Minna Bahnson

Minna Johanna Henriette Bahnson (born March 12, 1866 in Altona , † May 2, 1947 in Bremen ) was a German suffragette and politician of the DDP .

biography

Bahnson was the youngest of the four daughters of the businessman Friedrich Drenkhahn. She attended a secondary school for girls in Altona. She spent some time in Marienwerder in West Prussia . In 1896 she married the later senior building officer Karl Erasmus Bahnson (1862-1944), son of the Hamburg high school teacher Franz Wilhelm Viborg Bahnson (1826-1919). In 1903 they both moved to Bremen. Childless she was able to devote herself to women's political problems and she had first contacts to the board of the Federation of German Women's Associations (BDF), founded in 1894 .

Bahnson became a member of the board of the Association of North German Women's Associations in 1903 . In the same year she was elected secretary in the Women's Employment and Training Association (FEAV) in Bremen. In 1904 she joined the newly founded local branch of the Association for Women's Suffrage .

In 1906, together with Auguste Kirchhoff , she founded the association for mothers and babies and opened three houses for single mothers and their children.

In 1908 she took over from Ottilie Hoffmann the task she had previously performed of maintaining contacts between the FEAV and the BDF. She participated in the Women's City Association formed in 1910 . In 1915 she founded the Bremen housewives association with Auguste Kirchhoff and Helene Neesen .

In 1919 Bahnson joined the DDP, which she represented in the Bremen National Assembly , which was the constituent of the Bremen National Assembly in 1919/20 . In 1920 she was elected to the Bremen citizenship and she was active in the deputation for health and schools, in various commissions and in the committees for property and building tax, for a tram line, for the welfare system and for the nursing office. She campaigned for social policy and for equal rights for women, e.g. B. in the representation in corporations under public law and the organs of self-administration. In doing so, she had a conservative orientation.

Fighting the regulated prostitution , she represented in 1926 successfully the demand of Bremer women's movement , the Helen Street , as a serving of prostitution street to abolish.

Together with the pastor of St. Stephen's Church in Bremen, Gustav Greiffenhagen , she worked out a position paper in 1935 on the “Foundations of the Protestant Church” and presented it to the First Synod of Confessions in Bremen . During the time of National Socialism she worked together in the church district around Elisabeth Forck , Tusnelde Forck, Maria Schröder, Hedwig Baudert, Anna Dittrich and Magdalene Thimme . She was one of the important women in the Bremen women's movement .

After the Second World War , she joined the Bremen Democratic People's Party .

Honors

• The Minna-Bahnson-Weg in the Bremen district of Kattenturm was named after her on July 30, 1968 by a resolution of the Senate.

Works

• Is it desirable that § 3 be deleted from the statutes of the German Association for Women's Suffrage? Bremen [1912]. ( Digitized and full text in the German text archive )

literature

• Elfriede Bachmann: Bremische Biographie 1912-1962 , edited by the Historical Society of Bremen and the Bremen State Archives. Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen 1969, pages 22-24.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Romina Schmitter: Bahnson, Minna Johanna Henriette, b. Drenkhahn . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .