Martha Tausk
Martha Tausk (born January 15, 1881 in Vienna as Martha Frisch; † October 20, 1957 in Nijmegen ) was an Austrian politician ( SDAP ), journalist and women's rights activist.
In November 1918 she was the first woman to be a member of the Styrian provisional state assembly, even before the proclamation of women's suffrage. In 1919 Martha Tausk was elected to the Styrian state parliament. In 1927/28 she was a member of the Federal Council .
Life
Her father Moritz Frisch (1849–1913) ran a small print shop in which the first issues of the social democratic workers' newspaper were printed, and in 1900 became a partner in Vorwärts-Verlag . Her mother was a member of the board of directors of the General Austrian Women's Association . Martha Tausk was confronted with the concerns of the workers' and women's movements at an early stage.
She attended business school and, together with her brother Justinian, received private lessons from Marianne and Auguste Fickert . During school she was friends with Lise Meitner .
In 1900 she married the later psychoanalyst Victor Tausk (1879-1919), from whom she was divorced in 1908. She had two sons.
In 1928 Martha Tausk was brought to the Socialist Workers International in Zurich by Friedrich Adler . There she headed the newly created periodical Frauenrecht - newspaper for the working women of Switzerland .
From persecution by the Gestapo, she fled to her son in Holland in 1939 and then to Brazil . After the war she returned to the Netherlands .
Fonts
- Pernambuco and other things . Cooperative bookstore, Zurich 1930. ( Microfiche edition: ISBN 3-628-11304-0 ).
Honors
- Martha Tausk Park in Graz is named after her.
literature
- Brigitte Dorfer: The life journey of Martha Tausk. Social democracy and women's rights in focus . Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4539-6 .
- Gabriella Hauch: The discreet charm of the secondary contradiction. On the social democratic women's movement before 1918 . In: Wolfgang Maderthaner (Ed.): Social Democracy and the Habsburg State . ( Socialist Library , Department 1: The History of Austrian Social Democracy , Volume 1.1988, ZDB -ID 1193603-4 ). Löcker, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-85409-135-4 , pp. 101-118.
- Gabriella Hauch: From the women's point of view. Women in Parliament 1919–1933 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85115-216-6 .
- Heinz Mang: Styria's Social Democrats in the Storm of Time. Biographies, dates, facts, election results . Published on the occasion of the centenary of the Austrian social democracy. Self-published, Graz 1988, ISBN 3-900859-00-0 .
- Karin M. Schmidlechner, Anita Ziegerhofer, Michaela Sohn-Kronthaler, Ute Sonnleitner, Elisabeth Holzer: History of women in Styria. From the middle of the 19th century to the present . Leykam Buchverlagsges. mb H. Nfg. & Co. KG, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-7011-0323-2 .
Web links
- Martha Tausk on the website of the Austrian Parliament
- Literature by and about Martha Tausk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Martha Tausk. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
- http://woment.mur.at/netz/23orte/text_Martha_Tausk.html
- http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensions/id=10848&count=6759&recno=2&type=rezbuecher&sort=date&order=down
- Martha Tausk died . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 27, 1957, p. 2 , bottom right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
Individual evidence
- ^ Ariadne project “Women in Movement”: Tausk, Martha gb. Frisch ( Memento from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ ZDB -ID 1448471-7 .
- ↑ http://www.opencaching.de/viewcache.php?wp=OC29C4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tausk, Martha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frisch, Martha (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician, member of the Federal Council and women's rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1957 |
| Place of death | Nijmegen |