Emilie Kiep-Altenloh

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Emilie Kiep-Altenloh b. Altenloh (born July 30, 1888 in Voerde / Westphalia (today in Ennepetal ), † February 22, 1985 in Hamburg ) was a German sociologist and liberal politician ( DDP or FDP ). She was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1949 to 1961, a senator from 1953 to 1961 and a member of the Bundestag from 1961 to 1965 . She is dubbed the "great old lady of liberalism ".

Life and politics

Emilie Altenloh's father and uncle ran a screw factory in Voerde, and the family also owned a brewery and a salt factory. She attended the one-class elementary school on the Brink until she was ten, after which she received private lessons, attended boarding school in Switzerland and the secondary school in Elberfeld . In 1909 she passed the Abitur in Remscheid and then studied economics , law and sociology at the universities of Heidelberg , Munich , Kiel and Vienna . She received her doctorate in 1913/14 under Alfred Weber with a dissertation on the sociology of cinema , which was rated summa cum laude and represents the world's first social science work on cinema.

She then worked as a career advisor and apprenticeship placement agent in Elberfeld and Düsseldorf. From 1914 to 1918 she headed the district nutrition office in Schwelm , Westphalia , and in 1918 she worked in a stove factory. From 1919 to 1924 she was the head of the Provincial Welfare Office for Schleswig-Holstein . During this time she founded the social women's school in Kiel, which she also led for a time. In 1924 she was co-founder of the “Fifth Welfare Association” in Schleswig-Holstein, from which the Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband later emerged.

In 1923 Altenloh married the industrial director and engineer of the Vulkan shipyard in Hamburg, Johann Nikolaus ("Klaus") Kiep (born October 1, 1882, † November 14, 1967), son of the businessman Johannes Kiep , brother of Louis Leisler Kiep and Otto Kiep . The marriage remained childless. The CDU politician Walther Leisler Kiep is her nephew.

In 1929 Kiep-Altenloh joined the German Democratic Party (DDP), which she represented as a city councilor in Altona until 1930 . In May 1930 she replaced the retired member Theodor Tantzen in the German Reichstag , but left after the early Reichstag election in September of the same year . The following year she co-founded the first German Zonta Club in Hamburg.

After the so-called seizure of power by the National Socialists, she was subject to a political ban, so she took on a position in the administration of the Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Hamburg , headed by Jakob von Uexküll . At the same time, she studied zoology there from 1934 . After the outbreak of war in 1939, she held a key position at the institute. She was responsible for training guide dogs . When Uexküll's successors Friedrich Brock and Heinz Brüll became prisoners of war, she headed the entire institute until 1947. From this she outsourced the guide dog training and for this purpose founded the Jacob von Uexküll Foundation for the training of guide dogs in October 1945 .

After the Second World War, Kiep-Altenloh was a co-founder of the Free Democrats Party (PFD), from which the FDP Hamburg emerged . From 1949 to 1961 she was a member of the Hamburg Parliament . In the second electoral term in 1951 she held the post of deputy group leader for two months. This made her the first woman to be elected to the board of a parliamentary group in Hamburg. From 1953 to 1961 she was a senator: in the Sieveking Senate ( Hamburg-Block , 1953–57) she headed the social and youth authority, in the Brauer III and Nevermann I Senates (social liberal coalition, 1957–61) the authority for food and agriculture as well as the prison authorities. She then sat in the German Bundestag from 1961 to 1965 .

Honors

Emilie Kiep-Altenloh had been proposed for the Great Federal Cross of Merit. As a result, the SPD made a small request to the Hamburg city council in May 1963. Mayor Paul Nevermann stated that the Senate would continue to stick to its traditional motto: No medals for senators (so-called Hanseatic rejection ). Regarding suggestions from other sources, the Senate will express itself to the awarding body that the award should not be granted. The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg honored Emilie Kiep-Altenloh in 1963 with the Mayor Stolten Medal . The FDP Hamburg elected her honorary chairman in 1972. The Dr. Emilie Kiep Altenloh Foundation , founded in 1979, is named after her.

Publications

  • Emilie Altenloh: On the sociology of the cinema. The cinema enterprise and the social classes of its visitors (= writings on sociology and culture , vol. 3), Jena 1914, reprint 1977.
  • Emilie Altenloh and Ernst Kantorowicz : Guide for youth welfare offices and youth lay judges in youth court assistance. Meldorf 1923.
  • Emilie Kiep-Altenloh: The training of guide dogs. In: Frontier areas of medicine. 1st year, 1948, pp. 57–59
  • Emilie Kiep-Altenloh: The unoccupied plenum. Thoughts and suggestions. In: Free Democratic Correspondence. 1964, No. 24, March 13, 1964.
  • Emilie Kiep-Altenloh: Notes and Memories. In: Members of the German Bundestag - records and memories. Volume 1, Boppard am Rhein, 1982, pp. 315-344.

literature

  • Matthias Sebastian Klaes: Emilie Altenloh (1888–1985). In: Christian Steuerwald (Hrsg.): Classics of the sociology of the arts. Prominent and significant approaches. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, pp. 175–195
  • Peter Reinicke : Kiep-Altenloh, Emilie , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 299f.
  • Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Kiep-Altenloh, Emilie . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 212-214 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Filk, Jens Ruchatz: Early film and media sociology. Emilie Altenloh's study “On the Sociology of Cinema” from 1914. Universitätsverlag, Siegen 2007, p. 10.
  2. ↑ a b c Rita Bake, Kirsten Heinsohn: On the history of the Hamburg women's movement and women's politics from the 19th century to the New Hamburg women's movement at the end of the 1960s, "But under human rights one means nothing other than men's rights", on the history of the Hamburg women's movement and women's politics from the 19th century to the new Hamburg women's movement at the end of the 1960s PDF file, p. 194 , hamburg.de
  3. ↑ Matthias Sebastian Klaes: Emilie Altenloh (1888–1985). In: Christian Steuerwald: Classics of the Sociology of the Arts. Prominent and significant approaches. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, pp. 175–195.
  4. ↑ a b Reichstag Handbook, 4th electoral period, entry Kiep-Altenloh, Emilie
  5. ↑ Degeners Who is it? Volume 10, 1935, p. 808.
  6. ↑ Traute Hoffmann: Dr. rer. pole. Emilie Kiep-Altenloh. In: The first German Zonta club. On the trail of extraordinary women. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2002, pp. 161–166.
  7. ↑ Florian Mildenberger, Bernd Herrmann: Afterword In: Jakob Johann von Uexküll: Environment and inner world of animals. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2014, p. 312.
  8. ↑ Florian Mildenberger, Bernd Herrmann: Afterword In: Jakob Johann von Uexküll: Environment and inner world of animals. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2014, pp. 324-325.
  9. ↑ Hamburg Citizenship website: MPs: Women in Parliament ( Memento from June 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, No. 119 of May 24, 1963, p. 3: Also in future no medals for senators ( PDF ( Memento of July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
personal data
SURNAME Kiep-Altenloh, Emilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altenloh, Emilie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DDP, FDP), MdR, MdHB, Senator, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Voerde / Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1985
Place of death Hamburg