Ottilie Bondy

Ottilie Bondy , née Jeitteles (born July 26, 1832 in Brno , † December 5, 1921 in Munich ) was an Austrian women's rights activist and women's association official.

Life

Ottilie Bondy was the daughter of Johanna Jeitteles, née Brüll, and the Jewish doctor, writer and editor Aloys Isidor Jeitteles . In 1856 she married the merchant and manufacturer Israel Bondy (later Ignaz Bondy). After getting married in Brno, the couple moved to Vienna. Their first-born child was Ernst, the second son Alois. In 1868 their daughter Helene Bondy († 1954) was born, who she initially taught herself. Her daughter was the first teacher in Austria to take the specialist examination for teaching the blind and in 1897 married the German writer and journalist Hanns Freiherr von Gumppenberg . From 1872 to 1878 Ottilie was a member of the board of directors of the Israelitische Kinderbewahranstalt in Vienna. Together with Johanna Meynert (1837–1879) and the journalist Adolf Taussig (1838–1903) she founded the Wiener Hausfrauenverein in 1875 and was its president from 1879 after Johanna Meynert's death until 1909. She sponsored the "I. Educational Institute for Kindergarten Teachers in Vienna ”, headed the“ Israelite Girls Orphanage ”and was one of the founders of the“ School Association for Civil Servants' Daughters ”. She was chairman of the "Caritas" association and headed the servants' asylum in Favoriten , which was founded in the late 1880s. From 1883 she gave lectures in the Vienna People's Education Association and advocated women's issues in a number of publications. She published the Household Book and Memorandum , Ten Commandments of the House , House and Family Book , The Employment of the Child, and Theory and Practice in the Domestic Field (1883). In 1893 she represented the Vienna Kindergarten Association at the World Exhibition in Chicago . Her husband died in December 1893 and was buried in the Wällischbirken Jewish cemetery .

In 1902 she converted from the Jewish faith to the Evangelical Church. The Ottilie Bondy Foundation was established in her honor on the occasion of her 70th birthday.

In 1909 she moved to Munich to live with her daughter Helene, where she died in 1921.

In 2016, the Ottilie-Bondy-Promenade in Vienna's 21st district of Floridsdorf was named after her.

literature

• Katharina Migerka : Ottilie Bondy . In: The Bund. Central gazette of the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations . No. 7, July 1912 (Volume VII), pp. 3–6. (Online at ALO ).
• Bondy, b. Jeitteles, Ottilie. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 101.
• Elisabeth Malleier: Jewish women in Vienna (1816–1938): welfare - education for girls - women's work. Dissertation, Vienna 2000, pp. 14-17
• Ottilie Bondy in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edgar Krausen :  Gumppenberg, Hanns Theodor Karl Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 311 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Ottilie Bondy . In: adulteducation.at
3. ↑ Ignaz Bondy in the Find A Grave database
4. ^ Mailath: Maria-Lassnig-Straße decided . City hall correspondence of April 8, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016.