Luise Kiesselbach

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Luise Kiesselbach (1892)

Luise Kiesselbach , b. Becker (born December 28, 1863 in Hanau ; † January 27, 1929 in Ebenhausen near Schäftlarn ) was a German poor carer, women's rights activist and social politician.

Life

Kiesselbach grew up as the daughter of a secondary school director and, after her mother was seriously ill, looked after her parents and seven siblings from the age of 15. She was married to the Erlangen private lecturer for ear medicine Wilhelm Kiesselbach , who died in 1902. The Kiesselbachs had a daughter Gusta (1885–1983) who was the first woman to successfully pass the medical state examination in Erlangen in 1911 .

politics

In 1909, Kiesselbach was appointed the first poor carer in Bavaria. In 1919 she was elected to the Munich City Council as a member of the German Democratic Party . She belonged to him until 1927. During her political career she was extremely committed, u. a. together with Amalie Nacken , for the interests of the bourgeois women's movement in Bavaria and in poor relief. In 1914, for example, she founded the Stadtbund Münchner Frauenverband . From 1913 to 1929 she was chairwoman of the association for women's interests in Munich founded by Ika Freudenberg . In particular, she advocated women's suffrage and women's right to education. As a city councilor, she managed to keep welfare out of the dispute between the parties. She initiated a new old people's home in Einsteinstrasse , which was well equipped for the time ; the Luise-Kiesselbach-Haus was replaced in 2006 by a new building in Munich-Riem . She also encouraged the establishment of children's homes in Schwabing and Tutzing , which still exist today under the name Tabaluga Child and Youth Welfare, and tried to improve health care. She was a co-founder of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband in Bayern and its chairwoman.

In Munich she was dubbed the city mother after she raised the question in one of her publications: Where are the city mothers ?

Honors

In memory of Kiesselbach's work, the city of Munich named a square on the Mittlerer Ring after her, under which the 1.5 km long Luise-Kiesselbach tunnel runs. The city of Erlangen honored her in 1998 with Luise-Kiesselbach-Strasse , and in 2012 her hometown of Hanau named a street in the Lamboy district after her.

The Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband Bayern has been awarding the Luise Kiesselbach Prize for civic engagement since 2008 .

Web links

literature

  • Gertrud Bäumer : Luise Kiesselbach . In: Shape and Change. Portraits of women . Herbig, Berlin 1939, pp. 709-714.
  • Manfred Berger : Kisselbach Luise, in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who der Sozialen Arbeit, Freiburg / Brsg. 1998, pp. 300-301
  • Anna Freund: Luise Kiesselbach . In: Nachrichtenblatt des Bundes Deutscher Frauenvereine , No. 2 (February) 1929, pp. 8–9.
  • Johannes Herwig-Lempp : Luise Kiesselbach (1863–1929). One of the first women in Bavarian poor relief: social worker, women's rights activist and social politician . In: Social Capital. scientific journal of Austrian universities of applied sciences courses in social work , No. 4 (2009) / section “Workshop” (December 15, 2009).
  • Hildegard Kronawitter : We continue to mortar. Luise Kiesselbach - pioneer for social welfare and women's rights. In: Jahrhundert-Münchner. A series from the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A-1-Verl., 2000. ISBN 3-927743-53-4 [1] ( SZ article dated December 20, 1999).
  • [Short biography]. In: Ariadne. Almanac of the Archives of the German Women's Movement , Issue 25, May 1994, p. 58.
  • Personal. In: Echo der Junge Demokratie , February / March 1929, pp. 53–54.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Gusta Rath (1885−1983) , Heilbronn City Archives
  2. ^ Claudia Holtkamp: Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband, Landesverband Bayern e. V. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. July 1, 2014, accessed August 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Meaning of the Hanau street names
  4. ↑ Luise Kiesselbach Prize. In: paritaet-bayern.de. Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband, Landesverband Bayern e. V. , accessed on November 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kiesselbach, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Luise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poor worker, women's rights activist and social politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1929
Place of death Ebenhausen near Schäftlarn