Aurelie Deffner

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Aurelie Deffner (born December 9, 1881 in Handzell , then Upper Bavaria ; † June 29, 1959 in Augsburg , née Wagner) was a Bavarian politician of the SPD and one of the first female members of the Bavarian state parliament .

Aurelie Deffner was born as Aurelie Wagner in Handzell near Aichach as the illegitimate child of a maid. She died on June 29, 1959 at the age of 77 in Augsburg.

Political activity in Augsburg

After completing elementary school at the age of 14, Deffner began working as a textile worker in an Augsburg cotton fine spinning mill in 1897. In 1900 she joined the German Textile Workers' Association. Due to her engagement to the active Social Democrat Wilhelm Deffner , she was fired, but she soon found work again in the worsted spinning mill . She married in November 1902 and worked for two more years.

From 1904 she was active in women's organizations. In 1905 she became a board member of the Augsburg Women's Education Association , in 1906 she became the deputy of the confidante Marie Greifenberg , and a year later she took over the office of Greifenberg. Deffner organized reading evenings on which women dealt with the party program of the Social Democrats. Deffner also campaigned for women's suffrage, which the Social Democratic Party had called for in the Erfurt program of 1891. When the Reich Association Law was changed in 1908 so that women were given full freedom of association and assembly, Deffner organized the closed transition of the Augsburg Women's Education Association to the SPD . Deffner was then elected to the party executive and in 1910 she became the second secretary.

Political activity in Kempten

At the end of 1910 Aurelie and Wilhelm Deffner moved with their two children to Kempten , where Wilhelm Deffner set up the office of the textile workers' association for the Allgäu . From 1912 she was the first secretary of the SPD in Kempten. She campaigned for women's suffrage at rallies in Kempten and in 1914 on Women's Day in Augsburg. When her husband was drafted, she took over the management of the Kemptner textile district in 1917. In 1919 Deffner was elected to the Bavarian state parliament as an SPD member for the constituency of Kempten-Sonthofen .

Bavarian State Parliament

Together with Käthe Günther , Rosa Kempf (both DDP ), Emilie Mauerer ( SPD ) and Ellen Ammann , Aloisia Eberle , Maria Freifrau von Gebsattel and Therese Schmitt (all BVP ) she was one of the first eight women to belong to the Bavarian state parliament. In the state parliament she was active in the field of school education. Deffner did not run again and left the state parliament after the state elections in 1920.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marita Panzer & Elisabeth Plößl: Bavaria's daughters, portraits of women from five centuries . Allitera, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86906-755-1 , p. 317 to 319 .
  2. ^ Marita Panzer and Elisabeth Plößl: Bavaria's daughters, portraits of women from five centuries . Allitera, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86906-755-1 , p. 319 & 320 .
personal data
SURNAME Deffner, Aurelie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Aurelie (maiden name); Deffner, Aurelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Handzell
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1959
Place of death augsburg