Emma Ender

Emma Ender , b. Behle, (born August 2, 1875 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 25, 1954 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg politician for the German People's Party (DVP) and a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Empire

Emma Ender came from a wealthy merchant family. Due to the father's prohibition, she was not allowed to work. At the age of 25 she married the export merchant Max Ender. The marriage remained childless.

She became a member of the General German Women's Association (ADF) in which she was deputy chairwoman from 1907 to 1916. In this context, she took over the management of an after-school care center and from 1910 to 1919 was the chairwoman of the Association of Hamburger Mädchenhorte . In 1912 she was one of the first women to join the “Hamburg National Liberal Association”. The association only allowed women to join its ranks from 1910 onwards. When the Stadtbund Hamburger Frauenvereine was founded in December 1915 , she became its chairman.

During the First World War , Ender was one of the founding members of the women's committee of the Hamburg War Aid . The committee was an offshoot of the Hamburg Society for Charity initiated by the ADF and was intended to contribute to the war on the home front. Even during the First World War, Ender fought for women's suffrage and in 1917 presented the then Second Mayor Werner von Melle with a petition with over 18,000 signatures. But this demand went unheeded until the November Revolution.

Weimar Republic

After the introduction of women's suffrage in 1919 in the Weimar Republic , Ender was of the opinion that women should be encouraged and educated in order to exercise their new political rights. She therefore founded the “ Electoral Advertising Committee of Hamburg Women's Associations ”. Among other things, the committee called for political training for women. From 1920 to 1927 she was also chairwoman of the " Association of North German Women's Associations " and was significantly involved in the merger of the Hamburg women's associations to form " Hamburger Frauenhilfe ".

Stone with Ender's name in the spiral of memories in the women's garden.

She sat for the DVP from 1919 to 1924 in the Hamburg parliament . After leaving the citizenry, she took on the role of chairwoman of the Federation of German Women's Associations .

As an opponent of the National Socialists, she retired to Inner Emigration in 1933.

Her her name is in memory along with the names of Klara Fricke and Gertrud Lockmann on the third stone of remembrance spiral in the garden of the women of the cemetery Ohlsdorf in Hamburg.

literature

• Rita Bake / Brita Reimers: That's how they lived! Walking on the paths of women in Hamburg's old and new town. Hamburg 2003.
• Ursula Büttner : Political new beginning in difficult times: Election and work of the first democratic citizenship 1919 to 1921. Hamburg 1994.
• Helmut Stubbe da Luz : The city mothers Ida Dehmel , Emma Ender, Margarete Treuge. Publishing house of the Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1994.
• Helmut Stubbe da Luz: Emma Ender - practitioner in women's movement and parliament , in: Das Rathaus - magazine for local politics, year 1988, pages 546–552.

Web links

• Literature by and about Emma Ender in the catalog of the German National Library
• "Women's Garden" entry about Emma Ender.