German Association of Rural Women

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German Rural Women's Association
(dlv)
legal form registered association
founding October 20, 1948
Seat Berlin, GermanyGermanyGermany 
main emphasis Advocacy
Chair Petra Bentkämper
Managing directors Daniela calm
Members 412,525 (2018)
Website www.landfrauen.info
50 years of the German Rural Women's Association: German postage stamp from 1998

The Deutsche Landfrauenverband (dlv) (spelling Deutscher LandFrauenverband ) is a nationwide association by and for women in rural areas . It was founded on October 20, 1948 .

Goals and Activities

The women in the dlv advocate “the professional interests of women farmers and the improvement of the social, economic and legal situation of women as well as the compatibility of family and work”. In the past, mainly women who had a direct connection to agriculture were members of the rural women. Also because the job description of the "farmer" has become increasingly rare, women from all professions and age groups can now be found among the members.

The German Rural Women Association has 22 regional associations, each of which is divided into district and local associations. A total of almost 500,000 women are members of the dlv. The umbrella organization is headed by the Presidium, a body elected by the General Assembly, currently headed by Petra Bentkämper as President. In 2019, she replaced Brigitte Scherb , who had previously held this position for 12 years. The federal office is based in Berlin. The German Rural Women Association is a member of the German Women's Council and the European Movement Network . The bee is the heraldic animal of the association.

The dlv organizes training courses and events for rural women in various areas at different levels. This includes, for example, the training of volunteers for association work, the qualification of equal pay consultants or further training in the areas of self-employment and business start-ups, agricultural policy , housekeeping , nutrition, health and others.

The German Rural Women's Association signed the Berlin Declaration in 2011 and is involved in the equal pay campaign for equal pay and parity in parliaments. With the nationwide campaign “Women! Vote!”, The dlv campaigned for the introduction of a quota for filling the self-governing bodies on the occasion of the social elections in 2013 and 2017.

The German Rural Women's Association is also active internationally. With the support of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the dlv has been involved in Ghana since 2017 with the aim of empowering women smallholders in Ghana.

history

The history of the country women goes back to the landlady Elisabet Boehm . In Rastenburg in East Prussia, she founded the first agricultural housewives' association in 1898. Elisabet Boehm saw her motivation for founding the company in improving the living and working conditions of women in rural areas through domestic and cultural education and to enable them to receive further training. As part of the takeover of power by the Nazi Party in 1934, the agricultural housewife associations were dissolved and the Reich incorporated.

After the end of the Second World War, the first rural women's associations were re-established as successor organizations to the agricultural housewives' associations as early as 1947. On the initiative of Marie-Luise Countess Leutrum zu Ertingen , rural women's associations from Württemberg-Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Hessen-Nassau and Kurhessen, Lower Saxony-Hanover, Weser-Ems, Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein and the Rhenish region joined forces on October 20, 1948 Rural women's association to form the German Rural Women's Association. After 1989, rural women's associations were also founded in the eastern German states, which joined the German rural women's association between 1991 and 1993.

Presidents

Regional associations

Members of the German regional association are 22 regional rural women’s association with around 430 district and more than 12,000 local associations.

  • Country women group in the Bavarian farmers' association
  • Country Women's Association Berlin
  • Brandenburg Rural Women Association
  • State Women's Association Bremen
  • State Women's Association Hamburg
  • State Women's Association of Hesse
  • State women's association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Lower Saxony Women's Association of Hanover
  • State Women's Association Palatinate
  • Rural Women’s Association of Rheinhessen
  • Rhenish Country Women’s Association
  • Rhineland-Nassau Women's Association
  • SaarLand Women’s Association
  • Saxon Country Women Association
  • State Women's Association of Saxony-Anhalt
  • State Women's Association of Schleswig-Holstein
  • Country Women's Association South Baden
  • Thuringian Rural Women Association
  • Country Women’s Association Weser-Ems
  • Westphalian-Lippian country women association
  • State Women's Association Württemberg-Baden
  • State Women's Association of Württemberg-Hohenzollern

literature

  • Christina Schwarz: The rural women movement in Germany: On the history of a women's organization with special consideration of the years 1898 to 1933. Society for Folklore Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 1990, ISBN 978-3-926052-08-7 .
  • Deutscher LandFrauenverband eV: Committed to the countryside. 1998
  • Anke Sawahn: The country women's lobby . The rural women movement in Germany and its functionaries 1898 to 1948. DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-7690-0731-2 . review

See also

Web links

  • Homepage German Rural Women Association

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual Report 2018 - Retrieved October 5, 2019
  2. ^ Berlin declaration. Retrieved on February 14, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ Equal Pay Day. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ More women in German parliaments. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Women Networks: Time to empower women on their way through political institutions. Retrieved on February 14, 2019 (German).
  6. ^ Rural women in Ghana: sharing knowledge, empowering women. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .