Anna Simson

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Anna Simson , b. Haberkern (born August 20, 1835 in Werder (Havel) or Potsdam , † March 12 or 14, 1916 in Leubus Monastery in Silesia ) was a German suffragette.

Life

Nothing is known about her parents' house so far. She attended Scholz's seminar for teachers in Breslau , worked for a time as an educator and then married Robert Simson, “who taught her to think socially”. As early as 1866 she founded the Breslau Women's Education Association and its teaching institutions, of which she was chairman and director for 40 years.

The trip to Chicago in 1893, where a women's congress was held in connection with the world exhibition, was particularly significant . She suggested that the Federation of German Women's Associations was founded in March 1894 and joined the International Women's Association. Anna Simson also played an important role as organizer at the International Women's Congresses in London in 1899 and in Berlin in 1904.

Anna Simson became the first secretary of the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine, later its deputy chairwoman. In total, she was a member of the board of directors until 1906.

Contemporary witnesses describe her as a delicate woman with a fine, soft organ.

“It was not easy to work under Mrs. Anna Simson! There was no standing still, no work that fluctuated like a clock. It was always important to strive forward, to introduce practical innovations, to meet time demands, to make what she recognized as good and right as a pioneer in the field of women's education. "

At the age of 81 she died after long suffering in the Leubus monastery in Silesia.

Lectures and publications

1881: Holiday colonies for poor, ailing school children. Purpose and significance, preparation, setup and execution, along with a general overview of all previous achievements in this area. Lecture. Wroclaw. Koebner publishing house.

1895: The Federation of German Women's Associations - what it wants and what it does not want. Lecture at the 1st General Assembly of the Federation of German Women's Associations.

1896: The government and state parliaments accept the federal petition concerning female factory inspectors. Lecture given at the general assembly of the Federation of German Women's Associations.

1899: Reich insurance for individuality and old age or private insurance. Lecture as chairwoman of the Commission for the Protection of Women Workers, of which she was a member until 1905, Die Gewerbeovelle in the Reichstag .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b M. H .: Anna Simson. In: The Bund. Central Gazette of the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations . 11th year, issue 5, May 1916, p. 8.

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personal data
SURNAME Samson, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haberkern, Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Werder (Havel) near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1916
Place of death Leubus Monastery , Silesia