Catholic German Women's Association
The Catholic German Women's Association ( KDFB for short ) is a registered association of women committed to Catholic and ecumenical matters with around 180,000 members across Germany in 1,800 branches spread across 21 dioceses. According to its own account, the aim of the association is to help build a society and church in which women and men live together in partnership and jointly bear responsibility for the future in a peaceful, just and livable world.
history
founding
The KDFB (1903–1916: Katholischer Frauenbund (KFB), 1916–1921: Katholischer Frauenbund Deutschlands (KFD), 1921–1983: Katholischer Deutscher Frauenbund, KDF) was founded on November 16, 1903 in Cologne as part of the women's movement of that time . The founding chairman from 1903 to 1912 was Emilie Hopmann . Minna Bachem-Sieger (1903-1919) and Hedwig Dransfeld (1912-1925), who entered the Reichstag in 1919 as one of the first women, were co-founders and vice chairmen of the Catholic Women's Association in Cologne .
Dransfeld worked closely with the Swedish-German women's rights activist Ellen Ammann . In 1904 (in the same year as Emy Gordon in Würzburg ) Ammann founded the branch association of the Catholic Women's Association in Munich . On her initiative and with the support of many other women such as Marie Zettler and Countess Pauline von Montgelas , all existing Bavarian branches joined together on December 6, 1911 to form the “Bavarian State Association of the Catholic Women's Association”, which in 2018 with 165,000 women became the KDFB unit with the largest number of members counts. The Catholic Women's Association made contact with international associations early on and in 1910 became a founding member of the International League, today the World Union of Catholic Women's Organizations (WUCWO / UMOFC).
activities
The Catholic German Women's Association has around 180,000 members nationwide in over 1,800 branch associations spread across 21 dioceses. The women's association offers an educational program that is tailored to the needs of women, practical support and concrete help in difficult life situations as well as information and exchange on important issues relating to society, politics and the church. Women of the KDFB organize church services, devotions and pilgrimages. They also take part in the World Women's Day of Prayer every year . The Catholic German Women's Association offers a range of seminars on spiritual and biblical topics.
After the active and passive right to vote for women was introduced in Germany in November 1918, Ellen Ammann, who founded the Munich branch of the Catholic Women's Association in 1904 and established the Bavarian State Association of the Catholic Women's Association in 1911, became one of the first female members of the Bavarian State Parliament . To this day, KDFB women not only work in state parliaments, but also in the Bundestag, in district parliaments, district parliaments and as city councilors.
An important goal of the Catholic German Women's Association is to impart basic political knowledge to women, to familiarize them with current political and social issues and developments and to train their ability to argue and discuss. Socio-political education work should also help women become aware of their social and political responsibility as Christians and motivate them to actively participate in social and political life. As part of its socio-political education work, the women's association regularly takes a public position on current issues relevant to women's politics.
In Berlin, a multigenerational house is run for single women of all ages, such as students, professionals and senior citizens.
The Catholic German Women's Federation calls for the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church and calls for a reform of the Roman Catholic doctrine of sexual morality .
The association advocates the blessing of same-sex couples within the Catholic Church.
Educational offers
The Frauenbund offers a wide range of educational programs for women, for example
- Training for lunchtime carers, day mothers and leaders of mother-child groups
- Training as a discussion group and course leader, among other things for grief counseling and quality of life for old age
- Study trips
- Weekend seminars for single parents (with childcare)
Continuing education in the fields
- Public relations, rhetoric and conflict resolution
- Advice on all consumer issues (including legal, environmental and nutritional advice), household training
- Mentoring projects
Help in difficult life situations
The women's association also takes care of people who are in a difficult life situation. The KDFB offers z. B .:
- Discussion groups and seminars for mourners
- Elderly and sick visiting services
- Oasis days for caring relatives
- Discussion groups for young mothers
- Placement of child minders
The family care work of the KDFB (Bavaria) helps families in critical situations. The family carers look after the children and do the housework, for example
- when the mother is sick or overworked
- in the case of hospital or spa stays
- in high-risk pregnancy and after delivery
Networking
The KDFB represents the interests of women in numerous bodies:
- in the Central Committee of German Catholics
- in the German Women's Council
- in the Ecumenical Forum of Christian Women in Europe
- in the World Union of Catholic Women's Associations (WUCWO)
- in the German Committee of the World Day of Prayer
At the international level, the women's association is a founding member of the World Union of Catholic Women's Associations (WUCWO). He also sends a representative to the Council of Europe and works with the aid organizations Misereor , missio , Adveniat , the Pontifical Mission of Women and Renovabis , among others .
