Alice Neven DuMont

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Johanna Josefine Maria Alice Neven DuMont (née Minderop, born April 19, 1877 in Cologne ; † August 23, 1964 there ) was a German women's rights activist , local and social politician . She was a co-founder of the Cologne women's associations and promoter of numerous social and cultural projects in Cologne. From 1919 to 1933 she was second chairwoman of the city ​​association of Cologne women's associations . From 1930 to 1931 she represented the German People's Party in the Prussian Provincial Parliament .

After the Second World War , she was one of the founders of GEDOK in Cologne in 1953 .

Live and act

Alice Minderop was born on April 19, 1877, the only daughter of Emilie Roeder (1856–1941) and Heinrich Minderop (1842–1923).

After her wedding to Alfred Neven DuMont , Alice Neven DuMont got involved in various Cologne associations. During the First World War she was active in the National Women's Community. She initiated numerous social projects, in particular to alleviate the hardship of war invalids and widows with their children.

As early as 1909, she was one of the founders of the Cologne women's association. 1919 took over the second chairmanship of the city association. From 1925 onwards she organized the public relations work of the city association: the association newspaper appeared from November 1925 to May 1933 as a supplement to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger published by her husband. In 1926 and 1927 she took over the chairmanship of the Rhenish-Westphalian women's association, the supraregional association of city associations.

In 1929 the Cologne association of the Association of German and Austrian Artists' Associations of All Art Genres (GEDOK) was founded. Alice Neven DuMont took over the first chairmanship of the Cologne GEDOK. From 1930 she worked as a specialist adviser for the specialist group literature and literature in the Cologne GEDOK.

In 1930/31 she was elected to the Prussian Provincial Parliament as a member of the national liberal German People's Party.

After the National Socialists came to power , numerous Jewish artists and politicians, including Else Falk and Hertha Kraus, were forced to resign from the longstanding chairmanship of Cologne associations. On March 22, 1933, Alice NevenDuMont took over the chairmanship of the Cologne women's associations from Else Falk. After the Gaufrauenschaftleiterin Martha Gelinck announced in July 1933 the Urban Community " same switch ," the governing body dissolved on 22 May 1933, all connected to local chapters. As a result of the meeting of all Cologne women's associations on July 8, 1933, chaired by Martha von Gelinck, Alice Neven DuMont applied for integration into the Nazi women's group on July 18, 1933 for the mothers' recreation association, which she also chaired. After Else Falk and Margarete Tietz had to resign from the chairmanship of the Cologne GEDOK, Alice Neven DuMont took over the chairmanship of this association again.

In April 1934 she was asked by Martha von Gelinck to resign from the chairmanship of the Cologne GEDOK.

“After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that under your chairmanship the work of GEDOK, which is now affiliated with the women's organization and therefore ultimately under my control, does not seem to be guaranteed to the extent that it is desired in the National Socialist sense. I therefore ask you to resign from the chairmanship of GEDOK. "

- Martha von Gelinck, April 20, 1934 : Manfred Pohl: DuMont Schauberg: The struggle for the independence of newspaper publishers under the Nazi dictatorship, 2009, p. 152

Von Gelinck asked the head of the Reichs-GEDOK, Elsa Bruckmann , to replace the chair. After Lotte Scheibler (1935/1936) and Alexe Altenkirch (1936–1939) took over the function of chairmen of the Cologne GEDOK, Alice Neven DuMont was re-elected for one year in 1939 and replaced in 1940 by Irma Brandes .

In order to escape the constant bombing raids on Cologne, Neven DuMont spent the last months of the war in Starnberg with her son Kurt , who had married the daughter of Franz von Lenbach Gabriele.

After the Second World War , she continued to run Das Lädchen , the women's association's sales agency founded in 1922 by Rosa Bodenheimer and Adele Meurer for brokering valuables from private property . On July 21, 1953, along with Paula Haubrich, Lotte Scheibler, Margarete Zanders, Edith Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Else Lang, she was one of the initiators of the re-establishment of the Cologne GEDOK, of which she was made an honorary member on March 2, 1955.

In 1957 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class , for her socio-political and cultural commitment .

Private life

Family grave Neven DuMont in the Melaten cemetery

On July 25, 1896, she married the publisher of the Kölnische Zeitung and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, the Kommerzienrat Alfred Eduard Maria Johann Neven DuMont . The couple had four children: Paul Werner Josef Emil (* 1897), Elisabeth Henriette Christine (* 1899), Kurt Robert Hugo Aloisius (* 1902) and Hildegard Emilie Margarethe (* 1904).

The eldest son Paul Werner died on October 27, 1918 in Rilly-la-Montagne during the First World War .

The Neven DuMont family lived in the Marienburg district of Cologne . After her death, Alice Neven DuMont was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (Flur 63 A) in the Neven DuMont family grave, next to her husband and son Paul Werner.

Social and political engagement (selection)

  • City Association of Cologne Women's Associations (co-founder, second chairwoman)
  • National women's community (member)
  • German Society for Mother and Child Law (Chair)
  • Association for the mediation of home work (chairperson)
  • Cologne aid association for women who have recently given birth, infants and the sick (chairperson)
  • Mothers Recreation Association (Chair)
  • GEDOK local association (chairperson)
  • Women's association for the sale of valuables from private property
  • German People's Party (member, local executive committee Cologne)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Franken : Women in Cologne: the historical city guide . Bachem, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7616-2029-8 , pp. 32 .
  2. ^ History of the Cologne GEDOK. In: GEDOK COLOGNE. August 1, 2017, accessed June 14, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Gedok: Across borders. In: ksta.de. September 5, 2017, accessed on June 14, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Irene Franken: Women in Cologne: the historical city guide . Bachem, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7616-2029-8 , pp. 270 f .
  5. ↑ Irene Franken: Women in Cologne: the historical city guide . Bachem, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7616-2029-8 , pp. 267 .
  6. ↑ Manfred Pohl: M. DuMont Schauberg: the struggle for the independence of the newspaper publisher under the Nazi dictatorship . Campus, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38919-6 , p. 252 .
  7. ↑ Ute Haug: The Cologne Art Association in National Socialism. Structure and development of an art institution in the cultural and political landscape of the 'Third Reich' . In: Dissertation of the RWTH Aachen . Aachen 1998, p. 148 .
  8. ↑ The little shop: history. Accessed June 14, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines: Melaten. Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 90 .

literature

  • Katharina Regenbrecht: Alice Neven DuMont . In: Kölner Frauengeschichtsverein: "10 am punctually Gürzenich." Hundred years of moving women in Cologne - on the history of organizations and associations. Münster 1995, ISBN 3-929440-53-9 , 264f.

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personal data
SURNAME Neven DuMont, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neven DuMont, Johanna Josefine Maria Alice (full name); Minderop, Johanna Josefine Maria Alice (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist and social politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1964
Place of death Cologne