Anna Mackenroth

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Anna Mackenroth (born April 9, 1861 in Danzig ; † July 29, 1936 in Meilen ) was a German-Swiss lawyer .

Mackenroth first attended the secondary girls' school and worked as an educator from the age of 16 . In Berlin in the 1880s she gave private lessons in ancient languages, philosophy and mathematics in order to prepare for her studies.

The Anna-Mackenroth-Weg in Berlin-Lichterfelde

In 1888 she moved to Zurich and matriculated first at the philosophical faculty of the University of Zurich , later at the law and political science faculty. At that time, she became a member of the “Frauen-Bildungsreform” association, which campaigned for improved access for women to educational institutions and, in particular, for women's studies . She was a student of Emilie Kempin-Spyri and received her doctorate in 1894 with her dissertation on the history of trade and commerce woman . In 1895 she became a teacher at the Zurich Girls' School, and in 1898 she was naturalized in Zurich.

She passed the bar exam and was the first woman to receive a certificate of competence as a lawyer on January 27, 1900 . In 1903 she gave up her profession as a teacher and from then on concentrated on her profession as a lawyer, mainly working as a public defender for poor women. She advocated a guaranteed minimum income that would secure a subsistence level for every citizen . In addition, she campaigned for the rights of single mothers and for a reform of naming and marriage law .

In 1911 she married a Zurich merchant and from then on was no longer active in public for the women's movement. In 1914 she filed for divorce. She wrote several dramas between 1903 and 1917 , but they were never performed.

Mackenroth spent the last year of her life in the Hohenegg private clinic in Meilen, financially supported by the Zurich Academic Association and by the welfare organization (decades later the pedagogue Elisabeth Handschin would also spend her retirement there). Mackenroth died on July 29, 1936. Her urn was buried on August 1 in the Sihlfeld cemetery in Zurich .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regula Ludi: Anna Mackenroth. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 16, 2007 , accessed May 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Gabi Einsele: Anna Mackenroth, first Swiss lawyer. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mackenroth, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss lawyer and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1936
Place of death miles