Ernestine von Fürth

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Ernestine von Fürth (born October 5, 1877 in Prague ; † October 31, 1946 in Washington, DC ) was a founding member of the “New Vienna Women's Club”, chairwoman of the Austrian women's suffrage committee and editor of the “Zeitschrift für Frauenstimmrecht”, chairwoman of the federal legal commission Austrian women's associations.

Life

Little is known about the private life of this eminent women's rights activist. Ernestine Kisch, daughter from a wealthy Prague family, married the court attorney Emil von Fürth (1863–1911), who was also a member of the Vienna City Council ( Social Policy Party ) until 1910 . Both left Judaism in 1905. In 1906, Ernestine von Fürth and Leopoldine Glöckel founded the women's suffrage committee. The establishment of a women's suffrage association was initially not possible because the law forbade women from membership in associations. Fürth also played a leading role in convening the first Austrian women's suffrage conference in Vienna in March 1912, which was supposed to unite the women's suffrage associations of Cisleithania in one umbrella organization. Ernestine von Fürth was the mother of the lawyer and economist Josef Herbert Fürth (later Furth), a member of the circle around Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich August von Hayek . In 1938 she fled to the USA with her son.

literature

  • Elisabeth Malleier: Jewish women in the Viennese bourgeois women's movement 1890–1938 . 2001, especially pp. 59-65.
  • Margarete Grandner, Edith Saurer : Gender, Religion and Engagement: The Jewish Women's Movements in German-speaking Countries (19th and early 20th centuries). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3205772598 .

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personal data
SURNAME Fürth, Ernestine von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1946
Place of death Washington, DC