Bremen Women's Committee
| Bremen Women's Committee eV - State Women's Council Bremen (bfa) |
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| purpose | Non-party and religious umbrella organization of women's associations to represent the interests of women in the state of Bremen |
| Chair: | Perdita Engeler, chairwoman of the board |
| Establishment date: | 1946 |
| Number of members: | approx. 40 women's associations |
| Number of employees: | currently an employee in the office |
| Seat : | Bremen |
| Website: | www.bremer-frauenausschuss.de |
The Bremen Women's Committee e. V. - Landesfrauenrat Bremen (bfa) is a socially recognized, non-partisan and non- denominational umbrella organization of women's organizations from all areas of society in the state of Bremen .
The association represents the interests of women in the state of Bremen and is the point of contact for the Senate , citizenship and the Bremen Central Office for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women (FZS). He is committed to the implementation of equality between women and men. It was founded in 1946 and today has around 40 member associations. The Bremen Women's Committee e. V. is the first German state women's council. According to the Radio Bremen Act, since the founding of the Broadcasting Council in 1949, he has sent at least one representative to the committee as the representative of the women's organizations in the state of Bremen. In addition, it has one representative each in the ESF and ERDF committees, as well as in the media council of the Bremen State Media Authority.
The annual award of a Bremen “Woman of the Year” by the Women's Committee since 1999 has attracted broader public attention in Bremen. The honor will be presented at a ceremony in the town hall or the Bremen citizenship (2018) on International Women's Day .
In recent years, the Bremen Women's Committee has experienced a noticeable politicization and its commitment to the equal participation of women has been more clearly perceived in the Bremen public. In April 2010, for example, the committee turned in a unanimously approved appeal against the continued exclusion of women from the guest selection of the renowned Schaffermahlzeit . In 2010, the Bremen Women's Committee initiated the monthly lecture and discussion event “Politika” on controversial issues in women's politics on the Theaterschiff Bremen.
History of the Bremen Women's Committee
Appeal for founding after the Second World War
“We call you women!” Was the headline of the urgent appeal with which its founders went public in March 1946 in the Weser-Kurier . Founding and board members were the five signatories of the appeal Agnes Heineken , Anna Klara Fischer , Anna Stiegler , Käthe Popall and Irmgard Enderle , as well as Elisabeth Lürssen and Charlotte Niehaus . They all had political experience, had been involved in the old women's movement before 1933 and were later exposed to severe political persecution by the National Socialists. In the extensive newspaper article, the newly founded Women's Committee called on the women of Bremen to use the democratic freedom brought into the country by the Allies to build a peaceful society free of militaristic and National Socialist tendencies. After the call, Hanni Lohmann also joined the women on the committee, where she found one of her fields of activity and was soon elected to the board.
Survival work and years of construction
In order to rebuild society, the committee was supposed to bring women from different social groups together across party-political boundaries in working groups to solve current practical problems such as nutrition, housing, education, work or hygiene and thus overcome the earlier split into bourgeois and proletarian women's movement . When the committee was founded , the Bremen organizations of the SPD and the Communist Party , the Bremen Democratic People's Party , the Bremen trade union associations, as well as the workers' aid organization , Caritas Association , Israelite Community , the organization of the 5th Welfare Association and the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom in Bremen were represented.
The women's committee raised extensive demands for political and practical equality for women, while at the same time, in line with the old women's movement, there was a strong emphasis on the traditional women's role as mother within the family and on “being for others”. In the first few years the commitment of the Bremen Women's Committee was strongly focused on the survival work of the Bremen women in need and the rebuilding of the post-war period . The women in the committee were sometimes given personal union with political offices in this early phase: the women's committee was soon invited to parliament as a matter of course , consulted with the individual senatorial authorities and enjoyed the highest reputation with the Senate . From September 1946, the women's committee got its own office in the town hall , where it could hold a public consultation hour for the difficulties of individual women and more and more became a mediator in questions of practical problems between the population and authorities or politics.
The women's committee became a member of the German Women's Ring, which was founded in 1949 as an association of women's organizations in the western German states. In the early years, the women's committee influenced, among other things, important practical requirements for social housing in Bremen, which brought about improvements in the daily life of families and single women.
