Raisin memory

Raisin memory (born March 4, 1884 in Wolframs-Eschenbach , † February 2, 1967 in Erlangen ) was a German women's rights activist and editor. In particular, she advocated the upgrading of the work of housewives .

Life

She was the daughter of master locksmith Josef Hafner and his wife Elisabeth, née Göttler. On December 10, 1904, she married the railway chief secretary Philipp Speicher.

Speicher began her political career in 1919 in the Rhine Palatinate with - albeit unsuccessful - candidacies for the Bavarian state parliament and the Reichstag . In 1920 she took over a mandate in the city council of Ludwigshafen . The following year, however, she moved to Nuremberg , where she started the Nuremberg housewife newspaper. In 1924 she took over the chairmanship of the Nuremberg Housewives Association and was at times also a board member of the German Housewives Association . During the Third Reich she was arrested a total of seven times for making critical statements, and she temporarily moved to Vienna , but went back to Nuremberg in 1945.

After the end of the Second World War, she was editor of the magazine Frauenwelt from 1945 to 1957 . In addition to everyday advice for women, her publications also included idealistic contributions on custom and ethics. She was removed from the DHB board in 1955 after she had pointed out the link between association and business interests at DHB President Fini Pfannes , who resigned for this reason in 1956. On site in Nuremberg, Speicher remained head of the DHB until 1962, when she resigned for reasons of age. An autobiography that she was preparing under the title “Woman without a Veil” was not completed before her death.

Honors

• 2006: Designation of a new road in the Katzwang district of Nuremberg

literature

• Hellmut Patzke: In: Frauengestalten in Franken , ed. Inge Meidinger-Geise. Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1985. pp. 214-218. ISBN 3-8035-1242-5 .