Anna Rogstad

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Anna Rogstad (around 1900)

Anna Georgine Rogstad (born July 26, 1854 in Nordre Land , † November 8, 1938 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian women's rights activist , teacher and politician . She was the first female MP in the Norwegian Parliament in Storting .

Life

origin

Anna Rogstad was born in Veisten in Nordre Land municipality in 1854 . At the age of ten, Rogstad moved to Trondheim , where her father, Ole Rogstad, found a job as a legal secretary. There she attended the middle-class secondary school, the only public secondary school that also taught girls at the time.

Teacher

At the age of 17 she started teaching at a private boys' school. In 1873 she completed a teacher examination and she continued to teach until 1877 at a public school for boys in Trondheim. She then moved to Kristiania, today's Oslo , where she continued to work as a teacher in public schools.

Rogstad became involved in the training of female teachers from the 1860s. In 1883 she became a member of the teachers' association of Kristiania, of which she became chairman in 1889. She held this office until 1921. She was also involved in the Norwegian teachers' association Norges Lærerforening , which was founded in Trondheim in 1892. From 1892 to 1907 she was the vice chairman of this association. There she ensured, among other things, that as many men as women should be part of the management. After disputes over this decision, Rogstad split off the Kristiania teachers 'association, which she ran, from the Norwegian teachers' association. Instead, she founded the Norwegian teachers' association Norges lærerindeforbund in 1912 . She headed this association between 1912 and 1919 chairwoman.

In 1899 she began, together with other teachers, to volunteer in the evening to teach 25 girls in Kristiania who left elementary school after the seventh grade and could not afford any further training. In 1900 a school was founded from this, which in 1909 was taken over by the Kristiania municipality and directed by Rogstad. She kept the post of headmistress until she retired in 1923.

Rogstand spoke out against free teaching aids and for separate lessons for girls and boys. Over time, Rogstad has published various books on pedagogy and other teaching subjects.

Women's rights

Rogstad was a co-founder of the women's rights organization Norsk Kvinnesaksforening in 1884 . In 1885 she was one of the initiators of the women's suffrage organization Kvinnestemmeretsforening , of which she was deputy chairman until 1897. In this position, she was behind several proposals in the Norwegian Parliament in Storting to introduce women's suffrage. After the Landskvinnestemmerettsforeningen split off , she was again the deputy chairwoman of the original organization from 1902 to 1913.

politics

In the local elections in 1901, she stood for the Kvinnestemmerettsforeningen in Kristiania and she became a so-called Vararepresentantin , i.e. substitute member. From 1907 to 1910 she was finally a permanent member of the Kristiania city council. In 1909 she was a founding member of Frisinnede Venstre , a split from the liberal party Venstre, which still exists today .

For the parliamentary elections in the same year, her party entered into a collaboration with the conservative Høyre . Rogstad stood in the election, in which women could also be elected for the first time, as a candidate for the joint list of the two parties. However, she did not receive a direct mandate for the Storting , instead she became Vararepresentantin for the Høyre politician Jens Bratlie . On March 17, 1911, she was the first member of parliament to represent Bratlie and was the first woman in the Storting. The then Speaker of Parliament Magnus Halvorsen said that it would be a special day in the country's history. Between February 1912 and January 1913, she was finally active as a member of parliament, since Bratlie suspended his mandate as Prime Minister. In 1912 she was given the floor 29 times in debates on various subjects. She did not run again in the following parliamentary elections. It was not until 1922 that Karen Platou became the first woman to be directly elected to parliament.

In 1917 she became a member of the social democratic party Arbeiderpartiet . She justified her decision in relation to the newspaper Dagbladet by saying that she would be disappointed with the Frisinnede Venstre, as it does not represent any liberal positions. Rogstad went on to say that if you want liberal politics you have to turn to the radical party instead.

death

Anna Rogstad died on November 8, 1938 at the age of 84. She was buried in Vår Frelsers Gravlund cemetery in Oslo.

Others

In Oslo, Anna Rogstads vei street was named after her. In March 2011, the centenary of her first assignment in parliament was celebrated in Storting .

Works

  • Modersmaals-undervisningen i smaaskolen (1890)
  • Ledetraad for katekismusundervisningen i de to første aar (1891)
  • ABC for skole and hjem (1893)
  • De syv skoleaar. Praktisk veiledning for norskundervisningen (1895)
  • Fortsettelsesskolen. Handbook for undervisningen (1924)

literature

  • Tanja Wahl, Perspective 01/11: Anna Rogstad - første kvinne på Stortinget i 1911 ( PDF )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Første kvinne på Stortinget. In: kvinnehistorie.no. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ a b Elisabeth Lønnå: Anna Rogstad . In: Store norske leksikon . May 10, 2017 ( snl.no [accessed February 20, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Rolf Grankvist: Anna Rogstad . In: Norsk biografisk leksikon . September 28, 2014 ( snl.no [accessed February 20, 2020]).
  4. ↑ a b Anna Rogstad - første kvinne på Stortinget i 1911. November 7, 2019, accessed on February 20, 2020 (Norwegian).
  5. ^ NSD - Norsk senter for forskningsdata AS. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (Norwegian).
  6. ↑ Frisinnede Venstre . In: Store norske leksikon . April 13, 2015 ( snl.no [accessed February 20, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Kvinner på Stortinget. Storting , accessed February 20, 2020 (Norwegian).
  8. ↑ Tanja Wahl: Kvinner i Stortinget. (PDF) Storting , accessed February 20, 2020 (Norwegian).
  9. ↑ Nasjonalbiblioteket. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Anna Rogstad-marking in Stortinget. April 7, 2011, accessed February 20, 2020 (Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Rogstad, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rogstad, Anna Georgine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian teacher, women's rights activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordre country
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1938
Place of death Oslo