Anna Schneider (women's rights activist)

Anna-Schneider-Steg in Cologne's Rheinauhafen

Unveiling of the sign with an explanatory note (July 2020)

Anna Maria Schneider (born Röder, born December 12, 1845 in Cologne ; † April 16, 1935 there ) was a German women's rights activist and socialist .

Live and act

She fought for the civil rights of women and girls and advocated access to secondary schools, male-dominated professions, freedom of assembly and the right to vote.

In January 1892 she initiated the foundation of the women's and girls 'education association in Cologne and thus the first women's organization of the Cologne workers' movement . Until its dissolution in 1894, she chaired the five-member board. However, the association was temporarily closed in October 1893 by the Cologne police president Wilhelm von König on the basis of Section 8 of the Association Act of March 11, 1850, which prohibited the political work of women, and was ultimately banned by a court and the board members were sentenced to one day's imprisonment and a fine .

Apparently unimpressed by this, the women again invited to public meetings. a. in November to one with the well-known women's rights activist Clara Zetkin , who was visited by 350 people. Further convictions, ongoing quarrels with the Cologne police and the Prussian authorities were the result, but also other events beyond the existence of the association.

In 1893 Anna Schneider was a delegate at the SPD party congress in Cologne. She died in 1935 at the age of 89 in Cologne's Bürgerhospital. She was widowed by the Social Democrat Ernst Schneider, whom she married in 1873.

Honors

In 2005 the city of Cologne named a street in the Rheinauhafen in Anna-Schneider-Steig.

literature

Angela Jaitner: The beginnings of the socialist women's movement using the example of the Cologne women's and girls' education association (1892-1894), in: Reinhold Billstein (ed.) The other Cologne. Democratic Traditions since the French Revolution, Cologne Pahl-Rugenstein, 1979., pp. 156–169.
Ana Maria Bermejo, Nicole Zimmermann: Women in the Cologne Rheinauhafen - architecture and résumés, Wartberg-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8313-2328-9
Irene Franken: Women in Cologne, Bachem, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7616-2029-8
Helga Bargel: "10 am punctually in Gürzenich": Women in Cologne that were moved for a hundred years; on the history of organizations and associations (Agenda women), Agenda Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-392-944-053-9

Web links

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

More detailed information on Anna Schneider in the wiki of the Cologne Women's History Association
Dirk Riße: There is not a single photo of her: Who was the famous Anna Schneider from Cologne? In: ksta.de: July 9, 2020, accessed on July 19, 2020.
Ulrike Weinert: Street named after Anna Schneider: Courageous fighter for women's rights. In: rundschau-online.de. July 16, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 .
Peter Berger: Satirical weekly review: Posthumous class struggle in the Rheinauhafen. In: ksta.de July 18, 2020, accessed on July 19, 2020

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Death certificate no. 236 of April 17, 1935, registry office Cologne I. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
^ Josef Olbrich: History of adult education in Germany . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-95032-1 , p. 447 .
↑ ^a ^b Helga Bargel: “10 am punctually Gürzenich”: Women in Cologne that were moved for a hundred years; on the history of organizations and associations (women agenda) . Ed .: Cologne Women's History Association. tape 5 - Agenda women. Agenda Verlag, Münster 1995, ISBN 978-3-929440-53-9 , p. 20 and 23 .
↑ Hans Delius: The Prussian law of associations and assembly with special consideration of the law of March 11, 1850 . C. Heymann, Berlin 1891, p. 28–32 ( staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).
^ Protocol on the negotiations of the party congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Held in Cologne a. Rh. From October 22 to 38, 1893. (PDF; 14 MB) Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, p. 284 , accessed on May 20, 2020 .
^ ^A ^b Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne street names lexicon . Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2020.
^ Minutes of the 10th meeting of District Representation 1 - City Center on Thursday, September 8th, 2005. In: City of Cologne. The District Chairman of the City District 1 - Inner City, September 2005, pp. 21-22 , accessed on July 8, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schneider, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schneider, Anna Maria (full name); Röder, Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	April 16, 1935
Place of death	Cologne

[:0-1] Death certificate no. 236 of April 17, 1935, registry office Cologne I. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .

[2] Josef Olbrich: History of adult education in Germany . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-95032-1 , p. 447 .

[:2-3] Helga Bargel: “10 am punctually Gürzenich”: Women in Cologne that were moved for a hundred years; on the history of organizations and associations (women agenda) . Ed .: Cologne Women's History Association. tape 5 - Agenda women. Agenda Verlag, Münster 1995, ISBN 978-3-929440-53-9 , p. 20 and 23 .

[4] Hans Delius: The Prussian law of associations and assembly with special consideration of the law of March 11, 1850 . C. Heymann, Berlin 1891, p. 28–32 ( staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).

[5] Protocol on the negotiations of the party congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Held in Cologne a. Rh. From October 22 to 38, 1893. (PDF; 14 MB) Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, p. 284 , accessed on May 20, 2020 .

[:1-6] A ^b Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne street names lexicon . Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2020.

[7] Minutes of the 10th meeting of District Representation 1 - City Center on Thursday, September 8th, 2005. In: City of Cologne. The District Chairman of the City District 1 - Inner City, September 2005, pp. 21-22 , accessed on July 8, 2020 .