Mathilde Planck

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Mathilde Planck (Photo by Alfred Hirrlinger, Stuttgart)

Johanna Friederike Mathilde Planck (born November 29, 1861 in Ulm , † July 31, 1955 in Gochsen ) was a teacher and one of the first female representatives in the state parliament of Württemberg . She is counted among the most important women of the bourgeois women's and peace movement in southwest Germany.

Life

Mathilde Planck was born as the fourth child of the professor and grammar school teacher Karl Christian Planck (1819–1880) and his wife Auguste born. Wagner (1834–1925) born in Ulm. After a few years of helping out in the parental household, she completed training as a teacher at the teachers' institute of Fräuleins von Prieser in Stuttgart from 1884 to 1886. In 1886 she passed her teacher exams in English, German and mathematics and then taught at a private school in Stuttgart until 1899. From 1906 to 1916 Mathilde Planck was chairwoman of the Württ. Teachers' Association, and from 1906 also chairwoman of the Württ Association. Women's clubs. The activist of the women's movement has been involved as editor of the magazine “Die Frauenwacht” since the early 1900s, and from 1921 to 1927 as editor of the women's supplement “Die Rosa Frau” of the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt. As a board member of the German Peace Society , she supported Frida Perlen in founding a DFG women's association in 1914 .

In 1921 she was one of the founding members of the first non-profit building society community of friends , which in 1924 traded as GdF Wüstenrot . Until 1936 she was a member of the board of directors and a member of the supervisory board and remained lifelong with the founder of the fund, Georg Kropp . Mathilde Planck built one of the first modern old people's homes in Ludwigsburg in 1930 .

politics

In 1918 Mathilde Planck was one of the founding members of the German Democratic Party (DDP) in Württemberg and at the Reich level, from 1918/1919 she was a member of the provisional Reich Executive Committee, from 1919 to 1920 and from 1925 to 1930 also of the Reich Party Committee. In 1919 she was elected to represent the DDP in the state constitutional assembly of Württemberg. From 1920 to 1928 she was a member of the state parliament .

Two Reichstag candidacies in 1919 and 1920 were unsuccessful.

In 1953 Mathilde Planck ran for the German Bundestag in the Ludwigsburg constituency . At 91, she was the oldest candidate nationwide.

Awards

In 1951 Mathilde Planck was the first woman to receive the Federal Cross of Merit . The Mathilde Planck mentoring program for the advancement of women in science was named after her.

The Ludwigsburg district named a vocational school center after Mathilde Planck (Mathilde-Planck-Schule).

Fonts

  • The professional state. According to the legal theory of Karl Chr. Planck . Diederichs, Jena 1918.
  • German future . Selected political writings, ed. v. Mathilde Planck. Three masks, Munich 1925.
  • The invisible realm . Mayer, Stuttgart 1946.
  • About the meaning of life . Hess, Ulm 1947.
  • Karl Christian Planck . Frommanns, Stuttgart 1950.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 3, No. 250, December 29, 1951.
  2. ↑ Mentoring program ( Memento of the original dated December 12, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de

literature

  • Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament - Southwest German MPs since 1919 . On behalf of the state parliament published by the state center for political education, Theiss-Verlag Stuttgart, 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8
  • Johannes Mehner: Mathilde Planck (1861–1955) . In: Birgit Knorr; Rosemarie Wehling (Ed.): “Women in the German Southwest. Writings on political regional studies of Baden-Württemberg ”. Vol. 20, Stuttgart 1993, p. 292 ff.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 670 .
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 317 f .
  • Maja Riepl-Schmidt : Mathilde Planck. Against all falsehood . In: Maja Riepl-Schmidt (Hrsg.): Against the overcooked and ironed out life. Women's emancipation in Stuttgart since 1800 . Silberburg, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-925344-64-0 , p. 150-156 .
  • Mascha Riepl-Schmidt : Mathilde Planck. For peace and women's rights , DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-87181-715-1
  • Elsbeth Stockmayer (ed.): Mathilde Planck, memories and excerpts from your works , Ludwigsburg, 1959

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personal data
SURNAME Planck, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Planck, Johanna Friederike Mathilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1955
Place of death Oxen