Elisabeth Seifahrt

Elisabeth Elenore Christiane Auguste Ida Mathilde Seifahrt (born September 2, 1860 in Hombergshausen near Homberg , † January 17, 1933 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg politician of the DDP and a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life and politics

Memorial stone in the women's garden

Seifahrt came to Hamburg as a child and first attended a private school. From 1877 to 1879 she attended the preparatory institute (preparatory course for the teachers 'seminar) and in 1879/80 the teachers' seminar. From April 1, 1880, she taught in the Hamburg Volksschuldienst on probation and was then employed on April 1, 1885. Until her retirement in 1924 she worked as a primary school teacher. She was never married and lived with her sister, also a teacher, for most of her life.

In 1893 she founded the “Association of Hamburg Elementary School Teachers”, which she chaired until 1924. At the same time, from 1921 to 1927, she was deputy federal chairwoman of the “General German Teachers' Association”.

She sat for the DDP from 1919 to 1927 in the Hamburg parliament. During this time she sat on almost all school boards and was of the opinion that all schools should be nationalized. She was a member of the high school board .

Seifahrt is remembered in the women's garden at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery and along a path in Klein Borstel .

literature

• Rita Bake , Brita Reimers: This is how they lived! Walking on the paths of women in Hamburg's old and new town. State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1417-2 , p. 196.
• Rita Bake: The women's garden. A place of remembrance with historical tombstones of the graves of important women and a final resting place for women. Garden of Women Association, Hamburg 2009.
• Ursula Büttner : Political new beginning in difficult times. Election and work of the first democratic citizenship 1919–1921. State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-929728-07-9 , pp. 134–135.

Individual evidence