Julie Bassermann

Julie Bassermann , née Julie Ladenburg , (born March 2, 1860 in Mannheim ; † September 18, 1940 there ) was a German women's rights activist .

Life

Julie was born as the only daughter of the banker Carl Ladenburg and his wife Ida Goldschmidt. The family was one of the leading Jewish families in Mannheim. In 1881 she married the Mannheim lawyer and politician Ernst Bassermann . The couple had a son and three daughters.

Services

In 1897, Julie Bassermann founded the Mannheim department of the Frauenbildung-Frauenstudium association , of which she became chairwoman in 1901. With her friend Alice Bensheimer , she shaped the further development. As long-time chairwoman, she brought the Mannheim women's organizations together in one association. Bassermann was able to work with her mother, who became president of the Baden Women's Association there in 1904 . She was also involved in the housewives association. From 1911 to 1933 she was also founding chairwoman of the Baden Association for Women's Movements .

From 1912 she worked with Adelheid Steinmann in the Reich Women's Committee of the National Liberal Party . Immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914, three days after the umbrella organization, Julie founded a Mannheim branch of the National Women's Service . In 1915 a war day home was built for unemployed women and girls. She supported Marie Bernays for one year in founding a social women's school (also known as welfare schools).

Widow for two years, she failed in 1919 when she ran for the German People's Party for the Weimar National Assembly . As a result, however, she moved into the Mannheim municipal council , where she proved herself for four years as a member of the school commission and in socio-political issues.

Julie Bassermann was Reich Chairperson of the Women's Education Association until 1929, when she resigned for reasons of age. Julie Bassermann died on September 18, 1940 at the age of 80.

literature

• Jan Merk: Bassermann, Julie. Badische Biographien , NF 5, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 2-3.
• Beate Bäro: Julie Bassermann. Pioneer of the women's movement . In: Lots of women. Detected in Baden-Württemberg. 47 portraits, Stuttgart: Theiss 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1525-1 , pp. 10-13

Web links

• Julie Bassermann in the personal database of Baden-Württemberg
• Biography of Bassermann on the street of democracy .