Maria Lischnewska

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Maria Lischnewska (* 1854 in Danzig ; † 1938 in Potsdam ) was a German teacher, women's rights activist and politician.

Maria Lischnewska was a representative of the reform movement around 1900 in the German Empire. She belonged to the radical Berlin women's movement, which also included Minna Cauer , Anita Augspurg and Else Lüders , but advocated an understanding with the bourgeois women's movement.

Women's education and women's rights

Maria Lischnewska, who was a trained teacher, was particularly committed to the education of women and girls from the lower classes. This is the goal of the association led by Lischnewska for the craft and technical training of women .

In 1894, Lischnewska and Elisabeth Schneider founded the State Association of Prussian Elementary School Teachers, which 30 percent of the teachers affected (3,000 people) joined within a short time.

In 1899 she was involved in the founding of the Association of Progressive Women’s Associations . a. campaigned for women's suffrage .

When waistband for maternity , in which they temporarily held the Presidency, she worked closely with Helene Stocker together. She campaigned against the principle of celibacy for teachers .

politician

In 1907 Lischnewska founded the Liberal Women's Party in Germany , which advocated women's suffrage .

Lischnewska was a member of the Free People's Party .

Fonts

literature

  • Marianne Friese: Maria Lischnewska and Dora Landé (1861–1923), in: Elke Kleinau and Christine Mayer (eds.): Upbringing and education of the female sex. An annotated collection of sources on the education and training history of girls and women. Weinheim 1996.
  • Schüller, Elke: Women's parties. Fantasy or a political power factor? - In: Ariadne, June 2000, issue 37-38, pp. 64-65.
  • Briatte-Peters, Anne-Laure: Only "half and quarter friends"? - The leaders of the radical women's movement over the liberals in the German Empire. - In: Yearbook on Liberalism Research; 25th year 2013. - Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2013, pp. 197–198.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Reh: The teacher. Female officials and celibacy, in: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte XI / 1 Spring 2017, p. 36
  2. ↑ Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer: Handbook of women movement. Berlin: Moeser, 1901, p. 128.
  3. ↑ Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer: Handbuch der Frauenbewegung, p. 155, URL: Berlin: Moeser, 1901. https://archive.org/stream/ Handbuchderfrau04ratgoog#page/n8/mode/ 2up
  4. ↑ Andrea Purpus: Women's work in the lower classes. Life and work environment Hamburg maids and workers around 1900. Münster 2000, 237–240; Volkmar Sigusch : History of Sexology . Frankfurt: Campus, 2008, p. 84 f.
  5. ^ Claudia Huerkamp: Bildungsbürgerinnen: Women in studies and academic professions. 1900-1945. Göttingen 1994, p. 215.
  6. ^ Barbara Greven-Aschoff: The bourgeois women's movement in Germany. 1894–1933 (= Critical Studies in History , Vol. 46). Göttingen 1981, 135 u. 145 digitized ; However, the exact date of foundation is unknown or there are contradicting statements about it, Angelika Schaser: Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer. A political community. Cologne: Böhlau, 2010, p. 143.
  7. ^ Barbara Greven-Aschoff: The bourgeois women's movement in Germany. 1894–1933 (= Critical Studies in History , Vol. 46). Göttingen 1981, 143th digitized version
personal data
SURNAME Lischnewska, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH before 1880
DATE OF DEATH after 1915