Specifically, the women's association supports, for example
- Coffee farmers in Honduras thanks to the fair trade KDFB coffee
- People in need in Estonia, among other things by setting up a debt counseling service, a soup kitchen and a youth facility
- a used clothing project in Romania that also creates jobs
- through the fasting campaign "7 weeks with ..." regional and fair trade
In addition, the women's association is a co-sponsor of the campaign for “clean clothing”, which aims to improve working conditions in the textile industry worldwide. Members of the women's association work with Solwodi against trafficking in women and sex tourism. You are a partner of Al Tufula, a peace project for Palestinian women in Israel.
Well-known KDFB women
- In 1909, Ellen Ammann founded the “Sozial-Charitative Frauenschule” in Munich (today the Catholic Foundation University of Applied Sciences in Munich ) in order to professionally train women to take on social and charitable tasks. Ammann was one of the first women to be elected to the Bavarian state parliament in 1919 .
- Dorothee Bär , member of the German Bundestag (since 2002) and since 2009 spokeswoman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group for families, senior citizens, women and youth, since December 2013 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure .
- Sybille Benning , member of the German Bundestag (since 2013).
- Mathilde Berghofer-Weichner became the first female minister in the Bavarian state government (1974).
- Aenne Brauksiepe , Member of the German Bundestag (1949–1972) and Federal Minister for Families and Youth (1968/1969)
- Britta Dassler , member of the German Bundestag (since 2017)
- Marie-Luise Dött , member of the German Bundestag (since 1998)
- Hedwig Dransfeld , German women's rights activist , politician and author .
- Gertrud Ehrle , Honorary President of the KDFB
- Maria Flachsbarth , member of the German Bundestag (since 2002), President of the KDFB since October 16, 2011, member of the Central Committee of German Catholics since 2011 , Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture since 2013 .
- Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne , important programmer
- Monika Grütters , member of the German Bundestag (since 1998), Minister of State to the Chancellor and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
- Rita Hagl-Kehl , member of the German Bundestag (since 2013)
- Marita Loersch , co-founder
- Gerta Krabbel , from 1925 to 1952 federal chairwoman and then honorary chairwoman of the KDF, editor of the monthly magazine "Christliche Frau"
- Pauline von Montgelas , was committed to improving the working conditions of servants, waitresses and homeworkers.
- Barbara Renz worked in the Munich Catholic Women's Association and founded branches in Münster and Dillingen on the Danube .
- Marianne Schieder , member of the German Bundestag (since 2005)
- Christine Teusch , youngest member of the National Assembly from 1919, member of the Reichstag (1920–1933) and one of the first women in a ministerial office ( Minister of Education in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1947 to 1954)
- Therese von Bayern was an honorary member of the Catholic Women's Association.
- Helene Weber , a German politician and one of the four “ mothers of the Basic Law ”, fought for the sentence “Men and women have equal rights” in the constitution of the FRG.
- Anja Weisgerber , member of the German Bundestag (since 2013), awarded the Bavarian Europe Medal in 2008 .
- Annette Widmann-Mauz , Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health in the Merkel II and Merkel III cabinets since 2009 .
- Zita Zehner was a German politician. Between 1946 and 1970 she was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the CSU.
- Marie Zettler , member of the German Center Party and member of the National Assembly from 1919
- Emmi Zeulner , member of the German Bundestag (since 2013)
media
- Woman's Prism (1969–1981)
- Members' magazine Engagiert - The Christian Woman
literature
- Regina Illemann: Catholic women's movement in Germany 1945–1962. Politics, gender and religiosity in the Catholic German Women's Association . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78428-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Federal Association: We about us. Katholischer Deutscher Frauenbund, 2018, accessed on September 6, 2018 .
- ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247, here: p. 1235.
- ↑ About us. Retrieved July 10, 2018 .
- ↑ KDFB Berlin | Multi-generation home Helene Weber. In: www.kdfb-berlin.de. Retrieved July 4, 2017 .
- ↑ kirche-und-leben.de: Catholic women's association in Münster looks to Synodal Way , November 28, 2019.
- ↑ Frauenbund.de: Debate about “marriage for everyone” ( memento of the original from January 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Katholischer Deutscher Frauenbund | Take responsibility for democracy. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 15, 2017 ; accessed on November 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
