Adelheid Steinmann

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Adelheid Steinmann (1900)

Adelheid Steinmann , née Adelheid Holtzmann (born April 26, 1866 in Heidelberg , † January 20, 1925 in Bonn ), was a German suffragette and politician .

Life

Adelheid Steinmann was born in 1866 as the daughter of the theologian Heinrich Holtzmann , her mother Karoline (1840–1889) was the daughter of the historian Georg Weber . Her brothers include the historian Robert Holtzmann and the hygienist Friedrich Holtzmann , the historian Walther Holtzmann was Adelheid Steinmann's cousin. In 1886 she married the geologist Gustav Steinmann . The couple had a son, the teacher Gustav Steinmann, and four grandchildren. One of them was Wulf Steinmann (1930–2019), member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and President and Rector of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1982–1994).

Services

In 1900 Adelheid Steinmann successfully implemented general women's studies in Baden , the first country in the German Empire. Retrospectively, four women were enrolled at the University of Freiburg for the winter semester of 1899/1900 . In doing so, she could count on the support of her husband, who was then vice-rector of the university.

Until then, women in Germany could only study with a special permit or be admitted as guest auditors. The prerequisite for a special permit was usually "supervision" by a husband. When Prussia first allowed women to study in 1908, there were already 58 female students studying in Freiburg, including 132 female students.

As a result, Adelheid Steinmann was Reich Chairwoman of the Association for Women's Education and Women's Studies from 1900 to 1914 . After 1908, her activities increasingly shifted from the educational issue to the political arena, one goal being women's suffrage . From 1912 she worked with Julie Bassermann in the Reich Women's Committee of the National Liberal Party . In 1918 Steinmann co-founded the left-liberal German Democratic Party (DDP) and its second chairwoman. The first chair was reserved for one man, it was Friedrich Naumann .

Adelheid Steinmann ran for the National Assembly in 1919 , although she had given up her safe place on the list to Marie Elisabeth Lüders, who later became a member of the Reich and Bundestag . In Bonn, Steinmann was one of the first female city councilors in Germany.

Honors

A street in the Freiburg district of Rieselfeld is called Adelheid-Steinmann-Straße.

Despite her successful work, her name has been forgotten today. He is never mentioned at exhibitions on women.

Fonts

  • The higher education for girls, lectures given at the congress in Kassel. Leipzig / Berlin 1908.
  • The demand for political neutrality in women's suffrage. In: Die Frau , Vol. 17 (1909/1910), pp. 641-648.
  • Women's movement and party politics. In: Die Frau , Vol. 19 (1911/12), pp. 481-486.
  • Two women's judgments about husband, wife and family. In: Die Frau , Vol. 20 (1912/1913), pp. 153–159.
  • Once again the Oberlyceum and its friends. In: Die Frau , Vol. 21 (1913/1914), pp. 370–374.
  • The woman in the family . In: Yearbook of the Federation of German Women's Associations . 1918, pp. 31-49.
  • numerous lectures and memoranda ( Stadtarchiv Freiburg and Stadtarchiv Bonn).

literature

  • Jan Merk:  Steinmann, Adelheid. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 216 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Jan Merk : Adelheid Steinmann. In: Baden biographies . NF 4. 1996, pp. 285-287.
  • Ernst Th. Nauck: The women's studies at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg 1953.
  • Lexicon of women . Vol. 2, Zurich 1954, p. 1345.
  • Grete Borgmann: Freiburg and the women's movement. Ettenheim 1973, pp. 8-46.
  • Barbara Greven-Aschoff : The bourgeois women's movement in Germany 1894-1933. Göttingen 1981, pp. 119, 146, 163, 287.
  • Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Adelheid Steinmann. In: Das Rathaus Vol. 39 (1986), pp. 527-531.
  • Eva Steffens: Historical sketch. In: Women's Handbook. Freiburg 1992, pp. 188-198.
  • Rudolf H. Böttcher: 100 years of women's studies, Adelheid Steinmann. (with pedigree and picture), In: Palatinate-Rheinische Familienkunde. Volume 14 (1999), p. 467.

Obituaries in:

  • Bonner Zeitung January 23, 1925, Generalanzeiger January 24, 1925
  • Martha Dönhoff : Adelheid Steinmann. In: The woman. Vol. 32 (1924/1925), pp. 183-184.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-protocol.de/nachrichten/id/56589/

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personal data
SURNAME Steinmann, Adelheid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holtzmann, Adelheid (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1925
Place of death Bonn