Friederike Bröll

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Friederike Bröll (around 1905); from the magnificent album of the General German Women's Association with photographs of the activists

Friederike Bröll (* 1865 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 1952 there ) was a German social politician and women's rights activist .

Life

Friederike Bröll was nationally and regionally committed to the women's movement and equal rights for women. In 1900 she took over the chairmanship of the Frankfurt legal protection agency for women . This had made it its task to educate women about their private and political rights. Bröll defended the support of women in conflict situations by lay people, although her association had also hired a lawyer. In the following year she also became chairwoman of the commercial association of female employees , her predecessor was Anna Edinger . She had been a member of the board of the Frankfurt branch of the General German Women's Association (ADF) since 1904. Here she worked with her sister-in-law Emma Bröll, who was a member of the board from 1896 to 1906. Friederike Bröll was also a member of the main board of directors of the ADF from 1905 to 1911. Together with Edinger, Bröll sat in the commission for commercial education of the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine (BDF) in 1905 and 1906 , but neither of them could prevent the dissolution of the commission.

Grand album of the ADF (Bröll bottom left)

With her sister-in-law, she was involved in the left-liberal Democratic Association , in 1908 Friederike was elected to the extended board and in 1909 Emma was also elected. In 1911, Bröll traveled to the women's suffrage congress in Stockholm with the Frankfurt women's rights activists Anna Edinger and Bertha Pappenheim . As the German delegate of the International Women's World Federation (IWSA) , Bröll campaigned for women's rights and the introduction of women's suffrage in Germany. She gave up her position on the main board of the ADF in 1911 in favor of Jenny Apolant .

family

Her husband was the merchant Wilhelm Bröll and they had two children. Friederike was Protestant.

literature

  • Christina Klausmann: Politics and culture of the women's movement in the German Empire: the example of Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt: Campus Verl. 1997. pp. 331–336. (Faces and History series. 19.) ISBN 3-593-35758-5 .
  • Friederike Bröll . In: Women.Power.Politics. Flyer. Edited by the Frankfurt Historical Museum. 2018.

Web links

Commons : Friederike Bröll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 49 Empresses for Frankfurt , Die Grünen im Nordend, March 11, 2018, accessed on September 14, 2018
  2. ↑ 100 Years of Women's Suffrage Catalog of the 49 women portrayed in the Kaisersaal Frankfurt, accessed on September 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bröll, Friederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Social politician and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 1952
Place of death Frankfurt am Main