Elisabeth Ganslandt

Anna Elisabeth Ganslandt , b. Hasse (also: Haße) (* May 21, 1856 in Weißenfels ; † December 9, 1945 in Einbeck ) was a German women's rights activist and in 1919 one of the first six women elected to the 72-member city ​​council of Kassel .

family

Her parents were Friedrich Ernst Hasse and his wife Ana von Reinhard. Her husband was Wilhelm (Willi) Karl August Ganslandt (August 25, 1844 in Rinteln - June 24, 1895 in Bad Ems ), who came from a well-respected Lübeck merchant family , an internationally active businessman and at times German consul in Aden . His first marriage in Kassel in 1880 was Aennie Hasse (* 1860), who died three months after the marriage on December 11, 1880 in Aden. Then he married her older sister Elisabeth on May 30, 1883 in Kassel, with whom he moved to London , where he worked as a merchant. The three children born in London, Aennie Marie Emma Maud Ganslandt (* 1884), Walter Ernst Ganslandt (* 1886, † 1914 in the internment camp in Sebdou , Algeria ) and Herbert Ganslandt (* 1888; † 1949 in Bielefeld ) came from this marriage . In 1898 the family moved to Kassel

Act

Elisabeth Ganslandt got involved in various charitable institutions. For a long time she was the chairman of the local milk kitchen and the sick kitchen as well as the Kassel section chairman of the Vaterländischer Frauenverein ("German Women's Association for Care and Help for Wounded During War"), which was mainly active in welfare and nursing care and in Kassel in particular the establishment of the Red -Kreuz - Hospital in Wehlheiden in 1875 and the lung sanatorium in Oberkaufungen , which opened in 1900 . During the war years 1914–1918 , the Kassel Association cared for numerous war wounded, which was particularly important to Elisabeth Ganslandt because of the fate of her two sons: Walter, trainee lawyer at the German Consulate General in Tangier ( Morocco ), died on October 3, 1914 in a French internment camp in Algeria, and Herbert, who had visited his brother in Tangier shortly before the outbreak of war, was interned in various camps in France from October 10, 1914 until his release on October 20, 1919 .

Ganslandt was also active in the German-Evangelical Women's Association (DEFB) , founded in Kassel in 1899 , which campaigned for equal access to education and work for girls and women, and as early as 1902 set up a home for industrial workers, the Marienheim, in Kassel and on it Initiative 1909 a children's home was opened, which was expanded within a few years to the children's hospital Park Schönfeld .

Ganslandt, now well known in Kassel, was one of the first six women to be elected to the Kassel city council in 1919 after the active and passive right to vote for women had been introduced in Germany on November 12, 1918. The German Democratic Party (DDP) provided three of them: Johanna Wäscher , Julie von Kästner and Elisabeth Ganslandt. Minna Bernst and Amalie Wündisch moved into the city parliament for the SPD , Elisabeth Consbruch for the German National People's Party (DNVP) . As a member of parliament, Ganslandt helped shape Kassel's local politics for one legislative period.

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://www.genealogy.ganslandt.de/gen15_2.html
2. ↑ http://www.genealogy.ganslandt.de/gen16_2.html
3. ↑ StadtA KS Fonds S 1 No 103
4. ↑ A look at 150 years of women's movement history in Kassel , in: Info for Friends and Donors of the Archives of the German Women's Movement , No. 36, November 2012, pp. 4–5
5. ^ Gunther Mai: The Morocco Germans 1873-1018; Short biographies. (urn: nbn: de: gbv: 547-201400441), p. 30
6. ↑ http://www.ilelongue14-18.eu/details.php?id=1124&language=de

Web links

• 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 ( hna.de ). (accessed on June 3, 2020)

literature

• Gilla Dölle, Cornelia Hamm-Mühl and 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 .
• Jochen Lengemann: Citizens' Representation and City Government in Kassel 1835–2006. A manual, part 2 . (= Publications of the Kulturstiftung der Kasseler Sparkasse. Vol. 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 60,2). Elwert, Marburg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86354-135-4 .