Tony Breitscheid

Tony Breitscheid , b. Drevermann (born April 19, 1878 ; died August 1968 ) was a German suffragette and politician .

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Tony Breitscheid was the daughter of the manufacturer Ernst Bernhard and his wife Emilie Drevermann and the younger sister of the paleontologist Fritz Ernst Drevermann . In 1908 she married the liberal politician Rudolf Breitscheid , a founding member of the left-liberal Democratic Association . In the same year Tony Breitscheid began her commitment to the women's movement, where she worked closely with Minna Cauer until 1912 . Breitscheid and Cauer headed the Prussian State Association for Women's Suffrage, where they represented a radical democratic position in the German women's suffrage movement . This meant that they advocated equal, direct and secret suffrage for men and women. When the conservative direction gained the upper hand in the direction dispute in the German Association for Women 's Suffrage in 1912 , Breitscheid resigned in protest like many radical women's rights activists.

In 1912 Tony and Rudolf Breitscheid became members of the Social Democratic Party . Tony Breitscheid was involved in the social democratic women's movement. During the war, the couple joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). Tony Breitscheid wrote regularly for Der Sozialist , a weekly theory magazine of the USPD published from 1918 to 1922 under the editor-in-chief of her husband, which emerged from the journal Sozialistische Fremdsppolitik ( Socialist Foreign Policy) , which was also published by her husband between 1916 and 1918 , a pacifist organ of anti-civil peace policy in the SPD, then from 1917 the USPD.

During the Weimar Republic, the couple was active in the SPD and the pacifist movement. After taking power, the couple went into exile in France. At the end of 1941, both were extradited to the Nazis by the French police. In 1942 she was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and from there to the Buchenwald concentration camp in September 1943 . She survived the concentration camp. After the air raid on August 24, 1944, she was rescued from the ruins of the barracks in which she was a. had lived with her husband and Princess Mafalda von Hessen , who both perished.

After the end of the Second World War, Tony Breitscheid moved to her son in Copenhagen .

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The necessity of the demand for the general, equal, direct, secret suffrage , in writings of the Prussian State Association for Women's Suffrage , Vol. 4). Berlin, 1909

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Individual evidence

^ Sabine Theadora Ruh: Dr. Fritz Ernst Drevermann, Professor of Geology and successful museum scientist The development from geologist to museum scientist Museological work. Dissertation, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main 2002 ( PDF ), footnote 8, chapter 3, p. 21
↑ Tony Breitscheid. In: Geni. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Anne-Laure Briatte: Guarded Citizens. The "radical" women's movement in the German Empire . Campus, Frankfurt 2020, ISBN 978-3-593-50827-6 , p. 457-458 .
↑ Rotes Antiquariat. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
↑ transcript of testimony to live together with Mafalda of Hesse. (pdf). Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin
↑ Contemporary history in Hessen - data · facts · background: Extended search: LAGIS Hessen. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
↑ 75 years ago - death of a staunch advocate of the rule of law. Retrieved on August 14, 2020 (German).
^ Siegfried Heimann : Tony Breitscheid. About Tony Breitscheid's fate after the end of the war and how Rudolf Breitscheid's grave was dealt with . In: Our story . Information from the SPD Berlin from November 1999, requested on August 16, 2020.
↑ Tony Breitscheid: The necessity of the demand for the general, equal, direct, secret right to vote (= writings of the Prussian state association for women's right to vote ). 1st edition. Otto Rinka, Berlin 1909 ( deutschestextarchiv.de [accessed on August 14, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Breitscheid, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Drevermann, Tony (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German women's rights activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1878
DATE OF DEATH	August 1968

[1] Sabine Theadora Ruh: Dr. Fritz Ernst Drevermann, Professor of Geology and successful museum scientist The development from geologist to museum scientist Museological work. Dissertation, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main 2002 ( PDF ), footnote 8, chapter 3, p. 21

[2] Tony Breitscheid. In: Geni. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .

[:0-3] Anne-Laure Briatte: Guarded Citizens. The "radical" women's movement in the German Empire . Campus, Frankfurt 2020, ISBN 978-3-593-50827-6 , p. 457-458 .

[4] Rotes Antiquariat. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .

[5] transcript of testimony to live together with Mafalda of Hesse. (pdf). Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin

[6] Contemporary history in Hessen - data · facts · background: Extended search: LAGIS Hessen. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .

[7] 75 years ago - death of a staunch advocate of the rule of law. Retrieved on August 14, 2020 (German).

[8] Siegfried Heimann : Tony Breitscheid. About Tony Breitscheid's fate after the end of the war and how Rudolf Breitscheid's grave was dealt with . In: Our story . Information from the SPD Berlin from November 1999, requested on August 16, 2020.

[9] Tony Breitscheid: The necessity of the demand for the general, equal, direct, secret right to vote (= writings of the Prussian state association for women's right to vote ). 1st edition. Otto Rinka, Berlin 1909 ( deutschestextarchiv.de [accessed on August 14, 2020]).