Minna Bachem winner

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Minna Bachem winner, b. Sieger (born November 12, 1870 in Cologne , † April 15, 1939 there ) was a Catholic women's rights activist , poet and politician of the German Center Party .

Life

Minna Sieger, whose father Hugo Sieger came from a respected family of lawyers , while her mother Adele (née DuMont) came from a long-established Cologne publishing family, received her school education at a girls 'college on Marienplatz in Cologne and a girls' boarding school near Liège ( Belgium ).

After marrying Robert Bachem in 1891, Minna Bachem-Sieger began to get involved in the Rhineland Provincial Association of the Patriotic Women's Association of the Red Cross . In the period that followed, she played a key role in building the Cologne local club. Bachem-Sieger fought actively against the international girl trafficking together with numerous Cologne women of different denominations . In 1903 she founded the Catholic German Women's Association (KDFB). Here she placed the focus of her voluntary work on the professional design and organization of social work as well as on improving educational opportunities for the Cologne population. Under the direction of Bachem-Sieger, a youth commission was founded in January 1913, which published the journal youth education .

During this time, Bachem-Sieger also wrote numerous poems and songs, which were set to music by Max Donisch , among others . She was deputy chairwoman of the Catholic German Women's Association until 1919, after which she was a member of the board of directors. In addition, she worked from 1907 to 1917 as editor of the magazine Der Katholische Frauenbund (Frauenland).

During the First World War , the socially committed women, especially from the Cologne bourgeoisie, together with the Jewish and social democratic women, provided self-sacrificing help and social work on the “home front”. During this time, Bachem-Sieger, together with Alice Neven DuMont, organized the press and educational work to enable the economic and social survival of the women whose husbands were soldiers in the war. During this time she was the second chairwoman of the National Women's Community in Cologne.

After the First World War, she represented the German Center Party in the Cologne city ​​council until 1933 and worked primarily in the areas of culture , youth welfare and family and women's affairs . From 1921 to 1930 she headed the women's council of the Cologne Center Party and campaigned for women's suffrage . In the constituency of Cologne- Aachen she was elected chairwoman of the Provincial Advisory Board of the Rhenish Center Party in 1921 and 1931. In the 1920s, Bachem-Sieger became increasingly involved in political issues. So she fought actively in the German Women's Guard on the Rhine against the Allied occupation of the Rhineland after the Treaty of Versailles . She was an active member of the Women Against Gas War movement and publicly called for a ban on the production and use of poison gas .

Minna Bachem-Sieger had four children with the Cologne publisher Robert Bachem and lived with him in Cologne, Gereonshof 5. She died in 1939 at the age of 68.

Honors

As early as 1910, Bachem winner was honored with the Pontifical Golden Cross of Merit Pro ecclesia et pontifice . During the First World War she was awarded the Cross of Merit for War Aid and several Red Cross medals for her charitable work . After the Second World War , Minna-Bachem-Strasse in Cologne-Longerich was named after her.

Works

  • My world. Poems and songs , Cologne 1916
  • Slumber song , undated. Music by Hermann Hans Wetzler

literature

  • Karl Höber: Minna Bachem-Sieger and the German women's movement , Bachem, Cologne 1940, 96 pp.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
  • Ilona H. Winkelhausen: Bachem-Sieger, Minna , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 52

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Franken: Women in Cologne. The historical city guide . JP Bachem, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7616-2029-8 , pp. 251f.
  2. ^ Karl Höber: Minna Bachem-Sieger and the German women's movement , Bachem, Cologne 1940, p. 18
  3. ↑ a b Minna Bachem winner . In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Hrsg.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 40.
  4. ↑ Gisela Breuer: Women's movement in Catholicism: the Catholic Women's Association 1903-1918 . Volume 22 "History and Gender", Campus 1998, ISBN 978-3-5933-5886-4 , p. 81.
  5. ↑ Minna Bachem winner: My world. Poems and songs , Cologne 1916
  6. ↑ Gisela Breuer: Women's movement in Catholicism: the Catholic Women's Association 1903-1918 . Volume 22 "History and Gender", Campus 1998, ISBN 978-3-5933-5886-4 , p. 72.
  7. ↑ Irene Franken: Women in Cologne. The historical city guide . JP Bachem, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7616-2029-8 , p. 57ff.
  8. ↑ edith-stein-medien.de: Contemporary History - Minna Bachem-Sieger , accessed on January 21, 2015
  9. ^ Karl Höber: Minna Bachem-Sieger and the German women's movement , Bachem, Cologne 1940, p. 18.
personal data
SURNAME Bachem winner, Minna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winner, Minna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German suffragette, poet and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1939
Place of death Cologne