Luitgard sky lifter

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Luitgard Himmelträger with their two youngest children Dorle and Hans , around 1910.

Luitgard Himmelträger (born April 27, 1874 - March 1, 1959 ) was a women's rights activist and politician from Karlsruhe .

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The daughter of the professor of hydraulic engineering and Baden's finance minister Max Honsell campaigned for the education of girls and women. Her commitment was to founding the first German girls' high school in Karlsruhe in 1893. Establishing a boarding school was particularly important to her , so that girls outside the city could also get access to higher education. Up until old age she personally invited girls from boarding school to her weekend house in Bernbach .

From 1902 to 1919 she headed the Karlsruhe group of the association “Women's Education - Women's Studies” .

She was a co-founder of the German Democratic Party and from 1919 to 1924 she was one of the first women to sit on the Karlsruhe Citizens' Committee, the city parliament. An election call as an eight-page leaflet is available online under the heading “Thoughts for a German-Democratic Women's Speech” by Luitgard Himmelträger in the General State Archives in Karlsruhe .

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  1. ↑ Luitgard Himmelträger: O No. 726, 1 leaflet - "Thoughts for a German-Democratic Women's Speech" by Luitgard Himmelträger - Baden-Württemberg State Archive, Department General State Archive Karlsruhe - Documents. In: landesarchiv-bw.de. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
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SURNAME Sky lifter, Luitgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist and politician (DDP)
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1874
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1959