Emma Döltz

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Emma Klara Döltz , née Lehmann , (born February 14, 1866 in Steglitz , † March 16, 1950 in Fulda ) was a German social democrat , journalist and writer .

biography

Emma Lehmann spent most of her childhood in the Steglitz poor house . Her mother was a homeworker who she had to help with with work. The father was sick and died when Emma Lehmann was 14 years old. She herself worked in a steel spring factory until she was 28 years old. Then she married, had three children, and supplemented her husband's wages by doing homework.

From 1890 Emma Lehmann was involved in the women's movement and as a member of a child protection commission . A law against child labor had been passed in 1903 and local child protection commissions monitored its compliance with the trade unions . From 1894 her first works appeared in the women's magazine Die Equality , which was edited by Clara Zetkin , and in 1900 she published a selection under the title Jugend-Lieder . She used several pseudonyms, such as Klara Döltz, Klara Lehmann and Emma Lehmann. In 1905 she became a member of the SPD and a permanent employee of equality : “In their poems they [Emma Döltz and Clara Müller-Jahnke ] described the world of work and the experiences of working women and in this way raised the claim to influence the public discussion want: In addition to the improvement of female working conditions, they called for human and political equality for women in their texts. "

Emma Döltz later became a functionary of the Berlin SPD, in 1933 a member of the district executive committee and second chairwoman of the workers' welfare organization in Berlin. Marie Juchacz wrote about her: "What kind of person could she have become if she had been given all the intellectual and emotional development opportunities to which young people have a moral claim?"

Emma Döltz became politically active again in the SPD after 1945. In 1950 she died at the age of 84 in Fulda. Her estate is in the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn .

Publications

  • Hope . The new world. Illustrated entertainment paper . Hamburg 1909, No. 31, p. 246.
  • Unemployed . In: Arbeiter-Jugend 1910
  • Sunrise . In: Arbeiter-Jugend 1914
  • Youth songs . Vorwärts bookstore, Berlin 1917.
  • The strike breaker. Mood picture from working life in 3 elevators . 2nd edition, A. Hoffmann, Berlin 1929.
  • Liberty, equality, fraternity. Christmas speaking choir . In: The child friend . Vorwärts bookstore, Berlin 1929, No. 26.
  • From the old child protection commission . Workers welfare . 5 (1930), No. 18, pp. 566-569. Digitized
  • Relaxation on the Immenhof . In: Arbeiterwohlfahrt . 8 (1933), No. 7, pp. 215-216. Digitized

literature

  • Emma Döltz. In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism. Volume I. Deceased personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 67.
  • Marlies Obier: "for a better world". The first women in social democracy . Catalog accompanying the traveling exhibition “For a Better World!” Ed. SPD party executive. Berlin 2013. p. 52.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Forerunner of the AW: The child protection commissions on awo-wedel.de ( Memento from September 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Ji-Young Kim: Women's literature in university GFL classes in South Korea . Phil. Diss. Bielefeld 2007, p. 89 ( Memento of the original dated July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pub.uni-bielefeld.de
  3. ↑ Exhibition "for a better world" opens on spd-hessen-nord.de (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  4. ↑ Emma Klara Döltz on fes.de
  5. ^ Reprint in: First reddening of the morning. Early socialist German literature 1860-1918 . Reclam, Leipzig 1982, p. 345.

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personal data
SURNAME Doeltz, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Döltz, Emma Klara (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democrat, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Steglitz
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1950
Place of death Fulda