Renate Krauss-Pötz

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Renate Krauß-Pötz (born February 6, 1948 in Grünberg (Hesse) ) is a German designer, trade union official and management consultant.

Career

In the 1950s, Krauss-Pötz was the first girl from her home town to attend grammar school . After graduating from high school , she initially trained as a carpenter in a company in the neighboring village and then studied design in Darmstadt . From 1983 to 1985 she studied at the Academy of Labor at the University of Frankfurt (today: European Academy of Labor ). As a student who was politically active in the context of the 1968 movement , Krauss-Pötz was appointed head of a model project for urban development at the Deutscher Werkbund in Heidelberg after completing her first degree in 1972 and later worked on a project for social housing advice in Mannheim .

In 1980 she returned to the central Hessian region to modernize the design of the series furniture in an interior construction company. The reorientation of the company was not limited to aesthetic issues: Krauss-Pötz set up a unionized works council for the 50-man company and acquired funding from the Federal Ministry of Research to reorganize the company.

After these initial contacts with trade union organizations, the designer changed her mind, moved to Frankfurt in 1983 and studied business administration at the Academy of Labor at the University of Frankfurt. During this time, the demands and theories of the New Women's Movement became a central theme for her: From 1985, Krauss-Pötz worked as a trade union secretary for the ÖTV district of Hessen for women's issues and environmental policy . She campaigned for the upgrading of women's work and was heavily involved in asserting women's interests in more flexible working time models and in the modernization of the public services in Hesse in cooperation with the state government .

Head of the first women's department in Frankfurt

In the function of trade union secretary, Krauss-Pötz was a member of the advisory group around Margarethe Nimsch , the head of the women's department in the Frankfurt magistrate, who was designated by the red-green coalition . After setting up the women's department in September 1989, Krauß-Pötz became the first head of office. Together with the department heads Margarethe Nimsch (1989–1995) and Sylvia Schenk (1996–2001), her field of activity was the structuring and concept development of feminist positions for a professional administrative institution. The newly created model with a women's department and department was linked in the autonomous women's public “with a far-reaching political claim: to have to act across departments in terms of women's policy if drastic shifts in priorities are to be achieved in the existing policy and the everyday conditions of women in Frankfurt are to be structurally improved, giving them value and Importance should be attached ”, said the publicist Dörthe Jung .

The main topics during Krauss-Pötz's 11-year management were flexible working hours, improved working conditions for prostitutes, the development of infrastructure relevant to women in the city, such as women's shelters , women's education and counseling facilities, the appointment of women's representatives, as well as women-friendly housing and neighborhood policy.

Berlin, Benin, Mali and Lumda

In 2000, Krauss-Pötz moved to the Berliner Wasserbetriebe as head of the HR division. From 2003 to 2011 she worked in development cooperation for the German Society for Technical Cooperation (from 2011 Society for International Cooperation ). She was deployed in the West African countries of Benin and Mali in the field of state decentralization, the development of local self-government and business and tourism promotion. Krauß-Pötz has been part of the SES Senior Expert Service since 2013 . There she was in charge of short managements in Algeria and Benin. She gives lectures on the history and the current situation in West Africa and also researches the history of her hometown Lumda (Grünberg) .

Private

Krauss-Pötz has a son.

Publications (selection)

  • Where are the part-time jobs? Renate Krauß-Pötz demands modern working time models in Frankfurter Rundschau , issue of November 25, 1998
  • with Maryam Ghaffari (as publisher): Women in the district - urban development project of the women's department of the city of Frankfurt am Main, concept September 1998; Magistrate of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Department for Law, Sport, Women and Housing / Women's Department
  • Trade Union Work in Post-Socialism - Highlights from a Visit to Public Service Unions in the Czech and Slovak Republics , in: Kommune , No. 10, 1998
  • with Ulla Langer: Labor market policy for women in Frankfurt am Main: analyzes - goals - offers and fields of action . Women's Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main, City of Frankfurt am Main, Department of Law, Sport, Women and Housing
  • as publisher: Burglary in the Polis. Experiences and successes of local women's politics, Frankfurt 1994
  • From the father state to the "city enterprise". The feminization of the political system under new structural conditions. In: Kommune , Issue 7, 1993
  • Renate Krauß-Pötz (editor): Women make politics in the municipality: How do we want to live? How can we win? Documentation of an event organized by the ÖTV trade union in the Hesse district, February 9, 1989 in Giessen / Klein Linden
  • Women's representatives and staff councils should work closely together. In: Women are not second class. Women's policy for equality, Hamburg: VSA Verlag 1986, pp. 181–189, ISBN 3-879753-42-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Frauke Haß: In conversation. No more mouthing, but smart little steps. Frauke Haß with Renate Krauss-Pötz. . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . No. 09/01/1999, local section, September 1999.
  2. ↑ a b Frauke Haß: What does ...? She had had enough of the women's “war” in Frankfurt. Renate Krauß-Pötz switched from the women's department to the water company in Berlin . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . No. 25.08.2001, Frankfurt region / local section, September 1999.
  3. ↑ Mechthild Harting: "The wind blows women in the sails". In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, November 28, 2014, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Karin Jergas: Men plan for men. In: zeit.de. ZEIT ONLINE GmbH, December 22, 1989, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 25 years of women's department. In: frankfurt.de. City of Frankfurt am Main, November 24, 2014, accessed on June 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Dörthe Jung: FrauenStadtGeschichte. For example Frankfurt am Main . Ed .: Hessian State Center for Political Education and WEIBH eV Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein 1995, ISBN 978-3-927164-29-1 , p. 202 .
  7. ↑ Renate Krauß-Pötz: Where are the part-time jobs? Renate Krauß-Pötz demands modern working time models. . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . No. 11/25/1998, Region, November 1998.
  8. ↑ Martina Keller: Every woman has her own master . In: The time . No. 09/1995, September 1995.
  9. ↑ Prostitution as a service industry and economic factor in Frankfurt. Public hearing. Women's Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main, September 27, 1990, accessed on April 16, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Boom for women . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, . No. 11.03.1999, p. 58, March 1999.
  11. ↑ Women's culture for all offices. Magistrate wants a "new upswing in women's politics" . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . No. 09.03.1999, Kultur, p. 19, March 1999.
  12. ↑ Renate Krauss-Pötz. In: ifak-goettingen.de. Institute for Applied Cultural Research eV, accessed on June 27, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Mali - Why war and what happens after the war? In: frankfurt-rhein-main.dgb.de. German Trade Union Confederation, February 7, 2013, accessed June 27, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Irmgard Dechert: Renate Krauss-Poetz speaks about Benin. In: giessener-zeitung.de. GZ Medien GmbH, January 28, 2013, accessed on June 27, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Berlin and Benin - On the trail of German history in the south of Benin. In: urania.de. Urania Berlin eV, accessed on June 27, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Thomas Brückner: Story (s) from "Lomm". In: giessener-allgemeine.de. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagshaus GmbH & Co. KG, January 16, 2018, accessed on June 27, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Ilse Lenz, Anja Szypulski, Beate Molsich: Women's movements internationally: A work bibliography . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-95725-2 ( google.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Krauss-Pötz, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer, trade union official and management consultant
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünberg in Hesse