Jenny Apolant

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Jenny Apolant (born April 5, 1874 in Berlin as Jenny Rathenau; † June 5, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a pioneer of communal work for women and women's suffrage as well as a politician of the liberal democratic direction.

Life

The information center for municipal offices used questionnaires to collect data from the ADF's wife on the social, political and legal situation in order to statistically substantiate claims (here 1908)

Jenny Rathenau was the daughter of Albert and Johanna Rathenau, nee Baswitz, and granddaughter of Moritz Rathenau . Jenny Rathenau married the doctor and cancer researcher Hugo Apolant (1866–1915) in 1900 and moved with him from Berlin to Frankfurt. Their daughter Sophie (1900–1970) was born in the same year.

From 1907 she headed the “Central Office for Women’s Community Offices” set up by the General German Women’s Association (ADF). From 1910 until her death she was a member of the board of directors of the ADF. She founded a job agency for “paid female welfare work”, introduced hospital care in Frankfurt, founded non-alcoholic restaurants and carried out research on women in poor and orphan care, schools and housing. She was a member of the school board of the “Women's Seminar for Social Work”, the training center for welfare workers in Frankfurt. She was also the editor of the monthly “Frau in der Gemeinde”.

Burial place

From 1919 to 1924 she was city ​​councilor of the DDP in the Frankfurt city council.

She was a member of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith . She is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Her cousin was German Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau , who fell victim to a political assassination attempt in 1922 , and her cousin Josephine Levy-Rathenau , the head of the Women's Professional Office.

Fonts

  • Position and collaboration of women in the community , Leipzig: Teubner 1912
  • Local women's suffrage in the German federal states , Leipzig: Teubner 1918

literature

  • Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg (ed.): Jewish women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Lexicon to life and work , Reinbek 1993. ISBN 3-499-16344-6
  • Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work. Freiburg im Breisgau 1998. ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 .
  • Regina Scheer : We are the Liebermanns , Berlin 2010 (4th edition of the paperback edition).
  • Dieter G. Maier; Jürgen Nürnberger: Jenny Apolant. For women's suffrage and participation in the community. Hentrich and Hentrich, Berlin 2018. (Jewish miniatures; 226). ISBN 978-3-95565-283-8 .
  • Christina Klausmann: Politics and culture of the women's movement in the empire . Frankfurt am Main 1997. ISBN 3-593-35758-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Brother" by Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg: Jewish women in the 19th and 20th centuries , p. 21 and the literature based on it (Maier)
personal data
SURNAME Apolant, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1925
Place of death Frankfurt am Main