Lina Hähnle

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Lina Hähnle (* February 3, 1851 in Sulz am Neckar as Emilie Karoline Hähnle ; † February 1, 1941 in Giengen an der Brenz ) was the founder and for almost 40 years chairwoman of the Federation for Bird Protection (BfV, today Nature Conservation Union Germany ). Her nickname, German Mother Bird, comes from this position .

Life

Hähnle was born as the daughter of the Hall saltworks inspector Johannes Hähnle (1801–1866) and his wife Karoline Friederike Rettig (1823–1900) from Balingen . In 1871 she married her cousin, the factory owner and later member of the Reichstag, Hans Hähnle , owner of the United Felt Factory in Giengen. She took care of social issues in her husband's company. In her former home she set up a crèche for the workers' children.

In 1899 she founded the Association for Bird Protection in the Stuttgart Liederhalle and took over its chairmanship. It was important to her to put the association on a broad social basis. The membership fee was set at 50 pfennigs a year to allow everyone to join. With the help of good contacts with members of the Reichstag , she succeeded in tightening the Reich Bird Protection Act in 1908 . She used the connections of her upper-class origins and her ties to the textile industry to combat the hat fashion with huge bird feathers that was widespread in the first years of the 20th century, and achieved that feather hats became démodé ( out of fashion ). In doing so, she directed her demands beyond the borders to high society and the milliners in France and the USA. US President Woodrow Wilson joined the Bird Conservation Federation.

Lina Hähnle developed the strategy still practiced today by the Naturschutzbund Deutschland and other associations of preserving bird habitats by purchasing land. The first private protected area in Germany was the Federsee in Upper Swabia .

After the National Socialists came to power, she declared at a federal general meeting in November 1933: “A victorious salvation to our People's Chancellor, who wants the Germans to heal out of their bond with nature.” Since the end of 1933, she was a member of the NS- Womenhood . The change in the association's statutes in 1934, according to which only “German citizens and people of related blood” were allowed to become members and Jews were excluded from the association, fell within their term of office. At the end of 1938 she handed over the chairmanship of the BfV to the previous Vice President Reinhard Wendehorst .

Lina Hähnle died in February 1941, two days before her 90th birthday.

Honors, memories

Lina-Hähnle-Weg in Freiburg
Memorial stone erected in 1951 in Stuttgart-Kräherwald, Lina-Hähnle-Weg

For her commitment, Lina Hähnle was given honorary citizenship of the cities of Giengen an der Brenz and Bad Buchau . A memorial stone on the Liederhalle in Stuttgart has been commemorating her since 1952 . In addition, the secondary school in Sulz am Neckar was named after Lina Hähnle in 2003. In Stuttgart-Botnang there has been the Lina-Hähnle-Weg since January 2015. The parliamentary group of the Greens in the Württemberg state parliament bears her name. NABU awards members the Lina Hähnle Medal for their special commitment to nature conservation.

family

After the Second World War, Lina Hähnle's son Hermann Hähnle rebuilt what is now the “German Association for Bird Protection”. Another son of Lina Hähne fell victim to Nazi euthanasia . Her son Eugen Hähnle (1873-1936) was a lawyer and a member of the German Reichstag .

Lina Hähnle was a cousin of Margarete Steiff , the inventor of the soft felt animals, and Richard Steiff , the inventor of the teddy bear .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c taz on March 5, 2016: Andreas Speit: Braune Vogelschützerin , p. 36 (online)
  2. ↑ https://www.nabu.de/wir-ueber-uns/organisation/geschichte/00347.html mother bird with courage. Portrait of NABU founder Lina Hähnle, in: nabu.de
  3. ↑ State Capital Stuttgart Office for Urban Planning and Urban Renewal Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): List of cultural monuments. Immovable architectural and art monuments . Stuttgart April 25, 2008, p. 120 (www.ags-s.de/pdf/Liste_Denkmaeler_Stuttgart.pdf [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Gabriele Katz: Stuttgart's strong women . Theiss, Darmstadt 2015, p. 85 .
personal data
SURNAME Hahnle, Lina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hähnle, Emilie Karoline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder of the Federation for Bird Protection
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulz am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1941
Place of death Giengen on the Brenz