Marie Straubel

Marie Straubel , née Marie Kern (born June 30, 1865 in Gleiwitz , † April 20, 1944 in Jena ) was a German women's rights activist . Her husband was Rudolf Straubel .

Life

Marie Straubel came from a Jewish industrial family. She was born as Marie Kern in Gleiwitz in 1865. In 1894 she married the physicist Rudolf Straubel . The marriage resulted in four sons.

Marie Straubel was involved in Jena's bourgeois women's movement . Above all, she was concerned with the right of girls and women to education and to be admitted to university. In 1902 Straubel became the first chairwoman of the Jena department of the association “Women's Education - Women's Studies”.

Marie Straubel was a founding member of the Jena Art Association . The Straubel couple's house was one of Jena's meeting places for the scientifically and culturally active class with personalities such as Anna and Felix Auerbach , Walter Gropius , Margarete and Siegfried Czapski , Grete Unrein as well as Else and Ernst Abbe .

In 1933, Marie Straubel's husband Rudolf refused the politically required separation from his Jewish wife. As a consequence, he had to leave the management of the Zeiss company and retired early. After the death of her husband in December 1943, Marie Straubel received the deportation notice in the spring of 1944 . She committed suicide on April 20, 1944.

In memory of Marie Straubel, there has been a stumbling block in front of her home in Jena, Botzstraße 10, since 2010 .

literature

• Straubel, Marie and Sons , from page 463 in: Jewish Paths of Life in Jena - Memories, Fragments, Traces. Publisher: Jena City Archives in collaboration with the Jena Judaism Working Group. Published as volume 18 of the building blocks for Jena city history . Jena 2015, ISBN 978-3-942176-30-9

Web links

• Portrait in women's names for Jena's streets , catalog for the exhibition of the Towanda Jena eV women's center, Jena 2015, page 6; accessed on March 20, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Women's names for Jena's streets ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Catalog for the exhibition of the Towanda Jena eV women's center, Jena 2015, page 6; accessed on March 20, 2017 
2. ↑ http://jena.tlz.de/web/lokal/kultur/detail/-/specific/Vier-weiter-Stolpersteine-fuer-ehemalige-juedische-Mitbuerger-1351310738
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 22, 2014 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.