Ottilie von Hansemann

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Ottilie von Hansemann

Ottilie von Hansemann born von Kusserow (born April 11, 1840 in Koblenz , † December 12, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German women's rights activist and, since 1860, the wife of entrepreneur Adolph von Hansemann . As a significant sponsor of the women's movement in Prussia , she was a pioneer for the admission of women to matriculation .

Life

Entrance of the Fraunhofer Straße dormitory, which still serves the purpose originally intended by Otilie von Hansemann and is rented exclusively to female students and young families in which both parents study

She offered the rector of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin a foundation of 200,000 Reichsmarks for female students after women were admitted to study in Prussia in 1908, but there was still the possibility that lecturers would exclude them from lectures. When Education Minister Ludwig Holle was unwilling to revise this exceptional paragraph, she withdrew her foundation to the university and invested the money in the construction of the Viktoria study house on what was then Berliner Allee (since 1957 Otto-Suhr-Allee ) in Berlin- Charlottenburg . The student dormitory, now a listed building, was later given the name of its founder, Ottilie von Hansemann-Haus . After several conversions, it has been used as a residential building again since the beginning of 2016. A house of the Studierendenwerk will continue to exist, which bears the name "Otilie von Hansemann House" with the provisions that the apartments there are rented to female students and young families with both parents studying. The student union building is located behind the former Ottilie von Hansemann house.

Ottilie von Hansemann and her husband, the director of the Disconto-Gesellschaft , received numerous prominent guests, including Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Auguste Viktoria, at the Hansemann estate at Schloss Dwasieden on the island of Rügen . But she also invited women's rights activists into the castle: “ Anyone who had the opportunity to get to know life in the Dwasieden Castle could often meet representatives of the women's movement there, who at the time had strong support from Frau von Hansemann during their struggles and first successes; who openly advocated the women's world for equality and was able to help significantly with the weight of her name and her influence and also left nothing to be lacking in financial help. "

Before her death, Ottilie von Hansemann earmarked one million Reichsmarks for the Viktoria Studienhaus . Her marriage to her husband had two children.

literature

  • Ralf Lindemann: The white castle by the sea. Dwasieden Castle in Sassnitz on the island of Ruegen . 2nd edition, Bergen on Rügen 2007.
  • Petra Wilhelmy: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century (1780-1914) (= publications of the Berlin Historical Commission in Berlin, Volume 73). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011891-2 , p. 290 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architectural monument Haus Ottilie von Hansemann; Otto-Suhr-Allee 18-20
  2. ^ Studierendenwerk: Fraunhofer Strasse dormitory. Studierendenwerk, accessed on December 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Lindemann, p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Hansemann, Ottilie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kusserow, Ottilie von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist and wife of the entrepreneur Adolph von Hansemann
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1919
Place of death Berlin