Kathe Gaebel

Käthe Gaebel (born August 23, 1879 in Graudenz , † March 22, 1962 in Berlin ) was a German women's rights activist, national economist , career advisor and researcher of home work .

Life

The daughter of a bookseller was active in the home workers' union in Frankfurt am Main from 1909 . In addition to her job, she attended lectures at the Academy in Frankfurt in the winter semester 1909/10 and summer semester 1910. From autumn 1910 she studied economics at the University of Tübingen and did her doctorate in 1912 under Robert Wilbrandt .

From around 1914 Käthe Gaebel worked in the office for social policy and from around 1919 headed the information center for home work reform in Berlin, supported by the Association for Social Policy . As the successor to Josephine Levy-Rathenau , from 1921/22 she headed the women's employment office of the Federation of German Women's Associations , which at times also served as the office of the cartel of information centers for women's professions.

In 1922 Käthe Gaebel joined the Reich Labor Administration and became the main consultant for career counseling in the Reich Employment Agency (from 1927: Headquarters of the Reich Employment Agency and Unemployment Insurance ). In 1933 she was transferred to the State Labor Office in Berlin-Brandenburg and worked, until she reached the age limit, in the position of senior government councilor, as a women's officer and statistics officer.

In her numerous essays, she dealt with the problems of homeworkers and women in nursing, later mainly questions of female career counseling and apprenticeship placement.

Fonts (selection)

• (Ed.): The situation of homeworkers: according to the surveys of the union of homeworkers in Germany in 1907 and 1912 . Berlin [1912].
• Home work: the most recent problem of worker protection . Tübingen, Univ., Diss. 1912.
• The importance of homework for war widows . In: The welfare of war injured persons and warrior survivors, vol. 5, 1920/21, no. 1, pp. 6–13.
• The woman in nursing . Edited by Käthe Gaebel in the Women's Employment Office of the Federation of German Women's Associations, with the assistance of Else Sander . Mannheim [u. a.] 1923.
• The secondary nursing jobs . Mannheim [u. a.] 1925.
• Career counseling . In: Ludwig Heyde (Hrsg.): International dictionary of trade unions . Vol. 1. Verl. Werk und Wirtschaft, Berlin 1931, pp. 214–217.

literature

• Walter Stets: Dr. Kaethe Gaebel 80 years old . In: work, occupation and unemployment assistance - the employment office . 10 (1959). 11 (November), p. 255
• Congratulations to Dr. Kathe Gaebel . In: Social Progress , 8, 1959, H. 9 (September), p. 216.
• Walter Stets: Dr. Käthe Gaebel † . In: work, occupation and unemployment assistance - the employment office . 13 (1962) H. 6, p. 135.
• In memory of Dr. Kathe Gaebel . In: Social Progress , 1, 1962, no. 4, p. 82.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 53 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
• Peter Reinicke : Gaebel, Kaethe , in: Hugo Maier (Hrsg.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 195f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Käthe Gaebel in the catalog of the German National Library