Margarete Countess Keyserlingk

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Margarete Countess Keyserlingk , b. Hirt (born June 13, 1879 at Gut Cammerau near Schweidnitz , Silesia ; † February 13, 1958 in Baden-Baden ) was a German suffragette and DNVP politician.

She was the only child of Wilhelm Hirt (1847–1908), who owned the Cammerau estate, was a co-founder of the Association of Farmers and a member of the Prussian state parliament. At 21, she married the then district administrator of the district Fischhausen in what was then Samland , Robert von Keyserlingk-Cammerau , who later became President of the Government of the governmental district Königsberg was and 1918 the DNVP founded.

From 1924 Keyserlingk represented the rural women’s association in the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine , where she tried to bring German national women closer to the Bund.

She founded the headquarters of the rural women and represented the German women's movement at the international women's congress in Washington in 1925; In 1927 she and her husband went to Rome for the conference of the International Agricultural Institute. In 1929 she was a co-founder of the World Rural Women's Association with 5.5 million members. In 1950 she was made an honorary member in Copenhagen .

At first she lived at Cammerau Castle near Schweidnitz; In 1945 she was expelled and then lived in Baden-Baden, where she died with her family in 1958. She left her husband, children and grandchildren together.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hella Ostermeyer:  Shepherd, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 233 f. ( Digitized version ). (Article on Margarete Countess Keyserlingk's grandfather Ferdinand Hirt)
  2. ^ Christiane Streubel: Radical Nationalists: Agitation and Programmatics of Right-Wing Women in the Weimar Republic , p. 250 ( excerpt from Google Books )
  3. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 263
personal data
SURNAME Keyserlingk, Margarete Countess
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shepherd, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Cammerau near Schweidnitz , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1958
Place of death Baden-Baden