Johanna Vogt

Johanna Sophia Wilhelmine Caroline Vogt (born June 16, 1862 in Elberfeld , † March 12, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German suffragette and from 1919 the first woman on the city council of Kassel .

origin

Johanna Vogt's father Gideon Vogt (1830–1904) was a teacher at the grammar school in Elberfeld at the time of her birth . After positions as director of the humanistic state high school in the Principality of Waldeck , today's Old State School , in Korbach (1862–1867) and as director of the Royal High School in Wetzlar (1867–1870), he was appointed director of the Lyceum Fridericianum in Kassel in 1870 . Her mother Luise Sophie geb. Cauer (1840-1918) was a daughter of Paul Ehrhard Cauer (1796-1862), the tenant of the Fasanenhof state domain near Kassel. Johanna had a two years older brother, Paul August Heinrich Otto Gottfried Vogt (1860–1927), who received his doctorate and became a private scholar.

Life

Johanna Vogt grew up in Kassel and studied art history after completing her school education. She became a private teacher, taught art and art history at the adult education center and was active in the Kassel women's suffrage association, which was founded in 1913. In addition, she was primarily involved in social, educational and cultural policy. As early as 1907, she was listed as an "actionaire" (member) of the Kassel Art Association and in 1913 as a member of the Kurhessische Gesellschaft für Kunst und Wissenschaft .

She was a member of the left-liberal German Democratic Party (DDP), which emerged in 1918 from the Progressive People's Party . After the active and passive right to vote for women was introduced in Germany on November 12, 1918, Johanna Vogt was elected as the first woman in October 1919 to be a (unpaid) city councilor in Kassel.

1922–1923 she was one of the six Lutheran members (and among them the only woman) of the constitutional committee of the constituent church assembly, which worked out the joint constitution of the now Evangelical Church in Hessen-Cassel , which was now called the Evangelical Church in Hessen-Cassel , in which the Lutheran, Reformed and United Nations Congregations were united.

She stayed councilor until 1933, when the 1930 from the union of DDP with the nationalist and anti-Semitic nation National Reich Association formed German State Party (DStP) after the seizure of power of the Nazis as part of the DC circuit was dissolved on 28 June 1933 and the Prussian municipality constitutional law of December 1933 abolished the elected municipal councils.

Johanna Vogt was killed in a bomb attack on Berlin on the night of March 11-12, 1944.

Honor

On the Marbachshöhe in Kassel- Wilhelmshöhe a street is named after her. There are also the streets named after the women Minna Bernst , Elisabeth Consbruch , Julie von Kästner , Johanna Wäscher and Amalie Wündisch , who were elected to the Kassel city council in 1919 .

literature

Gilla Dölle, Cornelia Hamm-Mühl, Leonie Wagner: Women's elections: The female city councilors in Kassel 1919–1933 (= series of publications of the archive of the German women's movement ). Archive of the German women's movement, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-926068-08-6 .
Uwe Feldner: Stadt-Lexikon - (almost) everything about Kassel: from A to Z. 2nd edition, Herkules Verlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-937924-79-3 .
Info No. 36 for friends and founders of the archive of the German women's movement. Kassel, Nov. 2012, p. 5 (PDF, addf-kassel.de ).
100 year anniversary: “Women of Cassels, you have to vote!” - “Cassel's new men”: This is how the region reacted to women's suffrage. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . November 12, 2018 ( hna.de ).

Footnotes

↑ Joachim Schröder: The Museum Association for Hesse-Cassel 1903-1927 and the Kassel Museum Association 1927-1947. Kassel University Press, Kassel, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7376-5048-9 , p. 66
^ Siegfried Hermle, Harry Oelke (ed.): Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - People . tape 2 : State and provincial churches . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-647-55794-6 , p. 233 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 5, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Vogt, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vogt, Johanna Sophia Wilhelmine Caroline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH	March 12, 1944
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Joachim Schröder: The Museum Association for Hesse-Cassel 1903-1927 and the Kassel Museum Association 1927-1947. Kassel University Press, Kassel, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7376-5048-9 , p. 66

[2] Siegfried Hermle, Harry Oelke (ed.): Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - People . tape 2 : State and provincial churches . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-647-55794-6 , p. 233 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 5, 2020]).