Decline in political importance in the 1950s and 1960s
With the end of reconstruction and the subsequent periods of economic prosperity in the late 1950s and 1960s, the limits of non-partisan work increasingly became apparent. The committee could not speak with one voice on controversial political issues and in this phase increasingly lost its social importance - the ASF (SPD) and DGB temporarily withdrew from the association. A new generation of women gave preference to their political commitment within the parties to the cross-party work of the women's committee.
Relationship to the new women's movement in Bremen since 1970
When the New Women's Movement was formed in Bremen at the beginning of the 1970s, it was initially barely noticed by the women of the Bremen Women's Committee. For a long time , the activists of the New Women's Movement found it difficult to recognize the achievements of the old women's movement . Both sides co-existed largely without mutual exchange until the 1980s. In the course of the 1990s the relationship relaxed despite existing reservations and various organizations and groups of the New Women's Movement joined the Bremen Women's Committee.
Development in recent years
In the past few years, the Women's Committee has developed a more determined approach to women's politics, including on controversial issues. After the 2007 general election, the Bremen Women's Committee made specific demands on the new Senate, including the consideration of women in new positions to be filled after the change of government and a Federal Council initiative for an equality law for the private sector. After the citizens did not consider women in the new election of the State Court in 2007, the women's committee reacted with indignation and supported the sharp criticism of the state women's representative . The composition of the court has changed significantly since then: since the election of judges in the 18th legislative period of the Bremen citizenship in November 2011, five of the seven members of the committee have been women.
At its meeting of delegates in April 2010, the committee made a unanimous appeal against the continued exclusion of women from the guest selection of the renowned Schaffermahlzeit of the Bremen economic and captain's elite , which in the appeal criticized as a violation of the equality requirement of the Basic Law and the UN Human Rights Charter has been. Many years ago, an application that also aimed at the participation of women in the “flagship” of the Hanseatic city was rejected in the women's committee. Controversially discussed, but postponed for further information gathering, was a motion that dealt with the possible ban on the burqa and headscarf as in other European countries. Since May 2010, the Women's Committee has also been publicized on the Theaterschiff Bremen through the monthly lecture and discussion event "Politika" on controversial issues in women's politics.
As when it was founded in 1946, concrete solutions to everyday problems of various women's groups have played an important role in the Bremen Women's Committee in recent years. Because of the knowledge of very negative experiences of women with the BagIs, the committee advocated the use of a woman in the counseling and legal education of pregnant women at the authority as well as for more flexible registration times for day-care centers than those specified by the responsible senator . Other examples are the advocacy of stable course fees at the adult education center , the increase of which as a result of funding cuts affects women with low incomes in particular as the main group of course participants so far, or the demand for changes in the law and interim solutions for free contraception for low-income recipients such as Bafög and Unemployment benefit II .
Representation in the Broadcasting Council since 1949
In line with its social importance of the received Bremer Women's Committee in 1949 newly established Broadcasting of Radio Bremen two of the then 19 seats. The committee women used their influence to set up a series of regular radio programs specifically for women. These had practical objectives as their content, but also the development of a general political awareness of women who, given the times and their social circumstances, mostly had little access to information.
The Broadcasting Council, which later grew to 36 delegates from particularly important groups in Bremen, was reduced to 26 members in 2008, among which the Bremen Women's Committee was represented with only one instead of two delegate votes. Because of this reduction in “women's votes” as well as the lack of a binding quota for equal participation of women in the Broadcasting Council as a whole, concerns about the new law were voiced on the part of the Bremen Women's Committee as well as on the part of the State Commissioner for Women . In 2010, 71% of the social groups represented in the Radio Bremen Broadcasting Council were represented by women.
The Bremen Women's Committee today
Goals, structure and scope of the association
In general, the Bremen Women's Committee has set itself the task of contributing to the further development of a democratic society in the sense of the equality of men and women anchored in the Basic Law . The tasks and goals of the non-profit association were made more precise with the amendment of its statutes in 2009. Since then, the goals have been to strengthen the representation of women in all areas of society, to deal with all issues of social life from the perspective of women and to improve the compatibility of work and family for women and men. In addition, the tasks of the women's committee include the independent livelihood security of women as well as their further education with the aim of strengthening their influence in politics, economy and society. A consistent implementation of the gender mainstreaming strategy is to be pursued in order to achieve gender equality .
