Mathilde Otto

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Mathilde Otto , actually Philippine Mathildis Otto , (born December 18, 1875 in Oberweier , † August 20, 1933 in Freiburg ) was a German politician and suffragette .

Life

Mathilde Otto was born as the daughter of the businessman Julius Otto and his wife Katharina. She attended Catholic boarding schools in Freiburg and Geneva . Then she took part in the care of her sick father in Oberweier. She completed a private degree and took her first teacher examination in 1907. Between 1910 and 1913 she completed additional training as a religion teacher in Freiburg and attended lectures in economics and political science at the University of Freiburg .

In 1912 she took over the management of the Elisabethverein in Freiburg, which looked after large families in need. In addition, from 1918 on, she became the general secretary of the Elisabeth and Women's Vinzenz associations . In 1925 she founded the St. Elisabeth Sisterhood in Freiburg, which was able to acquire the house at Freiburg Dreisamstrasse 15 as the mother house. In 1931 she founded the Reichsgemeinschaft der Elisabeth- und Frauenvinzenzvereine , of which she was deputy chairman for a year.

As youth secretary at the diocesan presidium of the Catholic female youth associations, she gave lectures and courses for women workers and caring women. From 1918 she worked for the German Caritas Association as a consultant for poor and family care.

In 1929 she founded a maternity leave for poor mothers of the middle class and the working class in the motherhouse of the Elisabeth Sisterhood, which later became the St. Elisabeth Hospital .

Mathilde Otto died in Freiburg in 1933 of cancer.

Political activity

In 1919 she was elected to the Baden National Assembly in Freiburg for the German Center Party and moved into the state parliament alongside six other female MPs, including Clara Siebert and Marianne Weber . She was a member of the Rules of Procedure committee. She had only spoken once in parliament: about measures to alleviate the housing shortage. In 1920 she resigned from office because she had too little time for her association tasks in Freiburg.

She was elected to the Freiburg City Council in 1922, to which she belonged until 1926.

Honors

The Mathilde-Otto-Platz in Freiburg-Rieselfeld

Her commitment to needy and single women and mothers made her known beyond national borders. 1924 she was by Pope Pius XI. Awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross of Honor for their social commitment .

A square is named after her in the Freiburg district of Rieselfeld .

Fonts

  • Reorientation of our female associations for family care , publishers: Caritas Association for Catholic Germany 1919, Freiburg im Breisgau.
  • Elisabeth spirit and Elisabeth work. For the 7th Centenarium the German Elisabeth- u. Women's Vinzenzvereinen , publisher: General Secretariat of the German Elisabeth- and Frauen-Vinzenzvereine 1931, Freiburg im Breisgau.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament: Southwest German parliamentarians from 1919 to today . 3. Edition. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-923476-16-9 , pp. 55 .
  2. ↑ Uwe Mauch: "Bobbele were the big city dwellers". Badische Zeitung, July 23, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto, Philippine Mathildis (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberweier
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1933
Place of death Freiburg