Antonie Traun

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Antonie Wilhelmine Traun (born on December 6, 1850 in Hamburg as Antonie Westphal ; died on October 28, 1924 there ) was a German philanthropist, women's rights activist and social reformer.

Life

Magnificent album of the General German Women's Association with photographs of the main activists (around 1900), below right Antonie Traun

Antonie Westphal was the daughter of Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Westphal , a Hamburg merchant. Her younger brother was Otto Eduard Westphal , who later took over his father's tea business and became a Hamburg senator. Her brother Eduard Wilhelm Westphal was a lawyer and a member of the Hamburg Parliament. She had three other siblings.

Gravestone in
the women's garden

Antonie Westphal married Otto Traun (1842–1906) in 1872, with whom she had six children by 1889, but one of them died early. Otto Traun was the son of Christian Justus Friedrich Traun , a Hamburg merchant and factory owner; and by Bertha Ronge (née Meyer, Traun divorced since 1851). Ronge was a well-known suffragette; Through her at the latest, her daughter-in-law Antonie Traun came into contact with the beginnings of the women's movement. Her brother-in-law Heinrich Traun was also socially active and founded people's homes for the workers in Hamburg.

In 1898 Traun joined the General German Women's Association . In 1900 she herself founded the Association of Social Aid Groups as a branch of the Hamburg ADF. In this association she organized charitable social engagement by Hamburg women. In 1907 Traun became a board member of the ADF. After the outbreak of the First World War , Traun took over the organization of the clothing stores, which collected, processed and distributed clothes for the needy. In 1915 she founded the Association of Hamburg Housewives and in 1916 the Stadtbund Hamburgischer Frauenvereine . The former pursued the goal of representing the economic interests of women; the second was to organize a common interest representation of the women's associations. Even after the end of the World War, Traun was organizationally active in both associations, placing value on non-partisan work.

Her historic tombstone is in the women's garden at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Koerner: German gender book . tape 19 . Starke, Görlitz 1911, p. 479 ff .