Anna Haag (politician)

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Anna Haag (born July 10, 1888 in Althütte as Anna Pauline Wilhelmine Schaich ; † January 20, 1982 in Hoffeld (Stuttgart) ) was a German writer , pacifist , politician ( SPD ) and women's rights activist .

Life

Anna Haag grew up in modest circumstances, her father was a teacher. The large family - the Schaichs had three sons and three daughters - moved to Dettingen an der Erms in 1901 and lived in the “Schlössle”, today's town hall, until 1913. After elementary school and for some time at the secondary school for girls in Backnang and the women's work school in Reutlingen, Anna Haag had to work in her parents' household. In 1909 she married the later professor of mathematics and philosophy Albert Haag from Künzelsau . The couple first went to Wleń (German Lähn) in Silesia and then to Trzebiatów (German Treptow an der Rega) in Pomerania , where Albert Haag worked as a teacher. In 1910 their daughter Isolde was born. In 1912 they moved to Bucharest , where Anna Haag began to write reports about the country and its people for German newspapers. Their daughter Sigrid was born in 1915. In 1916, while her husband was interned in Bucharest, Anna Haag managed a refugee shelter, and later a dormitory for German workers. After the First World War , the family returned to Nürtingen in Württemberg. It was there that Haag began to write novels while her husband was teaching as a math teacher again. Her son Rudolf was born in 1922 and Anna Haag began to publish a mother's diary in several German-language newspapers . In 1926 the family moved to Stuttgart, and Haag's autobiographical novel Die vier Roserkinder appeared. During the Nazi era, Albert Haag was transferred as a punishment for making pacifist statements, and Anna Haag was banned from publishing.

After the Second World War , Anna Haag went on lecture tours to the USA in order to counter the negative image of Germany there. In Stuttgart she co-founded the German-American Women's Club . Anna Haag was involved in Stuttgart in the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband , the house for neurotic patients and was involved in the establishment of the psychotherapeutic clinic in Stuttgart-Sonnenberg.

Anna Haag's uncle Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the Linotype typesetting machine .

After her death in 1982 she was buried in the Birkach cemetery.

The secret diaries

Haag suffered greatly from the ban on publication that was imposed on her and wrote about "twenty volumes full of clairvoyant notes on life in the 'Third Reich'" between 1940 and the end of the war. Haag first hid it in her basement, and later buried it in the garden. It was not until 2016 that parts of these diaries were published by the former director of the "Center for German-Jewish Studies", Edward Timms , in his study Anna Haag and her Secret Diary of the Second World War. A Democratic German Feminist's Response to the Catastrophe of National Socialism published after Haag's granddaughter found her in the closet. It is thanks to the publisher Sonja Hintermeier that three years later, Scoventa , a German-language publisher was finally found that made Haag's secret diaries accessible to a large audience. In them it becomes clear that Haag was a staunch opponent of National Socialism ; she saw in it the negation of all human values. Timms himself sees Haag's diaries as being “readily comparable with Victor Klemperer's diaries on the level of insight and adherence to principles ”.

Political activity

Anna Haag already joined the SPD at the time of the Weimar Republic because she was convinced that the SPD could best achieve a democratic Germany. Because of her experiences in World War I, she campaigned vehemently for peace and hoped to be able to do the same within the SPD. In addition, in 1925 she joined the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom , which had been founded in 1915 and from 1919 also had a German section. In 1945 she called the Württemberg branch of the women's league back to life and took over its chairmanship.

After the Second World War she was involved in the reconstruction of Stuttgart and advocated political education for women. In 1949 Anna Haag published the magazine Die Weltbürgerin with the aim of convincing women of their political responsibility. Anna Haag was, among other things, a member of the city ​​council of the city of Stuttgart and co-founder of the working group of Stuttgart women . In 1951 she founded the home and work space for young women, today's Anna-Haag-Haus in Bad Cannstatt .

