Grete Borgmann

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Grete Borgmann , b. Sieber (born November 1, 1911 in Koblenz , † November 19, 2001 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German women's rights activist . From 1976 to 1979 she was Vice President of the German Women's Ring .

Life

Borgmann was born as the eighth child of postmaster Heinrich Sieber and his wife Eva in Koblenz. She attended the Realgymnasiale Lyceum of the Ursulines, where she passed the Abitur. She studied philology with the languages ​​German, English and French in Freiburg im Breisgau, one semester in Berlin , attended the University of Liverpool for a year and received a scholarship at the Sorbonne in Paris . After marrying Karl Borgmann in 1935, she gave up studying philology and her doctoral thesis. In the following five years the children Eva, Albert, Rainer and Margrit were born. Shortly before Margrit was born in February 1942, Karl was drafted into military service. Grete and Karl conducted a lively exchange of letters until Karl was released from American captivity in August 1945. This correspondence comprises a total of around 1500 typewriter pages.

Borgmann was elected to the General Council of the German Association of Academics and took part in congresses in England, Vienna , Bonn and Switzerland . In Freiburg after the war she was an interpreter for the American Consul General and organized discussion groups with international participants. In order to support her family financially, she taught folk dance courses, German for foreigners and what she called "decency courses" as a lecturer at the Freiburg Adult Education Center.

engagement

Borgmann was involved in the bourgeois women's movement and in 1949 joined the German Women's Ring (DFR). He sent them to international meetings and congresses. She developed many projects and initiatives for the Freiburg branch of the DFR, for example:

  • the "Freiburg Educational Groups" - parent-teacher discussion groups, forerunners of parent representatives
  • the "Young Citizens' Celebrations" - events for first-time voters
  • the project “New start from 35” - reintegration courses for women after the family phase. This project was soon carried out nationwide and also by other educational institutions, see Biographical Further Education .

In 1973 she published her book "Freiburg and the Women's Movement". Two years later she was elected head of the Education Commission of the International Women's Alliance. With a group of women from Friborg she organized literacy programs in Africa and Asia . She represented the women's alliance at UNESCO in Paris. From 1976 to 1979 she was Vice President of the German Women's Ring. In 1992 she took part in an Alliance congress for the last time in Athens .

Publications

  • It's a good place to live , 1957.
  • Freiburg and the women's movement , Ettenheim / Baden, 1973.

Honors

literature

  • Cordula Koepcke, women show their colors. Sociopolitical work in Germany , Opladen 1984, ISBN 3-8100-0504-5 .
  • Grete Borgmann, Freiburg and the women's movement , Ettenheim / Baden 1973.
  • “Luckily, longing helps” An exchange of letters 1944/45 (letters from Grete and Karl Borgmann 1944–1945), published by the House of History Baden-Württemberg, Leinfelden 2010, ISBN 978-3-7650-8544-4 .
  • Brigitte Oleschinski, "... that they were people, not stones" Aid networks of Catholic women for persecuted Jews in the Third Reich , in: Zeitgeschichte 17 (1990) pp. 395–416

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Schneider-Borgmann , Grete Borgmann's curriculum vitae, in: “Fortunately, the longing helps” A correspondence 1944/45, published by the House of History Baden-Württemberg, Leinfelden 2010, pp. 243–248, 245, 248.
  2. ↑ Eva Schneider-Borgmann , Grete Borgmann's curriculum vitae, in: "Fortunately, the longing helps" A correspondence 1944/45, published by the House of History Baden-Württemberg, Leinfelden 2010, pp. 243–248, 246–247.
  3. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Borgmann, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sieber, Grete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2001
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau