Elisabeth Consbruch

Elisabeth Consbruch (born January 7, 1863 in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) ; † May 20, 1938 in Kassel ) was a German educator and women's rights activist and in 1919 one of the six first women elected to the 72-member city council of Kassel.

Life

Her parents were Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Consbruch (1820–1887), most recently Royal Prussian Privy Councilor of Justice and until 1886 President of the Kassel Higher Regional Court , and his wife Maria geb. Sonnenschmidt (1837-1909). After attending school in Celle and from 1879 in Kassel, she was intensively involved in charitable associations of all kinds. She worked in the women's association for nursing, was a teacher at Sunday school and in 1895 founded the virgin association St. Martin an der Martinskirche , forerunner of the Christian association for young girls in Kassel.

In June 1899 she was a co-founder of the German Evangelical Women's Association (DEFB), as secretary of one of the five women on the main board and until 1931 also head of the Kassel local group. In addition, she was deputy chairwoman of the municipal employment agency for female job seekers, which had been taken over in April 1902 by the "Verband Casseler Frauenvereine" (VCF). Shortly before, eight Kassel women's associations had come together in the VCF at the suggestion and chaired by Auguste Förster (1848–1926), and Consbruch later succeeded Förster as chairwoman of the association. In the "Association of Professional Workers of the Inner Mission of the Evangelical Church" founded in 1902, Consbruch was elected head of the permanent working group "Youth care and word proclamation" at the conference for drafting the constitution of the association. The DEFB, however, was her greatest commitment from 1899. As early as 1902 the Kassel DEFB opened a home for industrial workers, the Marienheim. In 1909, on the initiative of Elisabeth Consbruch's DEFB local group and the physician Felix Blumenfeld, a children's home was opened, which within a few years became the Park Schönfeld Children's Hospital .

After the active and passive right to vote for women had been introduced in Germany on November 12, 1918, Consbruch, well-known beyond the borders of Kassel, ran for election to the National Assembly on January 19, 1919 on the list of the German National People's Party (DNVP) - albeit unsuccessfully. Six weeks later, on March 2, 1919, she was elected city councilor for the DNVP in Kassel. She was active in the city parliament for a total of three legislative periods up to February 4, 1933 and was also an honorary (unpaid) city councilor from October 17, 1927 to December 17, 1929.

Honor

On the Marbachshöhe in Kassel- Wilhelmshöhe a street is named after her. There you will also find the women Minna Bernst , Julie von Kästner , Johanna Wäscher and Amalie Wündisch, who were elected to the city council in 1919 , and streets named after the first Kassel city councilor Johanna Vogt , who was also elected in 1919 .

Footnotes

↑ The association was founded in 1902 by representatives of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie mother house , the German Evangelical Women's Association, the Inner Mission and the Evangelical Virgins Associations (Ursula Röper, Carola Jülli (ed.): Die Macht der Naheliebe : One Hundred and Fifty Years of Inner Mission and Diakonie 1848–1998 . 2nd unchanged edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-17-019196-9 , pp. 149 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 8, 2020]). ).

↑ Christa Paulini: "Service to the people as a whole is not a class struggle": The professional associations of social workers in the change of social work . (= Siegen studies on women's studies. 8). Leske + Budrich, Opladen, and Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3127-5 , p. 178. (books.google.com)

Web links

Consbruch, Elisabeth. In: Hessian biography. (LAGIS)
100 year anniversary: "Women of Cassels, you have to vote!" "Cassel's new men": This is how the region reacted to women's suffrage. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . November 12, 2018 (accessed June 3, 2020)

literature

Gilla Dölle, Cornelia Hamm-Mühl, Leonie Wagner: Women's elections: The female city councilors in Kassel 1919–1933. (= Series of publications of the archive of the German women's movement ). Archive of the German Women's Movement, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-926068-08-6 , pp. 57–60.
Jochen Lengemann : Citizens' Representation and City Government in Kassel 1835–2006. (Historical Commission for Hesse). Elwert, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86354-135-4 , pp. 190f.

personal data
SURNAME	Consbruch, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educator and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 7, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 1938
Place of death	kassel

[1] The association was founded in 1902 by representatives of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie mother house , the German Evangelical Women's Association, the Inner Mission and the Evangelical Virgins Associations (Ursula Röper, Carola Jülli (ed.): Die Macht der Naheliebe : One Hundred and Fifty Years of Inner Mission and Diakonie 1848–1998 . 2nd unchanged edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-17-019196-9 , pp. 149 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 8, 2020]). ).

[2] Christa Paulini: "Service to the people as a whole is not a class struggle": The professional associations of social workers in the change of social work . (= Siegen studies on women's studies. 8). Leske + Budrich, Opladen, and Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3127-5 , p. 178. (books.google.com)