In 1946 Anna Haag was appointed to the state constitutional assembly for the SPD and then to the first state parliament of Württemberg-Baden . She was one of only two women. Among other things, she campaigned for the temporary suspension of criminal proceedings in connection with Section 218 . She remained a member of the state parliament until 1950, after which she wanted to concentrate more on her social and literary work.

Anna Haag was committed to the recognition of housewife work as a fully valid job and co-founded the housewives association. And she campaigned for the rejection of the obligation to do military service with a weapon . The sentence “Nobody may be forced to do military service with a weapon” from Law No. 1007 of the State of Württemberg-Baden, which was introduced by it, was incorporated in a restricted form into the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 (“Nobody may do military service against his conscience with the Weapon are forced ”, Article 4, Paragraph 3 of the Basic Law ).

honors and awards

Two streets in Stuttgart are named after her, one of them in the immediate vicinity of her grave; there are commemorative plaques on Anna-Haag-Platz in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch. Two primary schools were named after her, one in her native Althütte and one in Nürtingen-Neckarhausen. The home economics school in Backnang , the Anna-Haag multi-generation house in Bad Cannstatt and the wedding and parliamentary room in Dettinger's town hall also bear her name, “Schlössle”.

Works

  • The four Roserkinder. Stories from a forest school building , Heilbronn 1926
  • Renate and Brigitte (novel published as a series in the Stuttgarter Neues Tageblatt , 1932), Berlin book edition: Otto Uhlmann Verlag, 1937
  • Ursula takes inventory (from March 20, 1935 as a series in the Leipziger Abendpost, evening edition of the Leipziger Latest Nachrichten , published novel); no book edition
  • Paul is kicked out! (Children's story for boys, published as a series in the children's supplement of the Basler National-Zeitung in autumn 1937)
  • ... and we women? Published by the "International Women's League for Peace and Freedom", Württemberg Group, Stuttgart: League against Fascism 1945
  • Frau und Politik , Karlsruhe: Verlag Volk und Zeit (speech in front of a group of SPD women, presented in Karlsruhe on March 24, 1946), 24 pages
  • Die Weltbürgerin , Anna Haag (Ed.), First issue February 1949
  • I'm traveling to America , Stuttgart 1950
  • To take away: A little cheerfulness , Stuttgart: Adolf Bonz & Co. 1967
  • The happiness of living: memories of eventful years , Stuttgart: Adolf Bonz & Co. 1968
  • Wanted: Miss with the patience of angels; a hilarious Roma n, Stuttgart: Adolf Bonz & Co. 1969
  • The forgotten love letter and other Christmas and New Year's Eve stories , Stuttgart 1969
  • In my time , Mühlacker: Stieglitz 1978 (memories)
  • For an afternoon , Mühlacker: Stieglitz 1980 (reflections and memories)
  • Living and Being Lived: Memories and Reflections, ed. by Rudolf Haag, Tübingen: Silberburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-87407-562-6 .

