer Otto Meurer (1841–1921). In Porz-Zündorf he built the iron processing plant Carl Otto as well as the Adelenhütte named after his wife , an iron foundry , sand molding shop and stone factory.

Adele Meurer was involved in various women's organizations in Cologne. From 1909 to 1923 she was first chairwoman of the Cologne branch of the General German Women's Association , in which she advocated women's suffrage and more political participation for women. Together with Rosa Bodenheimer she founded The shops in Cologne, a sales agency for war and inflationary Impoverished. She supported the girls' high school association and the women's suffrage association and was secretary of the National Women's Community from 1914 to 1918 .

Adele Meurer died in 1923 a few days after her 71st birthday. She was buried in her husband's family grave in Cologne's Melaten cemetery . An indirect honor for Adele Meurer took place in 1964 when a street in Porz-Zündorf was named In der Adelenhütte .

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  1. ↑ a b Adele Meurer in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 12, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Socialist Monatshefte , No. 1/1924, p 54th
  3. ↑ A century of Sinzig Castle. In: Kreis-ahrweiler.de. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Kölner Personen-Lexikon , p. 363.
  5. ^ Helga Murmann: The structural development in the 1975 incorporated areas . In: Heribert Hall / Werner Baecker (eds.): Cologne - his buildings 1928-1988 . JP Bachem, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7616-1074-2 , p. 156 .
  6. ^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Names Lexicon , 3rd exp. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 406.
personal data
SURNAME Meurer, Adele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meurer, Adele Luise (full name); Bunge, Adele Luise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1923
Place of death Marburg on the Lahn