Anna Edinger

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Anna Edinger, b. Goldschmidt (born May 17, 1863 in Frankfurt am Main ; died December 21, 1929 in Oberursel ) was a German social politician , women's rights activist , founder and peace activist .

Life

Child and youth

Anna Edinger grew up as the eldest child of the banker Benedikt Moritz Goldschmidt (1831–1906) and his wife Pauline nee. Jacobsen lived in an upper-class Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main and was interested in science even in her youth. The conventions of that time, however, did not allow a woman to study in this way. However, through her marriage to the neurologist and brain researcher Ludwig Edinger in 1886 , she was able to bring the independently acquired knowledge to her husband's research work.

Women's rights activist and peace activist

Anna Edinger got involved nationally and regionally for the Jewish women's movement, z. B. at the Federation of German Women's Associations , of which she was a member from 1903 to 1910. A special focus of her work was on measures against gender-specific poverty. Since the 1890s she worked in local politics and in associations, especially for child welfare and the fight against tuberculosis , the most common cause of death at the time. Among other things, she coordinated the city ​​federation of associations for poor relief and charity and was a founding member of the Institute for the Common Good of the Frankfurt patron and industrialist Wilhelm Merton . In 1900 she was one of the founders of the light and air bath on the banks of the Main in Sachsenhausen .

In June 1904, she led an international women's congress in Berlin , at which the International Alliance of Women was formally founded under the name International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) .

Edinger was one of 28 women from Germany who took part in the 1915 International Women's Peace Congress in The Hague . In doing so, she boycotted the appeal of the Federation of German Women's Associations (BdF), which supported the military mobilization in Germany. She commented on the subsequent attempts to exclude her by other female BdF members with the following words: “[…] Apart from the fundamental view of the war, there are two opposing views: that respect for Germany and internal security can only be achieved through a thorough defeat the enemy is to be fought for; and that the longer the fighting, the more serious wounds are inflicted, the more difficult it will be to come to a peace that leaves no fuel for new wars - that respect for Germany cannot be won or strengthened by the sword. "

After the end of the war, Edinger continued to be involved in the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom . Even after the war, she remained chairwoman of the Frankfurt Women's Association .

Family grave site in the Frankfurt main cemetery

Even after her husband died in January 1918, she continued to support his work. By increasing the capital of the foundation named after her husband by a quarter of a million Reichsmarks , she became a benefactor of the Frankfurt University , whose institute for neurology she financed significantly. In 1928 Edinger received the plaque of honor from the city of Frankfurt . Edingerweg in the Dornbusch district is named after her and her husband . The family grave is located in the Frankfurt main cemetery (Gewann II GG 21).

family

Edinger had three children with her husband Ludwig, the neurologist and sociologist Fritz Edinger (1888–1942), Dora Edinger (1894–1982), who later became the wife of the pharmacologist Werner Lipschitz , and the paleontologist and founder of paleoneurology Tilly Edinger (1897–1967) ).

literature

  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 171 .
  • Dorothee Linnemann: Anne Edinger (1863, Frankfurt-1929, Frankfurt) - pacifist and founder, pp. 130–131 . In: Jan Gerchow, Dorothee Linnemann (Ed.): Book accompanying the exhibition. Ladies choice! 100 years of women's suffrage . Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt 2018, ISBN 978-3-95542-306-3
  • Gerald Kreft: Unnamed and unknown. Anna Edinger (1863-1929): University founder - women's rights activist - German Jew . In: Research Frankfurt , 1/2006, pp. 85–89. link

Web links

Commons : Anna Edinger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Frankfurt biography on December 22nd
  2. ↑ a b Frankfurter Frauenzimmer - Biographies. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b Edinger, Anna. Hessian biography (as of March 15, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Grave of the Edinger family in the Frankfurt main cemetery (grave II GG 21, location , pictures )
  5. ↑ Edinger, Fritz at par.frankfurt.de , the former site of the city of Frankfurt am Main
personal data
SURNAME Edinger, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldschmidt, Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social politician, women's rights activist, founder and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1929
Place of death Oberursel (Taunus)