The organization of the association to be embraced bodies a seven-member Executive Board, a Management Board, which also includes the chairs of all member associations and the Assembly of Delegates. The highest decision-making body is the delegates' assembly, to which the member associations send one to 12 delegates, graduated according to their number of members. In 2010 it comprised 70 delegates.
The association currently comprises around 40 women's associations and organizations across party, denominational and social boundaries from a broad spectrum of Bremen society with around 19,000 members.
Work of the women's committee
The Bremen Women's Committee sees itself as representing the interests of women in the state of Bremen and works closely with the Bremen State Commissioner for Women in this context . He is a member of the Broadcasting Council of Radio Bremen, in the ESF and ERDF accompanying committees of the EU , in the Friends of Wittheit zu Bremen , has guest status in the gender equality committee of the Bremen citizenship and also works in the Bremen Initiative Active Citizens' City (BIAB).
He is in cooperation with the German Women and the State Women's Councils of all states and participates in the annual conference of the Regional Women's Councils (KLFR) part. The women's committee works with the Senate and the Bremen citizenship . As part of his work in Bremen, he understands regular events with the member associations on current women's political issues, the development and maintenance of women's networks, cooperation with socially significant groups, public discussion events as well as press and public relations work. With submissions to the parliaments and ministries at federal level as well as at the level of the state of Bremen, the women's committee wants to ensure that the applications of individual associations are passed on to the responsible bodies as a political expression of will.
Bremen "Woman of the Year" and "Politika" series of events
The annual election of Bremen's “Woman of the Year” by the women's committee, which has been carried out since 1999, has attracted public attention in Bremen. The honoring of the award-winning woman will take place in a larger ceremony in the ballroom of the Bremen town hall or in the Bremen citizenship and will take place on March 8th, International Women's Day .
Since May 2010 the Women's Committee has been organizing the monthly lecture and discussion event “Politika” on controversial issues in women's politics on the Theaterschiff Bremen, to which a guest speaker is invited. The two-hour themed evenings moderated by the women's committee are an opportunity for exchange and discussion between those interested in women's politics and end with a chill-out music afterwards .
Appeal against the exclusion of women at the Schaffermahlzeit
In April 2010, the delegates' assembly of the Bremen Women's Committee passed a unanimously adopted appeal against the almost complete traditional exclusion of women at the Schaffermahlzeit in Bremen. The centuries-old feast, which is now considered to be one of the “most important social events in Germany” and to which around 100 top-class foreign guests from business, politics and society are invited by Bremen's business elite, has come under increasing public criticism since it was organized in 2009 in Bremen. A meeting initiated by the Weser-Kurier between the managing director of the Haus Seefahrt Foundation, which hosts the meal, and the Bremen State Commissioner for Women, aroused public expectations in July 2009 that this practice would change soon. However, they were disappointed with the Schaffermahlzeit in February 2010, which was once again a purely men's event.
A good two months later, the 70 delegates of the Bremen Women's Committee took this as an opportunity to appeal to the Bremen economic and captain elite organized in Haus Seefahrt . It is no longer acceptable that "the selection of guests for the Schaffermahlzeit persistently violates the principle of equality" of the Basic Law and the UN Charter of Human Rights. The foundation must enable women to participate in the Schaffermahl. The fact that she once invited Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Schaffermahlzeit is not enough. It is "deliberately overlooked" that there are now enough women performing important functions in business, politics and society. In the discussion of the application, it was also pointed out that new business connections would often arise at the Schaffermahlzeiten, but women were barred from such opportunities. The exclusion of women is justified with traditions. “Traditions are alive,” the appeal continues, “if they adapt to social change.” Otherwise they run the risk of degenerating into “museum values”. In principle, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled several years ago with regard to the legal status of traditions in relation to the constitutional equality requirement: “The traditional character of a living relationship alone is not sufficient for unequal treatment…. The constitutional requirement would lose its function of enforcing equality in the future if the social reality found had to be accepted. "
With the call, the Bremen Women's Committee is the second body in Bremen that carried out a political decision- making that went beyond the previous public discussion . This was preceded by a call from the SPD sub-district city of Bremen to Mayor Jens Böhrnsen , in his role as Senate President, to make use of his traditional right to propose guests at the Schaffermahlzeit and to invite women to the event in the future. Both applications were introduced and formulated by the ARSP in Bremen, which is also the organizer of the annual women's policy forum “ Schafferinnenmahl ”. In 2013, the citizens of Bremen passed a demand in this regard with the votes of the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party. Women have been invited since 2015.
