Sofie Reis

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sofie Reis (born December 3, 1867 - † May 26, 1930 in Stuttgart ) was a German teacher and women's rights activist. She was very active in the Württemberg bourgeois women's movement.

Life and social engagement

Sopfie Reis was the daughter of the lawyer Richard Reis and the younger sister of the equally committed Helene Reis (October 7, 1865 to June 28, 1938), to whom she was very close.

Reis was involved in many different ways in Stuttgart. She was the founder of the official career counseling, secretary of the Stuttgart women's club and led an initially privately founded legal protection office for women. In 1903 she wrote in a summary of the aims and purposes of the women's education / women's studies association :

“The purpose of the association is to encourage women to become more independent, both internally and externally, by raising general education and opening up scientific studies and professions. The means to achieve this purpose are:

  1. influencing the improvement of the entire girls' school system.
  2. the establishment and support of educational establishments which ensure that female youth have the same qualifications for universities as male youth.
  3. a general agitation for the opening up of educational institutions of all kinds and scientific professions for women.
  4. the raising of funds. "

Ries wrote articles for the journal Frauenberuf.Blätter , which was published by the Swabian Women's Association from 1897 . Your name has been given in the yearbooks of the Federation of German Women's Associations for many years as a contact person in the field of women's education in Stuttgart. She was a speaker at the Volkshochschule Stuttgart after a women's department was established in 1919. Furthermore, an obituary reports that she volunteered as a caretaker for a hospital library and with the food supply during the First World War .

Reis was a follower of the religious poet Karl Geroks , who died in 1890 , but did not belong to any religious community. She was a campaigner of Mathilde Planck , who gave a moving funeral speech in front of many companions at the urn burial in the Prague cemetery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Maja Riepl-Schmidt : Vera Vollmer, Sofie Reis, Helene Reis. Women's education and studies . Ed .: Maja Riepl-Schmidt. Silberburg, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-925344-64-0 , p. 183-197 .
  2. ↑ Maja Riepl-Schmidt : Vera Vollmer, Sofie Reis, Helene Reis. Women's education and studies . Ed .: Maja Riepl-Schmidt. Silberburg, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-925344-64-0 , p. 194 (Quoted from the magazine Frauenberuf No. 20, May 16, 1903, page 1).
  3. ↑ a b Maja Riepl-Schmidt : Vera Vollmer, Sofie Reis, Helene Reis. Women's education and studies . Ed .: Maja Riepl-Schmidt. Silberburg, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-925344-64-0 , p. 194 (obituary signed with Th. S. in facsimile print).
personal data
SURNAME Reis, Sofie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1867
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1930
Place of death Stuttgart