literature

  • Sigrid Emmert and Petra Garski-Hoffmann: Literary awakening behind Swabian curtains: Anna Haag , in: “I could not have lived without art”: Nürtingen artists , Petra Garski-Hoffmann (eds.), Nürtingen: Frickenhausen 2005, p. 111– 127.
  • Christa Gallasch: Anna Haag (1888–1982). Pacifist and citizen of the world , in: Birgit Knorr and Rosemarie Wehling (eds.): Women in the German Southwest , Stuttgart 1993, pp. 217-221.
  • Christa Gallasch: Anna Haag: writer, women's rights activist, politician and pacifist , in: Schwäbische Heimat , 41 (1990), pp. 342–352.
  • Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German parliamentarians from 1919 to today , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-923476-15-9 , p. 113 ff.
  • Regine Kuntz: Anna Haag: writer and politician. A picture of life , part I, in: History and stories from our home Weissacher Tal , 2 (1987), pp. 91–120, and A picture of life , part II, in: History and stories from our home Weissacher Tal , 3 (1988) , Auenwald, pp. 11-59.
  • Birgit Meyer: Remember, we women have to do it! In: This: women in the men's association. Politicians in leadership positions from the post-war period until today. Campus, Frankfurt / Main 1997, pp. 279-294, ISBN 3-593-35889-1 .
  • Maja Riepl-Schmidt : The Peace Woman : Anna Haag, nee Schaich , in: Against the over-cooked and ironed-out life: Women's emancipation in Stuttgart since 1800 , Stuttgart: Silberburg 1990, pp. 247-254.
  • Maja Riepl-Schmidt: I will drink the blue spring air into me. Anna Haag and her time in Sillenbuch. In: Christian Glass (ed.): Sillenbuch and Riedenberg. Two city-villages tell their story. Stuttgart 1995, pp. 158-161.
  • Britta Schwenkreis: Politics and Everyday Life in World War II: Anna Haag's "War Diary " , Part 1, in: Backnanger Jahrbuch , Volume 13 (2005), pp. 170-200 and Part 2, Volume 14 (2006), p. 191 -216.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edward Timms: The secret diaries of Anna Haag. A feminist under National Socialism . Scoventa, Bad Vilbel 2019, ISBN 978-3-942073-17-2 , pp. 284 .
  2. ↑ Edward Timms: The secret diaries of Anna Haag. A feminist under National Socialism . Scoventa, Bad Vilbel 2019, ISBN 978-3-942073-17-2 , pp. 283 f .
  3. ↑ Edward Timms: The secret diaries of Anna Haag. A feminist under National Socialism . Scoventa, Bad Vilbel 2019, ISBN 978-3-942073-17-2 , pp. 284 .
  4. ↑ Edward Timms: The secret diaries of Anna Haag. A feminist under National Socialism . Scoventa, Bad Vilbel 2019, ISBN 978-3-942073-17-2 , pp. 285 .
  5. ↑ Albert Haag was denounced in 1933 because he told his students "how he heard soldiers trapped in barbed wire screaming for their mothers". As a punishment, he was transferred to a girls' high school (see: Edward Timms, The Secret Diaries of Anna Haag. A Feminist in National Socialism . Scoventa, Bad Vilbel 2019, ISBN 978-3-942073-17-2 , p. 83.)
  6. ↑ a b Ursula Ott: Thinking is finally allowed again! , in: chrismon, the evangelical magazine, 03.2019, p. 44
  7. ↑ No, I don't want to be “German” anymore! From the secret diaries of the feminist Anna Haag during National Socialism. (PDF) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 1, 2019, accessed February 21, 2020 .
  8. ^ The "Center", co-founded by Edward Timms, is affiliated with the University of Sussex; see. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cgjs/index
  9. ↑ https://www.annahaaghaus.de/anna-haag-lesung/. Anna Haag Mehrgenerationenhaus, November 20, 2019, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Opportunity seen, opportunity seized. In: Wetterauer Zeitung. September 23, 2019, accessed February 19, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Christa Gallasch: Anna Haag (1888–1982). Pacifist and citizen of the world . In: Birgit Knorr and Rosemarie Wehling (eds.): Women in the German Southwest . Stuttgart 1993, p. 218 .
  12. ↑ Hannes Hintermeier: The secret pattern of Karl Kraus . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 17, 2016, p. 10 .
  13. ↑ Edward Timms: The secret diaries of Anna Haag. A feminist under National Socialism . Scoventa, Bad Vilbel 2019, ISBN 978-3-942073-17-2 , pp. 289 .
  14. ↑ Law No. 1007 of the State of Württemberg-Baden
  15. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  16. ^ Street names in Stuttgart
  17. ↑ Anna-Haag-Grundschule Althütte
  18. ^ Anna-Haag-Schule primary school Neckarhausen
  19. ↑ Anna-Haag-Schule Backnang
personal data
SURNAME Hague, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, pacifist, politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Old hut
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1982
Place of death Stuttgart