Chairperson
| Period | 1st chairperson | 2nd chairman |
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| 1946-1947 | Irmgard Enderle (Member of the Bundestag SPD) | - |
| 1947-1948 | Charlotte Niehaus (Member of the Bundestag SPD) | - |
| 1949-1950 | Agnes Heineken (Member of the Bundestag FDP) | Anna Klara Fischer |
| 1951 | Anna Klara Fischer | - |
| 1952-1959 | Anna Stiegler (Member of the Bundestag SPD) | - |
| 1960/1961 | Dr. Gisela Müller-Wolff (Member of the Bundestag SPD) | - |
| 1961-1967 | Erika suggestion | Hanni Lohmann |
| 1967-1973 | Eva Schütte (Member of the Bundestag FDP) | Martha Hövelmann |
| 1973-1979 | Hannelore Spies (Member of the Bundestag CDU) | Rosemarie Steffen |
| 1979-1981 | Christine Beuthner | Alm tilt |
| 1981-1983 | Hannelore Spies (Member of the Bundestag CDU) | Dr. Anneliese Hentschel |
| 1983-1985 | Rosemarie Steffen | Inge Falldorf |
| 1985-1989 | Rosemarie Steffen | Ingeborg Menze |
| 1989-1991 | Ingeborg Menze | Dr. Erika Riemer Noltenius (DAB) |
| 1991-1995 | Dr. Erika Riemer Noltenius (DAB) | Rosemarie Albensoeder |
| 1995-1997 | Dr. Erika Riemer Noltenius (DAB) | Erika Morgenroth |
| 1998-2003 | Annedore Windler (CDU) | Ingeborg Sieling |
| 2003-2005 | Ingeborg Sieling | Waltraut Wedemeyer |
| 2005-2008 | Gisela Hülsbergen | Babara Wulff |
| 2009-2010 | Gisela Hülsbergen | Heidemarie Gniesmer |
| 2011-2017 | Annegret Ahlers (SPD) | Margareta Steinrücke (DGB) |
| 2017 | Perdita Engeler (Zonta Club Bremen) | Ingeborg Mesher ( Terre des Femmes ) |
| 2018 | Perdita Engeler (Zonta Club Bremen) | - |
| 2019 | Perdita Engeler (Zonta Club Bremen) | Andrea Buchelt (DAB) |
| 2019 | Andrea Buchelt (DAB) | Katharina Riebe (ASF) |
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Supplementary volume AZ. 1st edition, Edition Temmen , Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .
- Bremer Frauenstadtbuch 2005. (PDF; 937 kB) Ed .: Senator for Labor, Women, Health, Youth and Social Affairs and Bremen Central Office for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women, Bremen 2005.
- "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996.
- Renate Meyer-Braun: Women and the women's movement in Bremen during the 50s and 1960s. In: Christoph Butterwegge, Hans G. Jansen (Ed.): New social movements in an old city. Attempt to draw up a preliminary balance using the example of Bremen. Steintor, Bremen 1992, ISBN 3-926028-77-7 .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bremer-frauenausschuss.de/index.php/vorstand.html
- ↑ Radio Bremen Law (RGB): § 9 Composition of the Broadcasting Council (1) point 10. S. 6. (PDF; 492 kB)
- ↑ a b c POLITIKA - The new wave on the Weser. facebook . Retrieved January 2, 2011.
- ↑ Cecilie Eckler-von Gleich: On the history of the Bremen women's committee. In: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996. p. 12.
- ↑ We call you women! In: Weser-Kurier , March 16, 1946. Printed in: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 10.
- ↑ Cecilie Eckler-von Gleich: On the history of the Bremen women's committee. In: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 15f.
