Anna Schepeler-Lette

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Anna Schepeler-Lette Engraving based on a contemporary drawing by A. Schubert 1883
“The leaders of the women's movement in Germany” in the gazebo in 1883. Anna Schepeler letter in the lower row on the right

Anna Schepeler-Lette (born December 19, 1827 in Soldin , † September 17, 1897 in Berlin ) was a German politician, women's rights activist and school founder. She was the eldest daughter of Wilhelm Adolf Lette .

Life

Anna Lette grew up in a politically interested and educationally friendly family in Berlin. As a young woman, she accompanied her father to the National Assembly in Frankfurt a. M. There she met the businessman Carl Schepeler (3), married him and was involved in Frankfurt art life and in women's associations. The marriage remained childless. After the death of her husband, she moved back to her father in Berlin in 1866 and became involved in the "Association for the Promotion of Employment of Women" which he founded.

After Wilhelm Adolf Lette's death in 1868, Anna Schepeler-Lette took over the management of the Lette-Verein , which he founded and now renamed, from 1872 . Under her leadership, the Lette Association became a school sponsor and a global role model for vocational training for women. She risked setting up schools without a role model and with no guarantee from the state and business. Under her leadership the trade and trade school (1872), a housekeeping school (1886) and the photography school (1890) were founded. In 1873 she implemented the telegraphist training. The typesetter school was opened in 1875.

Anna Schepeler-Lette also recognized the need to train female trainers and had teachers trained in the Lette Association since 1875 - initially handicraft and drawing teachers, later trade and industry teachers. So she paved the way for the training of women to become teachers in Prussia. From 1895 the profession of X-ray nurse was developed in the Photography School.

Under the chairmanship of Anna Schepeler-Lette, the contacts between the Lette Association and the German women's movement were intensified and stabilized. She was a member of the board of trustees of the Association for the Organization of High School Courses for Women in Berlin. The Lette Association and the General German Women's Association (ADF) have been working together successfully since 1876 . In 1893 she went to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where she introduced the Lette Society and took part in the women's congress. In 1894 Anna Schepeler-Lette participated in the founding of the Federation of German Women's Associations (BDF) and was elected deputy chairwoman. In the same year, she took part as the official representative in the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the General German Teachers' Association (ADLV) and was an active member of the board of the women's department for the organization of the trade exhibition in Berlin in 1896 .

Works

  • Report on the Association of German Women's Education and Employment Associations to be submitted to the General Assembly of the General German Women's Association in Heidelberg . In: Women's advocate . Berlin, 1879, pp. 340-345
  • The top production in the Giant Mountains . In: German women's lawyer . Berlin, 1881, pp. 1-4

literature

  • Annual reports of the Lette Association 1871–1897
  • Anna Schepeler-Lette . In: The Gazebo . Issue 18, 1897, pp. 308 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Art and Handicraft in the Womens Building of the World's Columbian Exposition. ed. by Mout Howe Elliott. Rand, Chicago 1894
  • Wiener Mode , XI, 1897, 4, p. 161
  • Karl Weiß: A German Schoolboy: Memoirs . Self-published, Wiesbaden 1905, 436 pp.
  • Lilly Hauff: The Lette Association in the history of the women's movement . Berlin 1928
  • Doris Obschernitzki: The woman her work! Lette-Verein: on the history of a Berlin institution, 1866–1986. Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-926175-06-0 .
  • Groundbreaking Women / ed. on the occasion of d. Exhibition "The woman in home and work" 1912 by the German Lyceum Club. Berlin 1912

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathrin Chod: Schepeler-Lette, Anna . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89542-122-7 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
  2. ↑ Bärbel Kuhn marital status single: celibate women and men in the middle class (1850–1914) , p.59
personal data
SURNAME Schepeler-Lette, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, women's rights activist and school founder
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Soldin
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1897
Place of death Berlin