Pauline Staegemann

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Pauline Staegemann, née Pauline Schuck (born March 18, 1838 in Diedersdorf , Lebus district , † September 5, 1909 in Berlin ) was a German feminist , socialist and union pioneer .

Life

Pauline Schuck began her working life as a maid, a job that was not only viewed low in the German Empire, but also had a very bad legal status due to the Prussian servant order . z. B. no right of termination for domestic staff and farm workers. To improve this situation, Pauline Staegemann founded the first social democratic women's organization, the Berlin Workers' Women and Girls' Association, on February 28, 1873, together with the Berlin workers' women Berta Hahn and Johanna Schackow .

At the beginning of 1885 she worked together with the women's rights activist Emma Ihr in the management of the association founded by Gertrude Guillaume-Schack in Berlin to protect the interests of women workers . According to the statutes, only "women and girls" were allowed to belong to this association, men were excluded from its meetings. The aim of the association was to raise wages, mutual support in wage disputes, educational work through scientific lectures and the establishment of a library. There was also the promotion of social contacts between the women through social gatherings and the establishment of an employment agency. The association also ran political campaigns, especially in the textile industry, where the proportion of women among employees was particularly high. When the duty on English sewing thread, which the textile workers who worked at home had to finance themselves, was to be increased, public protests were launched. A petition with thousands of signatures from all over Germany succeeded in preventing the tariff increase. Through a parliamentary complaint, which was emphasized in a clothing workers' strike in 1886, the women finally achieved an amendment to Section 115 of the trade regulations of the German Reich. From then on, the contractor was only allowed to distribute work materials at customary local prices and not at excessive prices.

Staegemann is the mother of the Social Democratic Reichstag member Elfriede Ryneck and the great-grandmother of Jutta Limbach , the first woman to head the Federal Constitutional Court .

See also

literature

  • Jutta Limbach : True hyenas. Pauline Staegemann and her struggle for the political power of women . Dietz, Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-8012-0480-8 .
  • Pauline Staegemann. In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume 1: Deceased Personalities. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hannover 1960, p. 297.
  • Friedrich Kleinhempel: When workers fought for equal wages. Pauline Staegemann (1838–1909) founded the first social democratic women's association. In: New Germany . B edition, 62, 2007, dated January 8, 2007.
  • Gisela Notz : Pauline Staegemann, née Schuck (1838–1909) - pioneer of the socialist women's movement. In: Year Book for Research on the History of the Labor Movement . Vol. 4, No. 3, 2005, pp. 134-145.
  • Gisela Notz: Speech on the 95th anniversary of Pauline Staegemann's death. In: Social Democratic Party of Germany. Working group of social democratic women. State Association Brandenburg: Pauline Staegemann Prize of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women in the SPS Brandenburg. Vol. 1, 2004, ZDB -ID 2365591-4 , pp. 4-9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Limbach, Jutta, 1934-2016: "Wahre Hyänen": Pauline Staegemann and her struggle for the political power of women . Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-8012-0480-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Staegemann, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuck, Pauline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German socialist and union pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Diedersdorf , district of Lebus
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1909
Place of death Berlin