Ketty Guttmann

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Ketty Guttmann , also Katherina Ekey , ( April 29, 1883 in Hungen - September 25, 1967 in Wermelskirchen ) was a German left-wing politician and activist for the rights of prostitutes .

Life

Ketty Guttmann joined the SPD in Hamburg before the First World War and converted to the USPD during the November Revolution of 1918 . Guttmann, known as a meeting speaker at this time, soon afterwards joined the KPD , which she represented in the Hamburg parliament from 1921 to 1924 . In addition, she campaigned for the rights of prostitutes in Hamburg and was one of the founders and authors of the magazine Der Pranger - Organ der Hamburger Kontrollmädchen , which was published by the Hamburg Prostitute Association.

After the Hamburg uprising in October 1923, she fled to Moscow for a few months ; after returning to Hamburg, she began to criticize the policies of the KPD and the Communist International as opportunist and counter-revolutionary and was expelled from the party in August 1924. Ketty Guttmann now joined the council communist AAUE (Zwickau direction) , for which she was active in the following years. In the AAUE publication “Los von Moscow!” , She outlined their anti-organization program:

“Newspapers should be created. They are paid and the new number is issued from the money. If no one wants to read it, it's worth nothing more than to die. We don't need printing works; are taken from us in battle anyway; we take ourselves in battle if necessary. We make leaflets and agitation ourselves. We can read and write. We do not collect money for strike funds; strike without support anyway. When our comrades are caught, we gather; voluntary. We don't send anything to central cash registers. They always keep most of the salaries of people who later consider it their job to cheat us. If we need verbal communication, we call our comrades together, as many or as few of them are. - We will succeed in the struggle for economic and political power if each of us has a weapon, can use it and is determined to use it ... What the German proletariat is not shy about organization is not revolutionary ... "

- Ketty Guttmann : Los from Moscow! Hamburg oJ (1924)

She also wrote articles for the left-wing radical cultural magazine Die Harpune, edited by Heinrich Laufenberg .

In 1946/47 Guttmann, who was then living in Burscheid , kept in touch with Ruth Fischer by letter .

Fonts

  • Love and marriage. Letters from two women . Internationaler Kultur-Verlag K. Hanf, Hamburg 1922 and L. Staackmann Leipzig 1922.
  • Los from Moscow! . General Workers' Union (unitary organization), Hamburg no year (1924).
  • Woman and peace . Printed in the Karl Laufenberg book printer in Hamburg. Published by the DFG local group Burscheid (1952).

literature

Web links

  • The pillory 1920 (PDF; 65 kB)
  • Reshaping the world From: Ketty Guttmann, Woman and Peace, 1952; in: Information - Anarchist Thoughts on Politics, History and Contemporary Literature, Vol. 3, May / June 1957 (2nd cover page)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the dates of birth and death, see Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Nekrolog 1936–1970, Berlin 1972, p. 230.
  2. ↑ Syndicalism and Left Communism from 1918–1923., On the history and sociology of the Free Workers 'Union of Germany, the General Workers' Union , Hans Manfred Bock, Meisenheim am Glan 1969, p. 320; coghnorti.files.wordpress.com (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Guttmann, Ketty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ekey, Katherina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist politician and activist for the rights of prostitutes
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Hunger
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1967
Place of death Wermelskirchen