Margarete Friedenthal

Margarete Friedenthal (born June 9, 1871 in Breslau ; † January 9, 1957 in West Berlin ) was a German politician ( DDP ) and an actor in the bourgeois women's movement in Berlin .

Life

Margarete Friedenthal grew up in an upper class household. By 1900 at the latest, she began to get involved in the Berlin women's movement, to which she henceforth devoted a large part of her time and manpower: In addition to her work in the Berlin branch of the International Abolitionist Federation (later the Federation for the Protection of Women and Young People ) and in the Bund Deutscher In 1907 she founded the cross-association Standing Committee for the Promotion of Workers' Interests , which she also chaired.

After the introduction of active and passive voting rights for women , she was a liberal city councilor for Berlin from 1919 to 1928, and in this role she was particularly committed to the protection of minors and the interests of girls.

With the founder and chairwoman of the Berlin branch, Anna Pappritz (1861–1939), she had a nearly forty-year-old life and work community that lasted until Pappritz's death.

She was the aunt of the writer Richard Friedenthal (1896–1979).

literature

Active Museum Association : In Front of the Door - Berlin City Councilors and Magistrate Members persecuted under National Socialism 1933–1945 , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , p. 192 f. (Here 1951 is erroneously given as the year of death).
Dorothee von Velsen : Abundance in old age. Tübingen 1956, p. 113 f.

Individual evidence

↑ List of names in the death register of the Tiergarten registry office in Berlin, LAB P Rep 820-20, death book 1957, no. 59, available online at the Berlin State Archives
↑ Emma Stropp: Women as city councilors. In: Die Gartenlaube No. 38/1919, pp. 300–302; here: 300 f.
↑ Bärbel Kuhn: Marital status : single. Singular women and men in the middle class (1850–1914). 2nd edition, Cologne a. a. 2002, p. 353, ISBN 3-412-11101-5
^ Thomas Halbe: childhood memories of Richard Friedenthal . In: Richard Friedenthal: ... and suddenly it's evening. By and about RF: essays, poems, fragments, appreciation, autobiography. Edited by Klaus Piper. Munich and Zurich 1976, pp. 213-216; here: p. 214.

personal data
SURNAME	Friedenthal, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Friedenthal, Marianne Margarethe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Women's rights activist and city councilor (DDP) in Berlin as well as chairwoman of the Berlin "Standing Committee for the Promotion of Workers' Interests"
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1957
Place of death	West Berlin

[1] List of names in the death register of the Tiergarten registry office in Berlin, LAB P Rep 820-20, death book 1957, no. 59, available online at the Berlin State Archives

[2] Emma Stropp: Women as city councilors. In: Die Gartenlaube No. 38/1919, pp. 300–302; here: 300 f.

[3] Bärbel Kuhn: Marital status : single. Singular women and men in the middle class (1850–1914). 2nd edition, Cologne a. a. 2002, p. 353, ISBN 3-412-11101-5

[4] Thomas Halbe: childhood memories of Richard Friedenthal . In: Richard Friedenthal: ... and suddenly it's evening. By and about RF: essays, poems, fragments, appreciation, autobiography. Edited by Klaus Piper. Munich and Zurich 1976, pp. 213-216; here: p. 214.