German Women's Council

German Women's Council (DF) - Lobby of Women in Germany V.
legal form	Registered association
purpose	Advocacy
Seat	Berlin, Germany
founding	1951
President	Mona Küppers
Manager	Anja Nordmann
Members	60 associations ; (as of June 2018)
Organization type	German umbrella organization
Website	www.frauenrat.de

The German Women's Council (DF) - Lobby of Women in Germany e. V. is a German umbrella organization of women's organizations based in Berlin . It is an association of around 60 nationally active women's organizations. This includes denominational associations, professional associations as well as the women's groups of the democratic, political parties , the trade unions and the German Olympic Sports Confederation . In addition, non-denominational and non-partisan organizations with diverse social and political tasks. The DF represents around 12 million women, making it the largest women's political lobby in Germany. The association has been chaired by Mona Küppers since 2016 .

history

As the umbrella organization for women's political interests, the DF sees itself in the tradition of the Federation of German Women's Associations (BDF) founded in 1894 . This dissolved in 1933 to avoid being brought into line by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).

In 1951 fourteen women’s associations at federal level formed the “Information Service for Women’s Issues”. V. “together. This association was supported by the women's departments of the British and American high commissioners. Initially, individual representatives and not associations were members of the federal association. With the participation of representatives of the women's departments of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB) and the German Employees' Union (DAG), a reconciliation between the liberal-bourgeois and socialist women's movement paved the way.

German special postage stamp from 1994

Seven years later, the alliance changed radically. Now the organizations as a whole have become members of the “Information Service and Action Group of German Women's Associations and Women's Groups Mixed Associations e. V. "added. The activities could only be decided unanimously. This weakened assertiveness, as it was only possible to act on the basis of the lowest common denominator. In 1969 the association changed its name to Deutscher Frauenrat - Federal Association of German Women's Associations and Women's Groups of Mixed Associations. V.

Since 1984 the general assembly of the DF has decided with simple majorities which demands the umbrella organization should advance to the government, parliament, parties or other institutions as the “women's lobby”.

The German Women's Council is entered in the list of interest groups in the German Bundestag. He is co-founder of the European Women's Lobby in Brussels and, as a non-governmental organization (NGO), enjoys special advisory status at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations . He also represents - together with the Association of German Women Entrepreneurs - Germany in Women20 , the dialogue process of female civil society that accompanies the negotiations of the G20 countries.

aims

According to its own account, the DF advocates the common interests of its member associations in politics and the public while at the same time preserving their independence, in order to give weight to the concerns of women in the Federal Republic of Germany and to enforce them.

He advocates the improvement of the position of women in the family, professional and working world, politics and society as well as the promotion of civic education to secure democracy, tolerance and international cooperation. The aim of his commitment is the legal and factual equality of women and men in all areas of life, as guaranteed by Article 3 paragraph 2 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (GG).

Members

The umbrella association had 60 member associations nationwide in June 2018. The founding associations of 1951 include:

Chairperson

Nora Melle (1951-1959)
Gertrud Ehrle (1960–1970)
Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (1970–1973)
Maria Weber (1973–1974, 1976–1978)
Irmgard von Meibom (1974–1976, 1978–1980)
Helga Thieme (1980–1984)
Irmgard Blättel (1984–1988)
Brunhilde Fabricius (1988-1992)
Irmgard Jalowy (1992–1996)
Helga Schulz (1996-2000)
Inge von Bönninghausen (2000-2004)
Brunhilde Raiser (2004-2008)
Marlies Brouwers (2008–2012)
Hannelore Buls (2012-2016)
Mona Küppers (since 2016)

Publications

From the re-establishment in 1951, the association's own information magazine appeared plus various supplements called Informations für die Frau , which was published from 1999 under the title:

Women's Council: information for women; Information service of the German Women's Council - Women's Lobby - Federal Association of Women's Associations and Women's Groups of Mixed Associations in Germany V. ( ISSN 1438-3667 )

was launched. The magazine was discontinued at the end of 2015.

literature

Angela Icken: The German Women's Council. Established women's association work in times of social change. (Zugl .: Dortmund, Univ., Diss., 2002 udT: Icken, Angela: Der Deutsche Frauenrat, Lobby der Frauen) Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3600-5 .
Robert Schreiber, Marianne Grunwald, Carol Hagemann-White : Women's associations and women's associations in the Federal Republic of Germany. Series of publications by the Federal Ministry for Women and Youth - Volume 16. With the collaboration of Elke Struß, Marion Göhler, Kai Westerburg (table part), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-17-013726-3 .
Gudrun Beckmann-Kircher: The German women's council: communication structure and behavior of an association. Works from the Institute for Journalism at the University of Münster - Volume 28. (Zugl .: Münster (Westphalia), Univ., Diss.) Regensberg, Münster 1981, ISBN 3-7923-0477-5 .
Irene Stoehr, Rita Pawlowski: The unfinished democracy , 50 years of “Information for Women” (PDF; 1.78 MB), Berlin 2002.

Web links

Official website of the German Women's Council
German Women's Council in the Archive of the German Women's Movement Foundation

Individual evidence

↑ https://www.frauenrat.de/lobby/vorstand/mona-kueppers/
^ German Women's Council: Opinion on the draft law to set up an engagement foundation. December 9, 2019, accessed December 9, 2019 .
↑ German Women's Council e. V., Berlin: German Women's Council | Mona Küppers. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
^ Council of German Women - European Women's Lobby. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
↑ German Women's Council. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
↑ German Women's Council e. V., Berlin: German Women's Council | Statute. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
↑ German Women's Council e. V., Berlin: German Women's Council | Members. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
↑ German Women's Council e. V., Berlin: German Women's Council | History. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
^ Literature from the German Women's Council in the catalog of the German National Library

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[4] Council of German Women - European Women's Lobby. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .

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