Eugenie Willig

Eugenie Willig (born September 8, 1879 in Bietigheim , † September 20, 1954 in Göppingen ) was a German politician of the German Democratic Party (DDP). In 1919, she was one of the small group of politically active women who were elected to the 150-seat constituent assembly in the newly formed state of Württemberg . From 1919 to 1920 she was a member of the Württemberg state parliament and in 1945 co-founder of the Democratic People's Party (DVP) in Stuttgart .

Life

Eugenie Willig was born in September 1879 in the Württemberg town of Bietigheim, today a part of Bietigheim-Bissingen , as the daughter of the town school clerk and registrar Wilhelm Christoph Willig. Like several other family members, she worked for the post in the state capital Stuttgart. In the Stuttgart address book of 1920, her job title was "Postgehilfin".

She was particularly interested in issues specific to women. A multi-page essay by Willig, in which she presented the profession of "traffic officer", was published in 1913 in Eugenie von Soden's work Das Frauenbuch: a generally understandable introduction to all areas of contemporary women's life .

Willig was also politically active and was a member of the left-liberal German Democratic Party. As part of the November Revolution in the final phase of World War I , she was a member of the Greater Stuttgart Workers' Council from November 1918 and was a member of the Housing Commission as a control person for housing rationing.

Eugenie Willig in the address book of the state capital Stuttgart 1920

At the age of 39 she was elected in the state elections on January 12, 1919 as one of 13 women in the constituent state assembly of the People's State of Württemberg, which had a total of 150 seats. From January 1919 to June 1920 she was a member of the Württemberg state parliament . During this time, too, she mainly dealt with issues specific to women. In the following state election on June 6, 1920 , the DDP was only able to win 15 seats, and Willig was no longer a member of the state parliament in the following period.

Willig apparently got married in the first half of the 1920s; in the passport files of the city of Stuttgart from 1926 she is listed as Eugenie Russ, née Willig . “Bietigheim / Besigheim” is named as her last place of employment. After that, their track is lost until 1945.

In September 1945, Eugenie Russ-Willig was one of the founding members of the Democratic People's Party (DVP), the third party, which was founded after the end of the Second World War, alongside the lawyer Wolfgang Haußmann , the master baker Karl Schwarz, the businessman Paul Ilg and the employee Kurt Haslsteiner in Stuttgart was approved by the local military government. Willig took over the function of assessor in the presidium of the DVP in the greater Stuttgart area. Like Willig, all members of the Presidium had belonged to the German Democratic Party (DDP) before 1933.

Eugenie Russ-Willig lived in 1945 at Hohentwielstrasse 51/1 in the Stuttgart-Süd district . She died on September 20, 1954 in Göppingen, just a few days after she turned 75.

literature

Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 1021 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MP since 1919 . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 , p. 100.
↑ Eugenie Willig: traffic officer . In: Eugenie von Soden: The women's book: a generally understandable introduction to all areas of contemporary women's life. Volume 1: Women's Professions . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1913, pp. 124–128. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
↑ Question of assumption of costs for postal worker Eugenie Willig . In: Main State Archives Stuttgart: E 135 a Bü 113, 5 Schr. S. 5 ( online ).
↑ Eugenie Russ, b. Willing. Index of the Stuttgart passport files 1914 to 1944 . In: Main State Archives Stuttgart: F 215 Bü 189 . ( Online ).
^ Hermann Vietzen: Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart, 1945-1948 . Klett, Stuttgart 1972, p. 123. ( limited preview in the Google book search).
↑ Günther Serfas: Better freedom without unity than unity without freedom . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 978-3-533-03784-2 , pp. 60-61 .
↑ Günther Serfas: Better freedom without unity than unity without freedom . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 978-3-533-03783-5 , p. 185.

personal data
SURNAME	Willing, Eugenie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Russ-Willig, Eugenie (married name); Soot-Willig, Eugenie; Russ, Eugenie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Württemberg politician (DDP), Member of the State Parliament 1919–1920
DATE OF BIRTH	September 8, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bietigheim
DATE OF DEATH	20th September 1954
Place of death	Goeppingen

[IH-1] Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MP since 1919 . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 , p. 100.

[2] Eugenie Willig: traffic officer . In: Eugenie von Soden: The women's book: a generally understandable introduction to all areas of contemporary women's life. Volume 1: Women's Professions . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1913, pp. 124–128. ( limited preview in Google Book search)

[3] Question of assumption of costs for postal worker Eugenie Willig . In: Main State Archives Stuttgart: E 135 a Bü 113, 5 Schr. S. 5 ( online ).

[4] Eugenie Russ, b. Willing. Index of the Stuttgart passport files 1914 to 1944 . In: Main State Archives Stuttgart: F 215 Bü 189 . ( Online ).

[5] Hermann Vietzen: Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart, 1945-1948 . Klett, Stuttgart 1972, p. 123. ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[6] Günther Serfas: Better freedom without unity than unity without freedom . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 978-3-533-03784-2 , pp. 60-61 .

[books-OTkvAAAAYAAJ--7] Günther Serfas: Better freedom without unity than unity without freedom . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 978-3-533-03783-5 , p. 185.