Women's office

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Frauenamt was the name of a sub-organization of the German Labor Front (DAF). In the DAF, after the unions had been smashed during the Nazi era, the "factory managers" and their "followers" were organized according to the law on the organization of national work .

The DAF managed its 23 offices from its headquarters on Potsdamer Strasse in Berlin. Party member Gertrud Scholtz-Klink headed the women's office of the DAF (Office 16 in the central office of the DAF) and thus the company social workers and the local women's offices in Germany and in occupied countries. Like the women's office in Berlin, every local branch of this organization was called a women's office .

How a women's office influenced everyday women's lives on site and the fate of individual women can only be deduced from women's diaries and biographies (research required !). Allegedly, it wasn't about influencing women, but about shaping their environment differently. A speaker instruction sounds accordingly: "The women's office of the DAF considers it to be its special obligation to ensure that the environment of the company also does justice to the nature of the women employed there." What is meant by the essence of women is shown by the Labor Science Institute of the DAF (Office 23 in the central office of the DAF) in a study "on the work of women in industry and craft". The focus is supposedly the beauty of women and their working world. Even in retrospect, Scholtz-Klink only generally sees " The woman " and " The women's office of the German Labor Front (DAF)" from the perspective of Potsdamer Strasse , and not the individual woman exposed to the fascist bureaucracy at work or in a local women's office was.

  1. ^ Claus Selzner : The German Labor Front, Idea and Shape; Brief outline of the wishes of the head of the Reich organization of the NSDAP., Dr. Robert Ley, m. d. R., head of the German Labor Front. Writings of the German University of Politics. II The organizational structure of the Third Reich, volume 5. Edited by Paul Meier-Benneckenstein. Berlin, Junker and Dünnhaupt, 1935. 32 pages, page 19.
  2. ^ "The only party official" educational and speaker information material of the Reich Propaganda Department of the NSDAP and the Propaganda Office of the DAF, 3rd volume 4th delivery from April 1936 (loose-leaf collection) on the keywords "Woman, social work".
  3. ↑ Yearbook 1940/41, Volume I, published by the Ergonomic Institute of the DAF Berlin, Arbeitswissenschaftlicher Verlag GmbH Berlin, pages 373-418
  4. ↑ in: The woman in the Third Reich. A documentation by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink. Grabert-Verlag-Tübingen 1978; see Chapter 7, pages 319 to 358.

literature

(There is no reputable evidence, so here only the memoirs of the Reichsfrauenführer :)

  • "The woman in the Third Reich. A documentation by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink. Grabert-Verlag-Tübingen 1978 ISBN 3-87847-039-8