Julie von Kästner

Julie Alexandrine Johanna von Kästner (born September 26, 1852 in Riga ; † February 13, 1937 in Kassel ) was a German educator and women's rights activist and in 1919 one of the first six women elected to the 72-member city council of Kassel.

Honorary grave of Julie von Kästner, Kassel main cemetery

Life

Julie's parents were Karl Theodor von Kästner (1818–1882), State Councilor in the Upper Chancellery of the City Council in Riga, and his wife Sophie Luise, née. of buses. She studied in Lausanne and then returned to Riga as a teacher. After the early death of her mother in 1871, she was responsible for bringing up her sister Hanna, who was twelve years her junior.

In 1891 she came to Kassel with her sister and in July of that year she became director of the private, evangelical Wulstenschen higher girls' school founded in 1878 . In 1894 she was accepted into the Prussian Subject Association, ie into Prussian citizenship , and in 1895 she became director of the Heuschen Higher Daughter School. In 1904, the school offered at the instigation Kaestner, four-year real high-school courses to prepare for the High School of. When she retired in 1914 , the school was renamed "Kästnersches Lyceum" in her honor.

Julie von Kästner was a personal friend of Helene Lange and remained a committed advocate of women's education and women's studies. She was active as a career advisor for women at the municipal employment agency for women, which was taken over by the “Verband Casseler Frauenvereine” (VCF) in April 1902, became a member and soon afterwards head of the Kassel department of the “Verein Frauenbildung-Frauenstudium” , founded in 1900, and was a co-founder of the “ Vereinigung der Künstlerinnen Hessen-Nassau ”and, as the successor to Elisabeth Consbruch, she was chairwoman of the“ Verband Casseler Frauenvereine ”until 1932.

After the active and passive women's suffrage was introduced in Germany on November 12, 1918, she was elected city councilor on March 2, 1919, along with Elisabeth Ganslandt and Johanna Wäscher on the list of the German Democratic Party . She worked there for a legislative period up to May 4, 1924 and during this entire time she was the senior president and from 1920 to 1924 also the second secretary of the city parliament.

Honors

Julie von Kästner died on February 13, 1937; her grave of honor is located in the main cemetery in Kassel.

On the Marbachshöhe in Kassel- Wilhelmshöhe a street is named after her. There you will also find the women Minna Bernst , Elisabeth Consbruch, Johanna Wäscher and Amalie Wündisch, who were elected to the city council in 1919 , and streets named after the first Kassel city councilor Johanna Vogt , who was also elected 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 , pp. 49–53.
Jochen Lengemann : Citizens' Representation and City Government in Kassel 1835–2006. (Historical Commission for Hesse) Elwert, Marburg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86354-135-4 , p. 460.
Reinhard Wittram: Inner paths to responsibility. Memories of Julie von Kästner (1852–1937). In: The collection - magazine for culture and education . 8th year, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1953, pp. 191–196.
The higher education for girls. Lectures given at the Kassel Congress on October 11 and 12, 1907 by Helene Lange, Paula Schlodtmann, Lina Hilger, Lydia Stöcker, Julie von Kästner, Marianne Weber, Gertrud Bäumer and Marie Martin. BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1908.
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 ).

Web links

Kästner, Julie Alexandrine Johanna from in: Hessian Biography. (LAGIS)

Footnotes

↑ Statistical Yearbook of Higher Schools and Special Education Institutions in Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland, XIII. Year, first division, containing the Kingdom of Prussia. BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1892, p. 193, no. 1114.
↑ Statistical yearbook of the higher schools and curative educational institutions in Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland, XXI. Year, first division, containing the Kingdom of Prussia. BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1900, p. 215, no. 1236a.
↑ In 1923 the Lyceum was merged with the “Städtische Studienanstalt der Realgymnasiale zu Cassel” founded in 1909; the school was renamed "Lyzeum mit Studienanstalt", was named 1930 Malwida-von-Meysenbug School in 1930 and Heinrich Schütz School in 1940 ( heinrich-schuetz-schule.de ).
↑ Shortly before, at the suggestion and chaired by Auguste Förster (1848–1926), eight Kassel women's associations had come together.

personal data
SURNAME	Kästner, Julie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kästner, Julie Alexandrine Johanna von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educator and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riga
DATE OF DEATH	February 13, 1937
Place of death	kassel

[1] Statistical Yearbook of Higher Schools and Special Education Institutions in Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland, XIII. Year, first division, containing the Kingdom of Prussia. BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1892, p. 193, no. 1114.

[2] Statistical yearbook of the higher schools and curative educational institutions in Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland, XXI. Year, first division, containing the Kingdom of Prussia. BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1900, p. 215, no. 1236a.

[3] In 1923 the Lyceum was merged with the “Städtische Studienanstalt der Realgymnasiale zu Cassel” founded in 1909; the school was renamed "Lyzeum mit Studienanstalt", was named 1930 Malwida-von-Meysenbug School in 1930 and Heinrich Schütz School in 1940 ( heinrich-schuetz-schule.de ).

[4] Shortly before, at the suggestion and chaired by Auguste Förster (1848–1926), eight Kassel women's associations had come together.