Eleonore Kujawa

Eleonore Kujawa (born November 3, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German educator , trade unionist and civil rights activist .

pedagogue

As a primary school teacher, Eleonore Kujawa worked from 1964 to 1985 in the New Education Working Group and, as chairman of the Wedding District Parents Committee , she was instrumental in drafting a new School Constitution Act that came into force in 1974. In 1970 she became the principal of the Gottfried Röhl elementary school in Wedding, making her the youngest head of school in Berlin. She was particularly interested in educating the pupils in their commitment to peace and the environment.

Unionist

She has been actively involved in the Education and Science Union (GEW) since 1970, first in the committee of the elementary schools section, then on the main board. Here she took on a management function that was previously considered a male domain. From 1974 to 1977 Eleonore Kujawa was state chairwoman of the GEW Berlin and thus the first woman ever to become chairwoman of a state association within the German Federation of Trade Unions . She advocated a more open trade union policy in order to lead the GEW out of party-political bloc thinking. From 1977 to 1982 Eleonore Kujawa was then chairwoman of the elementary schools department in the GEW, and from 1980 to 1986 she worked on the staff council for teachers and educators.

Peace and human rights

Eleonore Kujawa has been a member of the International League for Human Rights eV since 1973, and was on its board from 1974 to 1998. In 1975 she and others founded the League's Anti-Fascist Committee in response to the first public appearances of right-wing extremists at football games. On the same occasion, she initiated and organized city tours from 1981 to places of fascism and anti-fascist resistance in West Berlin. In 1978 she co-founded the Reinickendorf Peace Initiative and in 1980 the Berlin Initiative for International Compensation and Security, which campaigned against nuclear armament and missile deployment. She was co-organizer and co-initiator of the Krefeld appeal . She was also involved in founding the Active Museum Fascism and Resistance Association in Berlin in 1979/80, as well as in developing the concept for the exhibition “ Topography of Terror ”. From 1988 to 1991 Eleonore Kujawa was President of the International League for Human Rights .

Private

In 1945, when the war ended, Eleonore Kujawa was 14 years old. After her husband died in 1969, she became a single mother to her daughter, who was born in 1962.

swell

• Berlin - city of women
• Women move Berlin; Eleonore Kujawa "Not for school, we learn for life ..."
• The feminist archive
• Eleonore K .: "You don't see hunger", in: Kriegskinder '45, ten survival stories collected and written down by Detlef Mittag, Berlin State Center for Political Education, Berlin 2016 (2nd edition), pp. 66–83