Else Ulich-Beil

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Else Ulich-Beil (born August 30, 1886 in Elberfeld , † May 4, 1965 in Berlin ) was a German politician. She was a councilor and member of the state parliament in Saxony. She stood up for the rights of women and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for this .

Life

Else Ulich's tombstone in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Else Beil studied philosophy and history and then did her doctorate with a thesis on the "Development of the Concept of World Literature". In 1914 she was appointed administrative director of the University for Women in Leipzig. A year later she got involved in setting up a research institute for cultural and universal history at the University of Leipzig . She married Robert Ulich (1890–1977), from whom she divorced in 1929.

In 1917 she was appointed head of the women's department at the Leipzig War Office. In this role she created over 10,000 jobs for women throughout Saxony. In 1920 she was elected as a successor for the German Democratic Party (DDP) in the Saxon People's Chamber and from 1926 to 1929 in the Saxon State Parliament. There, too, she was committed to the status of women.

She came to Dresden in 1920 as a government councilor for social affairs in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior . Under her, among other things, the State Office for Welfare Care and maternity advice centers came into being. From 1921 she worked in the Citizens' Association , the successor to the General German Women's Association , of which she was the second chairman. From 1929 she was a member of the board of the "Landesverband der Sächsischen Frauenvereine". She took over from Lotte Schurig the management of the private "Social Women's School" within the Dresden reform project " Gartenstadt Hellerau ", which had been founded twenty years earlier under the influence of the Deutscher Werkbund and Friedrich Naumann . Under Beil it was converted into a state welfare school for women and men.

After the NSDAP came to power , the school was closed in 1933, as was the General German Women's Association. Beil himself was banned from working. She could only start working again after the war. In 1947 she took over the management of the newly founded Citizens' Association and from 1952 to 1955 of the German Women's Ring. In the following years she campaigned for refugees and displaced persons. In 1956, Beil was awarded the Great Cross of Merit for her life's work. In 1961 she published her autobiography under the title "I went my way".

Elise Ulich-Beil died in Berlin in 1965 at the age of 78. The burial took place in the hereditary funeral of the family of her divorced husband Robert Ulich in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in today's district of Berlin-Westend (grave location: I-Erb.-Mauer). She rests there at the side of their son Eckart Ulich (born 1923), who died in Munich in the spring of 1943 as a result of severe wounds he had suffered seven months earlier as a soldier in North Africa. Robert Ulich was also buried in the hereditary funeral in 1977 at the Heerstrasse cemetery.

Works

  • The development of the concept of world literature . Leipzig: R. Voigtländer, 1915.
  • I went my way. Life memories . Berlin: Herbig, 1961.

literature

Web links

Commons : Else Ulich-Beil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 496.
  2. ↑ Else Ulich-Beil: I went my way. Life memories . Herbig, Berlin-Grunewald 1961. pp. 151-155. Angelika Schaser: Registered? Gender in autobiographies of the first women politicians in Germany . In: L'homme. Journal of Feminist History . Vol. 24, No. 2, 2013, ISSN  2194-5071 . Pp. 23–38, here p. 29.
  3. ^ Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial sites . P. 496.
personal data
SURNAME Ulich-Beil, Else
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1965
Place of death Berlin