Katharina Scheven

Katharina Elisabeth Scheven (born May 31, 1861 in Zittau ; † August 6, 1922 in Dresden; born Katharina Bauch ) was one of the first female city councilors in Dresden.

Life

In 1902 she founded the Dresden branch of the International Abolitionist Federation (to abolish state-controlled prostitution). In 1902 she spoke with Anna Pappritz in Brussels at the Congres de Prophylaxie sanitaire et morale . In the same year, she presented a petition from the Association of Progressive Women's Associations to the Dresden City Council regarding the establishment of a municipal secondary school for girls or the admission of girls to higher boys' schools. In 1904 she became a co-founder and first chairwoman of the German branch of the International Abolitionist Federation. In the same year she organized the first congress of the International Federation in Dresden.

In 1909 Scheven was among the first female students in Dresden; she attended lectures by Georg Treu and Cornelius Gurlitt at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1919 she became a member of the extended federal executive board of the Federation of German Women's Associations and of the Association for Women's Education and Women's Studies . She was also active in the Dresden women's associations.

Scheven was a member of the German People's Party (DVP) and from 1919 to 1922 city councilor in Dresden.

Scheven was married to the economist Paul Scheven , the so-called "Dresden mendicant", who was also an important social politician.

Honor

In Dresden, Schevenstrasse bears her name.

literature

Una Giesecke, Jayne-Ann Igel: From Maria to Mary. Women's stories from Dresden Neustadt . ddp Goldenbogen, Dresden 1998, ISBN 3-932434-03-X .
Barbara Hillen: Scheven, Katharina, nee Bauch. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 717 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Katharina Scheven in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Stadtmuseum Dresden (ed.): 100 years of women's suffrage . Women vote in Dresden. Dresden 2019, p. 16 .
↑ Anita Maaß : Political Communication in the Weimar Republic. The Dresden City Council 1918–1933. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-371-6 , Appendix 2, p. 40. (The statement in the NDB that she was a member of the SPD is incorrect.)

personal data
SURNAME	Scheven, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bauch, Katharina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	City councilors in Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zittau
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1922
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Stadtmuseum Dresden (ed.): 100 years of women's suffrage . Women vote in Dresden. Dresden 2019, p. 16 .

[2] Anita Maaß : Political Communication in the Weimar Republic. The Dresden City Council 1918–1933. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-371-6 , Appendix 2, p. 40. (The statement in the NDB that she was a member of the SPD is incorrect.)