Else Lüders (women's rights activist)
Else Lüders (born July 27, 1872 in Drossen , Neumark, † January 15, 1948 in Berlin ) was a German politician . She was a member of the CDU and co-founder of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany .
Life
Lüders was the secretary of the Frauenwohl Berlin association founded in 1888 and its chairwoman, the women's rights activist Minna Cauer . The Frauenwohl association belonged to the so-called radical wing of the bourgeois women's movement and was organized in the Association of Progressive Women's Associations from 1899 . In 1907, the association joined the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine , which dissolved in 1933 to avoid subordination to the NSDAP. In 1927 Else Lüders was a councilor in the Reich Labor Administration; In 1928 she became a senior councilor. After 1945 she became a member of the CDU and was a member of the Central Women's Committee from 1945 to 1947 . In 1947 she was one of the co-founders of the DFD and from 1947 to 1948 she was the deputy federal chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany.
Lüdersstraße in Berlin-Köpenick is named after her.
Else Lüders should not be confused with Marie-Elisabeth (Lisbeth) Lüders , who was also active in the Berlin women's movement.
Works (selection)
- Else Lüders: The left wing. A sheet from the history of the German women's movement. Berlin 1904.
- Else Lüders: The State's Interest in Women's Suffrage . Berlin 1908 ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive )
- Else Lüders: Minna Cauer. Life and work. Perthes, Gotha / Stuttgart 1925.
literature
- Peter Reinicke : Lüders, Else , in: Hugo Maier (ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 371f.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 496 (short biography).
- Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 .
- Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (ed.): History of the DFD. Verlag für die Frau , Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7304-0223-4 , p. 68.
- Barbara Greven-Aschoff: The bourgeois women's movement in Germany 1884-1933. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981, ISBN 3-525-35704-4 . Digitized
- Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , pp. 119 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
Web links
- Else Lüders' curriculum vitae on the website of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Reich Ministry of Labor 1933–1945
References and comments
- ↑ Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (ed.): History of the DFD. Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7304-0223-4 , pp. 68, 83.
- ↑ The year of birth 1873 can also be found.
- ↑ Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (ed.): SBZ manual. 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 697.
- ↑ Lüdersstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lüders, Else |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ośno Lubuskie |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1948 |
| Place of death | Berlin |