Helene Granitsch

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Helene Granitsch (born June 8, 1876 in Vienna as Helena Margaretha Carolina Mündl , † February 11, 1956 in Portland , Oregon , USA ) was an Austrian - American writer and a leader in the women's movement .

Life

Helene Granitsch, daughter of Norbert Mündl, an imperial-royal court official (1832-1888) and cousin of Adalbert Stifters , graduated from the St. Anna Teachers Training College in Vienna and took acting lessons in the speech school of the Burgtheatre actor Bernhard Baumeister .

Granitsch was married between 1899 and 1917 with the lawyer Robert Granitsch (1865-1937), a son of the lawyer and politician Georg Granitsch and brother of the painter Susanne Granitsch . The couple had three daughters.

Act

Granitsch began her social engagement in 1901 in the field of public relations (at that time still "Propaganda") for the protection of mothers and babies and became the first vice-president of the association for protection of babies and mothers, which she and Prof. Th. Escherich founded in 1902. She founded and organized the “Infant Protection” association (1903), the first infant department in the Sankt Anna Children's Hospital and the first infant nursing school.

From 1911 to 1920 Granitsch was chairman of the "Reich Organization of Austrian Housewives". She campaigned for equal rights for women, worked together with Berta von Suttner in the Austrian Peace Society and took part in the development of the Austrian women's movement.

In 1914 she and other associations created the "war patent", of which she was vice-president until 1920. From 1911 to 1920 she was president of the "Business Association of Intellectual Workers and Middle Classes", which she founded, and founder of the "International Aid for Intellectual Work". After the First World War , Granitsch was Vice-President of the Austrian Women's Party, which she co-founded, and in this function was a member of the “Consultative Women's League Committee” in Geneva in 1928 .

Granitsch also dealt with questions of international tourism and, following the English and French model, founded the “Welcome Club”, which later became part of the “Welcome to Austria” tourism section of the Austrian Women's Association founded by Marianne Hainisch , of which Granitsch had been (honorary) president since 1930. was continued. As part of this women's association, lectures were held on social and economic policy, but also artistic topics, receptions and trips were organized, and a lively international exchange with scientists was maintained.

Granitsch was also honorary president of the association "Deutsche Frauenhilfe" in Salzburg , honorary member of the Society of Visual Artists in Vienna, member of numerous social and cultural associations such as the Kulturbund, the American-Austrian Society, the Political Society or the Organization of the Vienna Press as well as a member of the board of the " Mittella ”and the“ Akreva ”Ges. Mb H., in whose establishment she was involved.

According to the National Socialist ideology, Granitsch was a “ half-Jew ”. In 1938 she fled to the USA, where she was also active in the women's movement and was elected to the “Women worlds council” in Washington . In 1944 she became a US citizen.

As a writer Granitsch devoted herself mainly to the question of women and edited the "Book of Women".

Awards

In 1951, on the occasion of her 75th birthday, Granitsch received the honorary title of Vice President of the “World Womens Party”.

Publications

  • Price increase! Extended imprint from Viennese fashion. Ges. F. graph. Industry, Vienna 1912.
  • War service of women. Hugo Heller, Vienna 1915.
  • The milk with special consideration of the Viennese milk supply. Joh. N. Vernay, Vienna 1915.
  • War and luxury. Vienna 1917.

literature

  • The yearbook of the Viennese society. Biographical contributions to contemporary Viennese history. Vienna 1929.
  • Lexicon of women in two volumes. Encyclios Verlag, Zurich 1954.
  • Hilda Strauss-Gutmann, In: Wiener Zeitung, June 8, 1951, p. 4.
  • Paul Emödi, Robert Teichl (ed.): Who is who: Lexicon of Austrian contemporaries. Vienna 1937.
  • Vienna in retrospect. June 1951.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baptismal register Maria Hietzing, tom. VIII, fol. 35 ( facsimile ).
  2. ^ A b Oregon Petitions for Naturalization, 1932-1991, No. 21145.
  3. ↑ Wedding book Vienna Am Hof, tom. X, fol. 22 ( facsimile ).
  4. ↑ Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiographiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women . tape 1 . Böhlau, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 1072 ( Open Access ).
  5. ↑ Fourth report of the incumbent City Council for Culture and Science on the transfer of ownership of art and cultural objects from the collections of the museums of the City of Vienna and the Vienna City and State Library in accordance with the municipal council resolution of April 29, 1999 , p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Granitsch, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mündl, Helena Margaretha Carolina (maiden name); Mündl, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1956
Place of death Portland , Oregon , USA