Guste Schepp

Guste Schepp (born August 23, 1886 in Bremen , † July 23, 1967 in Bremen) was a German politician ( German State Party ) and women's rights activist .

biography

Schepp was the daughter of the businessman Carl Merkel and his wife Carlotta. She attended until 1901, the Lyceum of Anna Vietor . After staying in a girls 'boarding school in Dresden and in England, she studied at Gustav Janson's teachers' college in Bremen , but had to drop out due to illness. She married the Bremen lawyer Hans Schepp, who died in the war in 1918; both had four children.

In 1919 she and other women founded the war survivors' association , which soon had around 900 members. She worked in the club for over 15 years. As a socially experienced person - it was said - she was later appointed to a committee of the Reich Labor Ministry .

In 1927 Schepp became chairwoman of the women's city association founded by Verena Rodewald in 1910 . Her topics were: The disadvantage of women, peace resolutions and problems regarding the criminal liability of abortion according to § 218 StGB . Among other things, she wrote about women's conferences, important women and current events in the Bremer Nachrichten . In 1930 she was elected to the Bremen parliament as the successor to Agnes Heineken (DDP) . Here she campaigned for improved educational opportunities for children of less well-off parents and was active in the welfare deputation. Around 1930 she became chairwoman of the Association of North German Women’s Associations and a member of the board of the Federation of German Women’s Associations , connected with supraregional activities.

During the time of National Socialism , Schepp was active for the Protestant church, was involved in the Bremen cathedral parish and in 1938 took over the chairmanship of the German Evangelical Women's Association (DEF). She held this office until 1964. In the summer of 1933 she waged a hard conflict with Regional Bishop Weidemann , whom she accused of taking sides with the NSDAP .

In 1950 she and other women founded a joint youth organization of the DEF, in which courses, among other things, encouraged young women with a disability. The liberal Auguste Schepp was active in the Bremen women's movement until a few years before her death .

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Elisabeth Hannover-Drück : Schepp, Guste, b. Merkel . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .

Web links

• Women's museum, portrait