Margarete Meseritz-Edelheim

Margarete Meseritz-Edelheim (born Margarete Meseritz September 18, 1891 in Berlin ; died May 26, 1975 in New York City ) was a German lawyer, journalist and suffragette.

Life

Margarete Meseritz was a daughter of the factory owner Hugo Meseritz and the women's rights activist Alisa Meseritz. In 1913 she received her doctorate in law from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . She was co-founder and chairwoman of the German Association of Women Lawyers. She married the socialist John Edelheim in 1918, who died in 1931. In 1946 she married the doctor Eduard Muehsam (1897–1977) in her second marriage .

In the Weimar Republic she was committed to the politicization of women.

After the transfer of power to the Nazis in 1933 she was allowed because editors law work only for the Jewish press from 1934 and was deputy editor of the CV newspaper . When the situation for Germans with Jewish ancestry in the National Socialist German Reich became life-threatening, she emigrated to the USA in 1938 .

literature

• Muehsam-Edelheim, Margaret T. , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 511

Web links

• Margarete Muehsam-Edelheim , at Jewish Women's Archive (JWA)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oda Cordes: Women as pioneers of the law. The first German women lawyers and their demands for reform in the Weimar Republic . Hamburg 2012, p. 46 .
2. ↑ Margarete Meseritz: The women and the parties . Ed .: Vossische Zeitung. January 18, 1919.
3. ↑ Berlin.de: Margarete Meseritz-Edelheim ( Memento of the original dated November 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 16, 2017)