Henriette Herzfelder

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Henriette Herzfelder (born April 16, 1865 in Brno , † June 14, 1927 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer and women's rights activist .

Life

Henriette Herzfelder came from a long-established Jewish family in Brno who had already been emancipated at the time of Emperor Joseph II's Edict of Tolerance , as assimilation was called at the time. Her father ran a factory in Brno for the production of rapeseed oil, which was used for the use of lamps. Her mother died young and the father married a second time. Herzfelder had two sisters and a half-sister, of whom her sister Jenny, who was murdered by the National Socialists , was particularly close. Herzfelder resigned from Judaism in 1912 and became a non-denominational member.

Act

Heart Fields was 1905-1915 editor of the organ of the Federal Austrian Women's Associations (BöFV) The federal government , also head of the Press Commission and a board member of the Federation and 1,911 in charge until 1918 editor of the magazine for women's suffrage and the board of the 1905 co-founded her women's suffrage committee. In Brno she took part in the development of structures for women’s movements and was at times secretary and later an honorary member of the “Frauenbund” in Brno. In addition to women's suffrage, Herzfelder was committed to child welfare, in particular the Youth Welfare Act, and was a secretary and member of the standing committee of the Central Office for Child Protection and Child Welfare, where she u. a. edited the "Journal for Child Protection and Youth Welfare" of the Central Office. She has written numerous essays on women's and youth problems and gender politics, and was an advocate of American welfare systems.

Publications

  • Brno women's associations. In: New women's life. No. 11, 1902.
  • The Federation: Central Gazette of the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations . Vienna 1905–1919 (editor and numerous articles).
  • Magazine for women's suffrage . Vienna 1911–1918 (editor).
  • The common education of the sexes. Leipzig 1907.
  • Women's movement and sexual ethics. (Review of the book of the same name). In: The Bund. 4th vol., No. 6, 1909, pp. 14-15.
  • Colorado Child Protection Acts and the Denver Juvenile Court. Leipzig 1910.
  • An American state of education. (The George Junior Republic). Leipzig 1912.
  • The right of the illegitimate child in the new Swiss civil code. Leipzig 1913.
  • Organized motherhood. Leipzig 1914.
  • School and military force. Lecture given in the Social Pedagogical Society on October 29, 1915. With an appendix to professional judgments on military education for young people by Henriette Herzfelder. Vienna 1916.
  • The socialization of our youth rights. Vienna 1918.
  • Carl Brockhausen (Ed.): Austria in words and pictures. With the participation of Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven, Elsa Brockhausen, Henriette Herzfelder. Vienna 1924.

literature

  • Herzfelder Henriette. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 298.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 .
  • Caroline Gronemann as founder and president of the Association of Working Women. In: Österreichische Frauen-Rundschau. 9th year, No. 90, 1911, p. 1.
  • Women's suffrage: Festschrift. Vienna 1913, p. 7.
  • Festschrift: 25 years of the union of working women in Vienna. Publishing house d. Association, Vienna 1927.
  • Bruno Jahn (adaptation): The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 .
  • Elisabeth Malleier: Jewish women in the Viennese bourgeois women's movement 1890–1938. Research report, 2001, pp. 42-48.
  • Elisabeth Malleier: Forgotten Differences. Jewish women in the Habsburg Monarchy. In: Andrea M. Lauritsch (Ed.): Zions Töchter. Jewish women in literature, art and politics Lit Verlag , Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8666-2 , pp. 355–369.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elisabeth Malleier: Jewish women in the Viennese bourgeois women's movement 1890–1938. Research report, 2001, pp. 42-48.
personal data
SURNAME Herzfelder, Henriette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1927
Place of death Vienna