Meta Sattler

Meta Henriette Sattler (born March 11, 1867 in Bremen ; † March 15, 1958 in Bremen) was a German social worker.

biography

Sattler was the daughter of Sophie Marie Sattle and the high school professor Dr. Wilhelm Sattler (1827–1908). His sister, Henny Sattler , was a co-founder of the Bremen Women's Acquisition and Training Association and the Association Hospital for the German Red Cross . Due to the early death of her mother, she first had to take over the management of the household.

Sattler trained as a kindergarten teacher in Leipzig . She has been teaching Italian in Bremen and Jena since 1891 . She continued her education through courses in the girls' and women's groups for social aid work. She dealt with problems of social work and in 1897 became honorary managing director and in 1908 deputy chairwoman of the information center for charity , which was run by Senator Hermann Hildebrand and in the 1920s Wilhelm Kaisen . Since 1900 the information center was also active in poor relief. A list of all public and private welfare institutions in Bremen was published in 1899, 1910 and 1929. The subdivisions for women's work , women's rights advice center and home care were set up. In 1920 the information center became the central point for private welfare . Sattler took on the job as deputy head of the central office until she was 80 years old.

During World War I , Sattler held a leading position in the Central Aid Committee of the Red Cross . After the war she joined the liberal German Democratic Party (DDP). In 1919/20 she was a member of the Bremen National Assembly . She lost her fortune in the inflation of 1922/23 and she was now working full-time in the Central Office for Private Welfare until the early 1930s, when an accident made her work impossible. Since 1924 she was also responsible for the central welfare for small pensioners and since 1928 for central home care . She was an important woman in the Bremen women's movement .

Honors

• The Meta-Sattler-Strasse in Bremen- Walle was named after her.
• The school on Meta-Sattler-Strasse in Bremen bears her name.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Elisabeth Hannover-Drück : Sattler, Meta Henriette . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Marie Lindemann: Meta Henriette Sattler . In: Historische Gesellschaft Bremen , Staatsarchiv Bremen (ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962, Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 431.