Albertine Badenberg

Albertine Badenberg (born December 29, 1865 in Steele , † April 20, 1958 in Essen ) was a German teacher. She was involved in the women's movement and in the Center Party .

Life

The father was the architect Albert Badenberg . The mother came from the noble Koeck von Stuckimfeld family in Vienna . After graduating from secondary school at the age of fifteen, she spent two years in Belgium and England learning French and English. Then she attended a teachers' seminar in Koblenz . In 1885 she passed the final examination for middle and high schools. In the following years she joined the Association of Catholic Teachers (VkdL). In 1886 she became a teacher at Steele. In 1887 Badenberg took over the management of the German school in Genoa , but returned to Germany in 1888 due to the death of her father.

Back in Steele, Badenberg got involved in the VkdL. So in 1894 she founded an agency that also had branches in England and France. Legal advice followed in 1896. She campaigned for the legal and financial equality of teachers with teachers. From 1898, Badenberg was a member of the board of the teachers' association. At her suggestion, the journal Christian Woman was founded in 1900 as the mouthpiece of the Catholic women's movement .

Against the sometimes fierce resistance from other parts of the Catholic milieu , Badenberg was instrumental in founding the Catholic German Women's Association in 1906 . From 1908 she was also a board member of the association and in 1909 she founded a branch in Steele. In 1910 she took over responsibility for the finances of the entire association. She later also became Secretary General. From 1917 she took leave of absence from school and worked full-time for the women's association until 1921. She then returned to Steele as a teacher and became vice principal in 1922.

During this time, Badenberg became a member of the state board, provincial board and district board of the Center Party. In December 1924 she was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which she belonged until 1933. She represented constituency 22 (Düsseldorf-Ost).

In the women's association she was largely responsible for the purchase of various properties used by the association and organized lotteries for this purpose .

During the time of National Socialism , Badenberg seems to have had contact with opposition circles, while the reach of the Catholic association movement was increasingly curtailed.

In the post-war period after the Second World War in Germany , she contributed to the re-establishment of the Catholic teachers' association. In 1949 she made a pilgrimage to Assisi . She died at the age of 92.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (December 19, 1955, on the occasion of the 90th birthday)
• Badenberg Street in Steele

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. p. 500.

Web links

• Literature by and about Albertine Badenberg in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President