Anna Plothow

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Anna Plothow (born February 4, 1853 in Berlin ; † December 17, 1924 there ) was a German women's rights activist , social activist and writer .

Life

Anna Schwerdt was trained in her father's glove factory and took over the management of the company for four years after his father's death.

In 1883 she married the composer Paul Plothow, who died a year later. Plothow now began to be active as a writer. She was the first woman to join the editorial team of the Berliner Tageblatt . She was also at the forefront of the women's movement , founded the day care center “Mädchenhort” and other social institutions, such as a non-profit job agency for servants in Berlin. She was a founding member of the Berliner Frauenclub eV from 1900.

Through his friendship with her, Hans Würtz got a job as a primary school teacher in the boys' school in Berlin-Tegel in 1910 .

She died of pneumonia at the age of almost 72.

Works (selection)

  • The woman's book. A guide for the German woman . Reisner: Leipzig 1901.
  • The founders of the German women's movement . Rothbarth: Leipzig 1907.
  • Heideprinzesschen and other fairy tales for children of all ages . Enßlin & Laiblin: Reutlingen o. J.
  • Markish sketches . Schall & Rentel: Berlin undated
  • Social education . in: The Boy Scout Book for Young Girls. Ed .: Elise v. Hopffgarten. Verlag der Ärztliche Rundschau Otto Gmelin "Pathfinder Verlag": Munich 1912.
  • Dance elf and other fairy tales . Seybold: Munich 1921.

literature

  • Ursula Koehler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 281 f. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3
personal data
SURNAME Plothow, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pioneer in the women's movement, founder of day nurseries and other social institutions and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1924
Place of death Berlin