Dora Garbade

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Dora Garbade (born March 22, 1893 in Schwachhausen (Bremen), † December 7, 1981 in Bremen ) was a country woman and an important pioneer of the country women movement in Lower Saxony .

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Gesine Mathilde Julie Theodore Depken, known as Dora Garbade , was the eldest daughter of seven children of Johann Depken and Julie, née Weyrauch. Her father came from the Depkens dynasty, who headed the Bremen Chamber of Agriculture for many years . Her grandfather Johann Depken was a member of the German Reichstag. Dora Garbade attended a "secondary school for girls" and later learned housekeeping in Hessen. In 1919 she married the landowner Hermann Garbade from Bremen-Hastedt and became the mother of daughter Julia (1921). Together with her husband she managed the former noble estate Nutzhorn near Schierbrok ( Ganderkesee ), with grain and tobacco cultivation, as well as dairy, chicken and pig breeding.

Dora Garbade has been committed to a better life for women in rural areas for decades. She was a member of the commission for apprentices of the Oldenburg Chamber of Agriculture and has trained one hundred rural home economics apprentices since 1926. She was elected as the only female member of the board of the Weser-Ems Chamber of Agriculture and founded the first agricultural housewives 'association in Delmenhorst in 1927 , today the rural women' s association (VHL). The aim was to offer rural women better training. From 1948, as long-term chairwoman, she developed the Weser-Ems rural women 's association into a powerful “women's lobby”. From 1960 onwards Garbade helped to build up the Evangelical Village Helpers in Lower Saxony , which supports families in emergency situations. She died on December 7, 1981 at the age of 88 in Bremen.

Awards

Dora Garbade received several awards for her commitment:

In 1956 she received the Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Federal Cross of Merit ) and the golden badge of honor of the Lower Saxony rural people.

In 1963 she received the Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit. In the same year she received the Golden Bee of the German Rural Women's Association and was honored with the Thaer-Thúnen Medal in silver.

In 2013 she was honored in Ganderkesee with a " Frauenort " Lower Saxony.

In 2015, the Lower Saxony Rural Women's Association launched the Dora Garbade Prize in her honor .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cosima Bellersen Quirini: 77 traces of women in Lower Saxony . Gmeiner-Verlag, Messkirch 2020, ISBN 978-3-8392-6216-0 ( google.es [accessed on May 28, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Award for Dora Garbade - Scene Northwest. In: Radio Bremen. March 26, 2013, accessed on May 28, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Simone Becker: Between energy and drinkability. In: Weser Courier. March 23, 2013, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ womens places lower saxony | Dora Garbade. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Garbade, Dora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German country woman and important pioneer of the country woman movement in Lower Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwachhausen (Bremen)
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1981
Place of death Bremen