Elisabeth Mahla

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Elisabeth Mahla (born May 25, 1889 in Landau in the Palatinate ; † September 8, 1974 there ) was a German women's rights activist .

Life

Mahla came from a long-established and respected family in the city of Landau in the Palatinate. Her father Friedrich August Mahla II (1860–1944) was the city's mayor from 1905 to 1920. Grandfather Friedrich August Mahla and great-grandfather Friedrich Mahla had previously held this position. She attended the secondary school for girls in Landau, which later became the Max Slevogt Gymnasium .

Elisabeth Mahla has been involved in the women's movement since 1915 , initially in the Patriotic Women's Association and its reconstitution, after the ban during the time of National Socialism , as the German Women's Ring , she was its founding member at the federal level and until 1955 she was chairwoman of the Rhineland-Palatinate state association. She was socially committed in many ways. Since 1918 she has been in charge of the program for feeding children in the Palatinate region, known as Quaker feeding .

After 1945 she got involved on a non-partisan basis for strengthening democracy in Rhineland-Palatinate and for women's rights . The city of Landau made her an honorary citizen in 1959 . She left the villa built by her father in Landau and her fortune in the city for cultural and social purposes.

literature

  • Hedwig Brüchert : Elisabeth Mahla. In: Rhineland-Palatinate women. Women in politics, society, economy and culture in the early years of Rhineland-Palatinate. Mainz 2001 (Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 23), p. 282 ff.
  • Mary Elizabeth Torrance Buchanan: World Directory of Women's Organizations. London 1953
  • Hans Hess: On the 80th birthday of Mrs. Elisabeth Mahla. In: Landau monthly books. 17, 1969, 5. pp. 25-29
  • Doris Schubert: Women in the German Post-War Era. Women's Policy 1945-1949. 1986, ISBN 3-590-18029-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Landau in the Palatinate: Honorary Citizen Accessed on August 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mahla, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1974
Place of death Landau in the Palatinate