Agnes Schultheiss

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Agnes Schultheiß , née Landmann (born January 9, 1873 in Danzig , † December 10, 1959 in Ulm ) was a German teacher , linguist and city ​​councilor in Ulm.

Life

Agnes Landmann was born as the eleventh of twelve children in an upper-class, liberal family from Gdansk. After the turn of the century, she was one of the first women to study linguistics and literature in Oxford and Bonn, thus supplementing her educational training. With her husband, the postal inspector Franz Schultheiss, she went to Ulm in 1906, where she became involved early on for women's rights . In 1908, she was co-founder and for 27 years chairwoman of the “Rescue Association Good Shepherd”, which took care of pregnant girls and girls who had been rejected by their parents. In 1917 she also founded the local association of the Catholic German Women's Association .

Women's suffrage

In the “Saalbau”, today Bahnhofstrasse 8, Agnes Schultheiß gave an election speech on January 7, 1919 in Ulm, in which she discussed the position of women on women's suffrage :

“Today attitudes towards women's suffrage have changed completely. Right gave birth to duty. Perceive them! The order of the day is: act politically through education through the press, through influence on the men, on the returned field gray through the ballot paper. "

- Agnes mayor

Election to the local council

In the same year Agnes Schultheiß ( center ) was elected to the municipal council with Emmy Wechsler ( DDP ) and Katharine Lutz ( SPD ) as the first city councilors of the city of Ulm. Until 1928 she was active as a "particularly high-profile representative" for the local council. She last lived in Ulm-Wiblingen, where she was socially committed until her death in December 1959.

Honors

  • 2014 Agnes-Schultheiss-Platz in Ulm
  • 2018 The Ulm tram car bears her name

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 395 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Ulm: City of Ulm - redesigned area at the western town hall handed over to the citizens. (No longer available online.) In: ulm.de. May 23, 2014, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 13, 2017 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ulm.de  
  2. ^ City of Ulm: Avenio M Wagen 55 "Agnes Schultheiß". In: ulmereisenbahnen.de. June 14, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mayor, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landmann, Agnes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, women's rights activist and city councilor in Ulm
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1959
Place of death Ulm