Frieda Radel

Frieda Anna Susanne Radel , b. Johannsen (born May 10, 1869 in Altona ; † November 20, 1958 in Potsdam ) was a Hamburg politician of the DDP and member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Frieda Radel as the main speaker at an event on January 16, year unclear, after 1904.

Life and politics

The Hamburg factory owner's daughter married the architect Georg Radel in 1887. After the birth of three daughters, she worked as a journalist and editor-in-chief for the Hamburger Fremdblatt , where she was responsible for the supplement “Frauenrundschau”; Articles by her can also be found in other Hamburg newspapers.

She belonged to the radical wing of the bourgeois women's movement and was a member of the Frauenwohl Association , the Hamburg-Altona branch of the German Association for Women's Suffrage and the German Association for Maternity Protection and Sexual Reform . She wrote many articles on women's issues and the women's movement.

In 1909 she became the responsible editor of the “Hamburger Hausfrau” (renamed “Hamburger Frauenzeitung” from late 1909), the organ of the Hamburg women's associations. In the 1920s she was editor of the magazine “Frau und Gegenwart” (1924 to 1930), the organ of the “Association of North German Women's Associations”; She also worked as a freelance journalist for Deutsche Welle and Nordische Rundfunk AG (Norag) . Together with Alice Fliegel-Bodenstedt , she was responsible for Norag's women's radio, the so-called “School of Women” (cf. Dinghaus 2001, p. 228). During this time she also helped to build up the Zonta Group in Hamburg .

She represented the DDP from 1919 to 1927 in the Hamburg Parliament .

Stone in the spiral of memories in the "Women's Garden" at the Ohlsdorf cemetery, where Frieda Radel is remembered.

In 1944 she moved to one of her daughters in Potsdam. Frieda Radel was one of the founders of the LDP in Potsdam in 1945 and, in 1947, together with other women's rights activists from the Weimar Republic such as Else Lüders, one of the founders of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (DFD) in the GDR. In 1947/48 she headed the DFD regional association Brandenburg and was a member of the DFD federal executive board until her death. Frieda Radel was also a city councilor in Potsdam from 1946 to 1950 and was a member of the Provisional People's Chamber in 1949 .

Frieda Radel died in Potsdam, but was buried in the Hamburg Ohlsdorf cemetery ; in the area of the women's garden she is remembered on a stone of the spiral of memory .

Web links

• Literature by and about Frieda Radel in the catalog of the German National Library
• The Strong Women's Club ( Hamburger Abendblatt , May 12, 2006)
• to the memorial stone and biography Frieda Radel website garden of women

literature

• Rita Bake / Brita Reimers: That's how they lived! Walking on the paths of women in Hamburg's old and new town. Hamburg 2003, p. 194.
• Dinghaus, Angela: Women's radio and young girl hour: a contribution to the program history of Weimar radio. Dissertation: Hannover, University, Joint Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, 2001. (online) , (February 6, 2010)
• Kulturland Brandenburg eV Potsdam (ed.): Courage and grace. Women in Brandenburg-Prussia. Leipzig 2010, pp. 68/69.