- ↑ a b Cecilie Eckler-von Gleich: On the history of the Bremen women's committee. In: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 11f.
- ↑ Cecilie Eckler-von Gleich: On the history of the Bremen women's committee. In: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 15 and p. 36.
- ↑ Cecilie Eckler-von Gleich: On the history of the Bremen women's committee. In: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 33.
- ↑ Cecilie Eckler-von Gleich: On the history of the Bremen women's committee. In: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 26f.
- ↑ Cecilie Eckler-von Gleich: On the history of the Bremen women's committee. In: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 35.
- ↑ Renate Meyer-Braun: 50 Years of the Bremen Women's Committee - Attempt to Appreciate. In: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 9.
- ↑ Cecilie Eckler-von Gleich: On the history of the Bremen women's committee. In: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 36.
- ↑ a b extra pages: Bremer Frauenausschuss e. V. directs clear demands to the new Senate. (PDF; 32 kB)
- ↑ bfa press releases: Decision of the entire board of the Bremen Women's Committee of October 18, 2007 on the purely male occupation of the State Court. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ^ Staatsgerichtshof.bremen.de: The members. The incumbent judges. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
- ↑ a b Frauke Fischer: Jens Böhrnsen should propose women . In: Weser-Kurier , April 17, 2010, p. 13.
- ↑ a b c Edith Laudowicz: Bremen Women's Committee: You interfere. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bremen.de, April 29, 2010; Retrieved January 12, 2011.
- ^ A b Edith Laudowicz: New board in the Bremen women's committee. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bremen.de, May 12, 2009; Retrieved December 27, 2010.
- ↑ Cecilie Eckler-von Gleich: On the history of the Bremen women's committee. In: "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 23f.
- ↑ On the women's quota regulation of the Broadcasting Council see: Radio Bremen Law (RGB): § 10 Election and term of office of the members of the Broadcasting Council (3) p. 11. (PDF; 492 kB)
- ↑ frauenseiten.bremen: Pros and Cons: A sentence with an X - was it really nothing? The new version of the Radio Bremen Law from a women's political point of view. January 25, 2008. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 19 of the current 26 members of the Broadcasting Council are women. Radio Bremen website: The members of the Broadcasting Council. Accessed May 27, 2010.
- ↑ a b statutes of the Bremen Women's Committee e. V. § 2. (new version entered in the register of associations on October 28, 2009) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 339.3 kB) accessed January 12, 2011
- ^ Website of the Bremen Women's Committee: Member associations in the Bremen Women's Committee. Accessed May 25, 2010.
- ↑ a b c d Women demand participation in the Schaffermahl. Delegates take on Haus Seefahrt: the selection of guests violates the Basic Law. In: Weser-Kurier , April 25, 2010.
- ↑ a b website of the Bremen Women's Committee: What we do. Accessed May 25, 2010.
- ^ Website of the Bremen Women's Committee: Who we are. Accessed May 25, 2010.
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↑ Bremen Woman of the Year is a soup angel. In: Weser-Kurier , March 9, 2010.
Riemer-Noltenius is Bremen Woman of the Year . In: taz , March 9, 2009.
Website of the Bremen Women's Committee: Woman of the Year. Accessed May 25, 2010. - ↑ Bernd Klose: Friday, February 13, 2009 → 18.08: 465th Schaffermahl. ( PDF ; 395 kB) In: Program week from February 9, 2009 to February 15, 2009. Nordwestradio , accessed on May 25, 2010 .
- ↑ A meeting with a surprise effect. Encounters in Bremen: The state women's representative Ulrike Hauffe meets the head of Haus Seefahrt, Michael Schroiff. In: Weser-Kurier , Bremen, July 10, 2009, p. 11.
- ↑ Schaffermahl remains a purely men's event. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Weser-Kurier , January 7, 2010.
- ^ In: Peter Badura: Staatsrecht. Systematic explanation of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany. 3. rework. Edition, CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-51445-6 .
- ↑ Frauke Fischer: Women made it. In: Weser-Kurier of July 11, 2014, p. 7.
- ↑ "We call you women!" 50 years of the Bremen Women's Committee. Published by the Bremen Women's Committee, Bremen 1996, p. 46.
