Emma yours

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Berlin memorial plaque on Marthastraße 10 in Berlin-Niederschönhausen
Concordia pharmacy in Velten
Grave of Emma Ihr in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin

Emma Ihr (born January 3, 1857 in Glatz as Emma Faber called Rother ; † January 8, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and trade unionist .

Life

Emma Ihr came from a Catholic shoemaker family. After her early marriage to the 22-year-old pharmacist Emanuel Ihr, she moved to Berlin. In 1881 the socialist and feminist founded the women's aid association for manual workers in Berlin and was also a member of the board. She joined the Social Democratic Party in her mid-twenties and fought for the rights of women workers as early as the time of the Socialist Laws. In 1885, together with Marie Hofmann , Pauline Staegemann and Gertrude Guillaume-Schack, she founded the Berlin Association to protect the interests of women workers . The association saw itself primarily as a support association in which doctors and lawyers made their services available free of charge. The workers' union was disbanded by the police a year later , but at that time it already had more than a thousand members.

In 1887, her husband took over the Concordia pharmacy on Breiten Strasse in Velten . She lived in the furnace town until 1894. When the husband threatened to withdraw his license due to her political activities, he sold the pharmacy and they moved to Berlin. From 1907 until her death both lived with the union official Carl Legien in his house on Marthastraße in Pankow-Schönhausen.

In 1889 you and Clara Zetkin participated as a delegate at the International Socialist Congress in Paris. There, together with Zetkin, she prevented an application against women's employment and achieved that women were recognized as equal in the trade unions. At the end of 1890, she was the first woman to be elected to the general commission of the trade unions in Germany alongside six men.

Emma Ihr continued to fight for the rights of women and from January 1891 published the weekly newspaper Die Arbeiterin , from 1892 Die Gleichheit . In the period that followed, she founded other feminist associations that saw themselves as socialist and decidedly distanced themselves from the women's associations that were also emerging with a different political orientation. When the association was founded, she came into constant conflict with the police.

Honors

Works

  • The organizations of the workers in Germany, their formation and development. Berlin 1893.
  • The workers in the class struggle. Beginnings of the workers' movement, its contrast to the bourgeois women's movement and its next tasks. Hamburg 1898

literature

Web links

Commons : Emma yours  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Emma yours  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Wähner: Memorial plaque commemorates the women's rights activist and trade unionist Emma Ihr - Pankow . berliner-woche.de . November 22, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Oranienburger Generalanzeiger of November 24, 2010, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Isabel Seliger: Emma's 161st birthday. Google LLC, January 3, 2018, accessed January 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ District Office Pankow: Press release from February 12, 2019. In: berlin.de. February 12, 2019, accessed August 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Yours, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faber called Rother, Emma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Bald
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1911
Place of death Berlin