Charlotte Walner-von Deuten

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Charlotte Walner von Deuten (born March 19, 1906 in Hamburg ; † November 7, 1984 there ) was a German lawyer, women's rights activist and member of the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD .

Life

Charlotte von Deuten successfully completed the first Hamburg high school graduate course, which she attended together with the future Hamburg mayor Paul Nevermann . She studied law and political science at the Universities of Hamburg, Geneva and Grenoble . In 1929 she passed her first state examination, and in 1932 the second. From 1933 she started working as a lawyer.

In 1939 she married the painter and graphic artist Felix Walner (1906–1981). Until 1933 she was involved in the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband, above all for artists. At her suggestion, the emergency aid for visual artists in Hamburg was founded in 1933 .

After the war , Charlotte Walner-von Deuten campaigned increasingly for the bourgeois women's movement. From 1948 to 1950 she was chairwoman of the Hamburg women's ring , to which the Hamburg women's organizations had come together, and a member of the board of the German women's ring.

politics

Walner's grave ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery, Hamburg

From 1953 to 1966 Walner-von Deuten was a member of the Hamburg parliament for the SPD. There, too, she mainly campaigned for more rights for women, although the Hamburg Parliament only had a small influence on the decisive federal laws on these issues by influencing public opinion and participating in the Federal Council. She criticized the man's sole right of decision, which at the time stipulated all questions relating to marital life . This ranged from property issues to the right to determine the whereabouts of children together to the right of women to take up work outside the home. She criticized the behavior of the representative of Hamburg in the Bundesrat, who in 1957 agreed without contradiction to the submission of the law on equality between men and women in the field of civil law , although essential parts of her demands were not included in it. In your opinion, he could have achieved a text that would become more just for women with an objection.

She also belonged to the university advisory board of the University of Hamburg, was a deputy member of the Hamburg judges' selection committee and a member of the legal policy committee of the SPD party executive in Bonn .

She died in 1984. Her nephews fulfilled the wish in her will to preserve my husband's life's work for posterity in an appropriate manner and in 1990 founded the Charlotte Walner-von Deuten Foundation .

Felix Walner and Charlotte Walner-von Deuten were buried in Hamburg on the Ohlsdorf cemetery in grid square Bm 63 (north of Chapel 12) (next to it is the grave of Deuten ).

Works

  •  Handbook of the private and public social, youth and health facilities in Hamburg . Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 1966

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography Felix Walner
  2. ↑ Detailed biography of Felix Walner by Maike Bruhns in the Rump family (ed.): Der neue Rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , pp. 493–494
  3. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Walner-von Deuten, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Interpret, Charlotte von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, women's rights activist and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1984
Place of death Hamburg