Julie Eichholz

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Julie Josefina Catharina Eichholz (born March 22, 1852 as Julie Josefina Catharina Levy in Zweibrücken , † December 23, 1918 in Hamburg ) was a German suffragette .

Life

Eichholz, who came from Zweibrücken, was married to the jeweler Franz Eichholz. The couple had the sons Max and Jaques (born March 24, 1884). Max Eichholz developed into a well-known lawyer and politician during the Weimar Republic . In autumn 1896 she and other women founded the Hamburg branch of the General German Women's Association (ADF), which advocated “women's interests” and established several important institutions for girls and women. Julie Eichholz was particularly involved in legal protection. She set up a corresponding department with an advice center in the association. Since the beginning of 1897, she spoke to women during a free weekly consultation hour and thus helped to improve the legal status of women, especially in marriage and property law as well as in criminal law. Eichholz took part in the legal commission of the Federation of German Women's Associations (BDF).

As chairman of the Hamburg local branch of the ADF, Eichholz tried from 1900 to 1904 to position the association within the women's movement as a “party association of the moderates”. So she wanted to create a counterpoint to the emerging "radical" currents. Eichholz got into a dispute with Helene Bonfort , who refused and wanted to unite all orientations of the women's movement in the ADF. The regulations on prostitution caused further conflicts: while Eichholz rejected any changes to the existing regulations, Bonfort called for legal reforms. The local group voted out Eichholz due to the conflict in 1904; Bonfort took the chair.

In the following years, Eichholz devoted herself to the organizations she founded, which she expanded further. These included the legal protection office, the Association of North German Women's Associations (FVN) , which had existed since 1902, and the Hamburg housewives association founded in 1904 , which was a spin-off of the ADF.

In the housewives 'association, Eichholz wanted all Hamburg housewives to campaign for proper regulation of the "servants' regulation". Although the association was able to win many members, Eichholz failed with their project. In the FVN, on the other hand, 62 clubs joined together by 1912. This worsened the conflict between Eichholz and the ADF, which had already arisen in the dispute with Helene Bonfort. In contrast to the ADF and the "radicals", Eichholz pursued the goal of building a moderate organization of the women's movement based on regional associations. As a result of the disputes, the associations founded by Eichholz left the ADF in 1911 and henceforth worked independently.

Gravestone Julie Eichholz, Jewish cemetery

As a women's rights activist, Eichholz increasingly pursued the basic idea of ​​the right to female self-determination. In 1908 she was involved in a prominent and ultimately unsuccessful legal commission of the BDF for the abolition of paragraph 218 . In 1912 she gave up the chairmanship of the VNF she had built.

As chairwoman of the housewives and legal protection association, she wrote articles on legal issues. These appeared in the Hamburg press, including in the Hamburger Frauenzeitung , which was the organ of the Hamburg housewives' association. After the death of her husband, Eichholz began paying taxes to the Hamburg Jewish community in 1913 . It can therefore be assumed that at this point in time she belonged to the municipality for the first time or again.

From 1914 until her death at the end of 1918, Eichholz only appeared occasionally in public or in women's organizations for war aid, in which the housewives' association also had a social impact. She died unexpectedly from complications from a stroke.

Julie Eichholz was buried in the Jewish cemetery Ilandkoppel in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf (grid square C9).

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  1. ↑ grave register
  2. ^ Cemetery plan
personal data
SURNAME Eichholz, Julie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichholz, Julie Josefina Catharina (full name); Levy, Julie Josefina Catharina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1918
Place of death Hamburg