Laura Schradin

Laura Schradin

Laura Schradin , born penny (* 7. September 1878 in Reutlingen , † 8. March 1937 in Tübingen ) was a German women's rights activist and politician of the SPD . In 1919 she was one of the few female members of the constituent assembly of the Free People's State of Württemberg .

Live and act

Laura Pfenning was born into a poor family of vineyards ; her father was Johannes Pfenning from Reutlingen, her mother Barbara Maria Künstle from Pfrondorf . She had to contribute to the family's livelihood from an early age and was therefore forced to continue her education as an autodidact . From 1896 she worked in a weaving factory . There she met her future husband, the authorized signatory Fritz Schradin.

The young woman was already involved in the union at the age of 18 ; In 1897 she joined the SPD . Together with Elisabeth Zundel , she campaigned for women's suffrage , child protection and equal rights for women . Education issues were also important to her. Before and during the First World War , she showed herself to be a pacifist .

In 1904 she married Fritz Schradin. Their daughter Hedwig (1910–2006), born in 1910 and later wife of the prehistorian Adolf Rieth , worked as an SPD politician in Tübingen for cultural and socio-political issues and was also a well-known art collector.

In contrast to many women's rights activists who remained unmarried in order to be able to be politically and professionally active, Laura Schradin was always supported by her husband in her endeavors. They attended courses together in the “Commercial Association” and Laura attended lectures at the University of Tübingen . Fritz Schradin died on May 21, 1922.

Laura Schradin met Rosa Luxemburg at the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart in 1907 . She was in correspondence with Lily Braun and Clara Zetkin .

While Laura Schradin had spoken out clearly against the war before the outbreak of the First World War , she was more pragmatic than ideological in dealing with the situation during the war. In Reutlingen, she and her husband financed "war patching workshops", in which the workers were financially supported by higher wages in their difficult situation caused by the war. In 1917, 2200 women were employed in ten such workshops, and there was even a kindergarten for the children of the workers. However, Laura Schradin's commitment to the workshops also brought denunciations and slander against women who were not accepted, from both the church and the socialist side.

On January 13, 1919, Laura Schradin was elected for the SPD as one of 13 female MPs in the 150-seat state constitutional assembly of Württemberg. She was a member of the SPD parliamentary group executive committee , the economics committee and the elementary school committee and was involved in women's issues and social issues. In 1920 she ran for the Reichstag at number 5 on the Württemberg SPD Reichstag electoral list , but could not win a seat. Even with her candidacy for the 2nd Landtag of the Free People's State of Württemberg in May 1924 she was unsuccessful.

From 1919 on, Schradin also sat on the Reutlingen municipal council , from which she resigned in 1925 due to health problems. On February 28, 1921 she was a co-founder of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) in Reutlingen. She continued to work as a speaker, but from 1927 no longer for the SPD, but for the Reich Party for People's Law and Appreciation , as its candidate in 1932 in the election to the 4th Württemberg Landtag .

In 1933 Laura Schradin moved to Tübingen. In 1935 she was charged with "insulting the party and district leader" and sentenced to two months' imprisonment, which she could no longer serve due to illness.

Laura Schradin died of a stroke on March 8, 1937 ( International Women's Day ) at the age of 58 .

Honors

• Laura Schradin School in Reutlingen
• Laura-Schradin-Weg in Reutlingen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German parliamentarians from 1919 until today. Edited by the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-923476-15-9 , p. 97.

literature

• Andrea Kimmi-Bühler: The social question in Reutlingen as reflected in Laura Schradin's biography . In: Contributions from the National History Day in the school on November 4, 2009 in Reutlingen . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-021671-6 , pp. 123-132.
• Christina Klausmann: Schradin, Maria Laura. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische Biographien including Hohenzollern personalities , Volume I. On behalf of the Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-018500-4 , pp. 251 f. ( online )
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 834 .
• Gustav Adolf Rieth: Laura Schradin, a life for the rights of women . In: »Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter«. NF 17 (1978), pp. 7-37.

Web links

• Homepage of the Laura Schradin School Reutlingen