Jeanette Schwerin

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Jeannette Schwerin around 1890

Jeanette Schwerin (actually: Jeannette Schwerin , born: Abarbanell ; * November 21, 1852 in Berlin ; † July 14, 1899 there ) was a women's rights activist and a pioneer of social work in Germany.

Live and act

After her son grew up, Jeanette Schwerin got involved in social aid work and in the women's movement . In 1888 she joined the Frauenwohl association and, together with her husband, was one of the founding members of the “German Society for Ethical Culture” in 1892, which later became the Berlin Central Office for Private Welfare . The aim of the society was to reform private charity. Shortly after the founding of the association, Jeanette Schwerin set up an information center that collected material about Berlin's welfare institutions in order to help and mediate those in need better and faster.

Together with the women's rights activist Minna Cauer , she took the initiative in 1893 to found girls' and women's groups for social aid work . After four years, Jeanette Schwerin was appointed chairman of the groups:

“Here she sets trend-setting accents by preparing young women who sign up for voluntary help in theory and practice for professional social work. Women should no longer cause damage as extras in charity sport and should be rejected as incompetent by the heads of the official poor relief "

- Dick / Sassenberg 1993, p. 341.

In 1893 an information center of the German Society for Ethical Culture eV was founded under their leadership, now known as DZI .

In 1894, Jeanette Schwerin, as chairwoman of the “Commission for Female Trade Inspection” of the Federation of German Women's Associations, petitioned the German Reichstag for the approval of female trade inspectors. As a board member (from 1896) in the Federation of German Women's Associations , she campaigned for cooperation between the bourgeois and the proletarian women's movement . Shortly before her death, she was able to publish the first issue of the Centralblatt of the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine . In addition, she expanded the groups' “Berlin courses” into an “annual training course for social professional work”. Her successor was Alice Salomon , who joined the groups in 1895 and soon became Mrs. Schwerin's right-hand man.

Works (selection)

  • The information center of the German Society for Ethical Culture . In: Communications from the German Society for Ethical Culture . 1894, No. 2, pp. 77-81.
  • Poverty and poor relief . In: The woman . 1894, No. 3, pp. 86-90.
  • Our task on strike . In: The women's movement . 1896, issue 2, p. 57.

literature

  • Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg (ed.): Jewish women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Lexicon to life and work , Reinbek bei Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-499-16344-6 , (rororo; 6344), pp. 340–342.
  • Maya Fassmann: Jewish Women in the German Women's Movement 1865-1919 . Olms, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-09666-8 (= Haskala , Volume 6).
  • Manfred Berger : Who was ... Jeanette Schwerin . In: social magazine . 1999 / H. 7. pp. 6-8.
  • Norbert Rühle: Jeanette Schwerin. Their life, their work and their significance for social work today . Freising 2001 (unpublished diploma thesis).
  • Iris Schröder: work for a better world. Women's movement and social reform 1890–1914. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2001, pp. 82–91, ISBN 3-593-36783-1 (= history and gender , volume 36; also dissertation FU Berlin 2001).
  • Dieter G. Maier, Jürgen Nürnberger: Jeannette Schwerin. Through education to social reform and emancipation . Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich 2016. ( Jewish miniatures , volume 190). ISBN 978-3-95565-171-8 .
  • Peter Reinicke : Schwerin, Jeanette , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 543f.

Individual evidence

  1. John Schwaderer - www.sitegraph.de: German Central Institute for Social Issues "story. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
  2. Rühle 2001, p. 9