Camilla Jellinek

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Camilla Jellinek (born Wertheim * 24. September 1860 in Vienna , Empire of Austria ; † 5. October 1940 in Heidelberg ) was an Austrian, acting in Heidelberg suffragette .

family

Grave site of Camilla Jellinek and her husband Georg Jellinek in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof in the (Dept. D), in the section of professors

Camilla Jellinek was a daughter of the dermatologist at the University of Vienna Gustav Wertheim (1822–1888) and Wilhelmine Walcher. In 1883 she married the lawyer Georg Jellinek . The couple had six children, four of whom reached adulthood. Walter Jellinek became a lawyer like his father; the daughter Dora Busch was deported to Theresienstadt in January 1944 , survived the ghetto and returned to school in 1946; the youngest son Otto died in 1943 as a result of the abuse by the Gestapo .

Life

From 1875 to 1877 she attended the higher education school of the Vienna Women's Acquisition Association , the first recognized middle school for girls in Vienna.

Under the influence of Marianne Weber , one of the leading women's rights activists of the time, Jellinek joined the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine at the age of forty . Between 1900 and 1933 she worked as the head of the legal commission of the Federation of German Women's Associations in Heidelberg and was elected its chairman in 1907.

Her interest and her commitment were above all legal questions, the abolition of § 218 , the rights of illegitimate children and citizenship for women.

A large number of women seeking advice in those days worked as waitresses, which at the time was considered disreputable and was often seen in the "twilight" of prostitution . This became the occasion for Camilla Jellinek to deal intensively with the problems of these women. In her articles she tried to draw the public's attention to the poor working conditions and the exploitation of women who work as waitresses. With the help of a fundraiser and a city grant, she finally founded a women's home for waitresses in 1907. In 1915 Camilla Jellinek became a member of the board of directors of the Federation of German Women's Associations.

Georg and Camilla Jellinek's final resting place is in the Bergfriedhof (Heidelberg) in the so-called “Professors Row”, Department D, Row 1, 309. The tomb, a large granite menhir 2.60 meters high , has simple name plaque made of bronze , which bears the names and dates of the couple in letters. Her granddaughter, doctor Barbara Jellinek (1917–1997), a daughter of her son Walter, rests in the same grave.

Honors

On the occasion of her 70th birthday in 1930, Camilla Jellinek was awarded an honorary doctorate by the law faculty of Heidelberg University , the Doctor iuris utriusque , for her commitment and tireless commitment to women's rights.

Fonts (selection)

  • § 218 , 1905
  • Women's demands for criminal law reform , 1908
  • The female waitress in the catering trade , 1909
  • The criminal law reform and §§ 218 u. 219 StGB . In: Monthly for criminal psychology and criminal law reform , Vol. 5, 1909
  • Petition by the Federation of German Women's Associations for the Reform of the Criminal Code , 1909
  • Petition by German women regarding the prohibition of female service in restaurants and bars , 1910

literature

  • Manfred Berger : Who was ... Camilla Jellinek? In: Social magazine 2000 / H. 7-8, pp. 6-8.
  • Ilona Scheidle: Humanize the rights of men. Camilla Jellinek (1860-1940) . In: Heidelberg women who made history . Munich 2006, pp. 91-101.
  • Marion Röwekamp: Lawyers - Lexicon on life and work. Deutscher Juristinnenbund e. V. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005.
  • Klaus Kempter : Camilla Jellinek and the women's movement in Heidelberg . In: Marianne Weber. Contributions to work and person. Meurer, Bärbel (eds.), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004.
  • Klaus Kempter : The Jellineks 1820–1955. A family-biographical study on the German-Jewish educated middle class (writings of the Federal Archives 52), Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-1606-8 .
  • Klaus Kempter : Jellinek, Camilla , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 278f.
  • Jellinek Camilla. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 101.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bärbel Meurer (ed.): Marianne Weber. Contributions to work and person. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, p. 112.
  2. ↑ Susanne Omran: Women's movement and “Jewish question”: Discourses on race and gender after 1900. Campus, Dortmund 1999, p. 163.
  3. ↑ L. Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages . Verlag Regionalkultur, 2008, p. 135.
  4. ^ Martin Tielke: Barbara Elisabeth Jellinek. (PDF) East Frisian Landscape, p. 2 , accessed on January 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Beatrix Geisel: Patriarchal legal norms "undermined". The legal protection associations of the first German women's movement . In: Ute Gerhard (ed.): Women in the history of law. From early modern times to the present . Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42866-5 , p. 683-697, here 697 .
personal data
SURNAME Jellinek, Camilla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wertheim, Camilla (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1940
Place of death Heidelberg