Syndicalist women's association

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The Syndicalist Women's Association (SFB) was a women's initiative that emerged in 1921 within the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD) and in 1925 had up to 1,000 members in various regional associations. The women's association took positions that were taken up again by the women's movement after 1968.

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Until 1908, women were not allowed to participate in political meetings or to get involved in political organizations. In contrast to the traditional trade unions, where organized women and men were in wage labor, the FAUD had the character of a concern for society as a whole and fought for general women's rights . Accordingly, the women's association was also interested and active in helping housewives ; they should be treated as equals alongside wage workers . The publication Der Frauenbund appeared once a month as a supplement in the magazine Der Syndikalist . After women had been given the right to vote , around 80% of women took part in the first Reichstag election in 1918. In October 1921 the regional associations of the women's association met for the first Reich Congress of Syndicalist Women in Düsseldorf. Numerous local groups from Berlin, Mülheim, Schweinfurt, Duisburg and other cities were represented. The number of local groups involved would probably have been greater, but not all of them could take part due to cost reasons. At the 13th FAUD congress in Düsseldorf, the women's association brought out a resolution calling for “ to set up syndicalist women's associations in all places and to ensure that the wives and daughters of all syndicalists become members of this women's organization ”.

In contrast to the 2nd International Socialist Women's Conference on August 27, 1910 in Copenhagen ( Women's Campaign Day ) - where agitation for women's suffrage was seen as the most important issue - the syndicalist women's association advocated upbringing, personal hygiene, nutrition, housing, family and education. The SFB pointed out that the organized women could make a not insignificant contribution to the strike and boycott movement. The Federation of Syndicalist Women's Associations published an appeal in 1922 which read, among other things: “ We women and girls are far more than half of humanity. And yet we are being exploited twice . "

“ The failure of the syndicalist women's associations was attributed to the fact that, on the one hand, the given organizational structures of FAUD did not meet the needs of housewives for informal associations and, on the other hand, that the women were permanently deterred by the confrontation with the contradicting behavior of men. "

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  1. ↑ About the syndicalist women's associations
  2. ↑ Brief information on the publication Der Frauenbund in the database of German-speaking anarchism
  3. ↑ Author: Hartmut Rübner. In the database of German-speaking anarchism . Information about FAUD and the Frauenbund.
  4. ^ "To all housewives, mothers and daughters of the proletariat" Published in the magazine Der Syndikalist , No. 1 - 1922, 4th year
  5. ↑ Posted by Christine Weghoff, in: The woman policy of Free Workers Union of Germany 1921-1932 ; P. 95. Göttingen 1984