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Emma "Emmy" Freundlich (born June 25, 1878 in Aussig in Böhmen ; † March 16, 1948 in New York City ) was an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP) and a writer .

Life

Emma Kögler was the late daughter of Adolf Kögler, a wealthy engineer and liberal politician who made it to the position of mayor of Aussig on the Elbe. She lost her father at the age of 16. The rebellious young girl began publishing at an early age and in 1900, contrary to the wishes of her family, married the social democratic journalist of Jewish descent Leo Freundlich (1875–1954) in Gretna Green , Scotland . Emmy Freundlich moved with her husband to Mährisch-Schönberg , where he worked as editor of the “People's Watch” and published her optimistic view of the new century in this paper as early as April 1900. Regardless of the birth of her two daughters, Emmy Freundlich was already active in Moravia in the social democratic milieu and was heavily involved in the events of the workers' home founded in 1903 . As early as 1907 she published in “Kampf”, the theoretical organ of Austrian social democracy, mainly on women's and family issues. Leo Freundlich was elected to the Reichsrat for Mährisch-Schönberg in 1907. In the wake of the election defeat of the German-speaking Social Democrats in 1911, in which Freundlich also lost his mandate, the couple moved to Vienna in 1911 and divorced that same year. Leo Freundlich subsequently turned away from social democracy and became the “Royal Albanian Press Chief” as the representative of the Albanian King Zogu.

Emmy Freundlich, on the other hand, made a career in Vienna. She joined the social democratic circle around Karl Renner , was active in the organization of children's friends and above all in the consumer cooperative movement led by Renner . (Already in Schönberg, she and her husband, who also came from a wealthy family, had selflessly supported the consumer association, which had got into trouble). In 1913 she redesigned the cooperative folk newspaper “Der Pionier”, which had existed since 1909, into a housewives' newspaper and, following the English model, acted as the organizer of a cooperative women's organization. In the course of the integration of the consumer cooperatives into the war economy, Emmy Freundlich was appointed to the management of the wartime food office together with Karl Renner. With the position of director in the Federal Ministry for People's Nutrition, Emmy Freundlich held the highest female position in the Austrian state.

Emmy Freundlich was active as a journalist throughout his life. In the years 1907 to 1928 she wrote numerous articles for the social democratic monthly "Der Kampf" . Freundlich was secretary of the Reichsverein der Kinderfreunde from 1917 to 1923 and from 1921 to 1923 president of the "Internation Cooperative Women's Guild" (ICWG). She also became a member of the Vienna City Council in 1918 , where she worked until 1923. From March 4, 1919 to November 9, 1920 she was a member of the Constituent National Assembly . In 1929 Freundlich worked on the Committee of the Economic Section of the League of Nations, where she was the only female delegate. From November 10, 1920 to October 1, 1930 and from December 2, 1930 to February 17, 1934, she worked as a member of the National Council .

After being imprisoned in 1934, Emmy Freundlich emigrated to London in 1939 . In 1943 she co-founded the Austrian Committee for Relief and Reconstruction and was its chairman. In 1947 she moved to New York City and became an observer for the ICWG at the Economic and Social Council of the UN in New York.

Appreciation

In 2004 the Emmi-Freundlich-Gasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after her.

Publications

  • Emma Freundlich: The Struggle for the Reorganization of the World Economy and the International World Economic Conference , Munich, Heller
  • Emma Freundlich: The Cooperative - Vienna, O. Maass, 1929
  • Emma Freundlich: The cooperative movement in the state and the municipality of Vienna, its development, its structure and its future , Vienna, "Vorwärts", 1930
  • Emmy Freundlich: The International of Cooperatives. Der Mensch in der Wirtschaft und der Sozialismus , Wien, Verlag der Organization Wien der Sozialdemokratische Party, 1930, (Wiener Sozialdemokratische Bücherei)
  • Emmy Freundlich: The power of housewives: An appeal to housewives , Vienna, Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, 1927
  • Emmy Freundlich: Frührot , Vienna, H. Heller, 1907
  • Emmy Freundlich: Our daily bread - An introduction to questions of customs and trade policy , Vienna, H. Heller, 1917
  • Emmy Freundlich: Nature, tasks and organization of the cooperative movement , 1927, library of the cooperative advisory boards of the works councils in Austria
  • Emmy Freundlich: Housewives are building a new world! Cooperative movement; Cooperative women's movement; International women's cooperative guild (IGFG) . o. O. 1935, [online at http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/8301 ]

literature

  • Kindly Emmi. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 359.
  • Roswitha Strommer: A woman with international aspirations in: Johann Brazda / Siegfried Rom (Ed.): 150 Years of Consumer Cooperatives in Austria, self-published by the FGK, Vienna 2006
  • Roswhita Strommer: Emmy Friendly. An eventful life for the cooperative , Vienna, FGK 2008 ISBN 978-3-9501499-3-7

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Adolf Kögler on usti-aussig.net
  2. ↑ Emmy Freundlich, b. Kögler 1878 to 1948 ( memento from November 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), on renner-institut.at
  3. ^ First women parliamentarians in the Constituent National Assembly. Retrieved May 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ more precisely Strommer p. 17
  5. ↑ cf. Emmy Freundlich Introduction - Emmy Freundlich ( Memento from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kind, Emmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kind, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SDAP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Aussig
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1948
Place of death New York City