Association of German Women's Education and Employment Associations
The Association of German Women's Education and Employment Associations was founded in 1869 as a result of the women's association conference convened by Franz von Holtzendorff in Berlin and saw itself as the umbrella organization for women's education and employment associations in German-speaking countries. His goal was to summarize the efforts to improve educational work and the economic situation of women, to articulate them within the women's movement, to eliminate prejudices against it and to achieve legal regulations. The association acted through high-profile events and discussions. The publication organ of the Association of Women's Lawyers was published in Berlin from 1870 by Jenny Hirsch . The association meetings took place in one of the member associations' locations. Guests and associations that were not members could also take part. The umbrella organization ensured a constant exchange of experiences among the clubs and with all those interested in the progress of women's education and employment. The first association meeting took place in Darmstadt in 1872 under the patronage of Grand Duchess Alice, organized by Luise Büchner . Prominent guests were Mary Carpenter and Emilie Wüstenfeld . Under the long-time chairwoman Anna Schepeler-Lette and through the mediation of Luise Büchner, an agreement was concluded in 1876 with the General German Women's Association (ADF) to send mutual delegates to the meetings.
The association submitted petitions to the Reichstag for the admission of women to the telegraph service, to the pharmacy service, to the establishment of higher schools for women and, together with the ADF, to improve the legal position of women.
The umbrella organization included associations sponsored by liberal rulers and bourgeois philanthropists, whose members included socially committed women and men. The following were represented in the association: Lette-Verein Berlin (represented by Anna Schepeler-Lette , Jenny Hirsch , Franz von Holtzendorff , Ulrike Henschke , among others ), Association for Family and Folk Education Berlin, Women's Association for the Promotion of Froebel Schools in Berlin, Association of German Teachers Berlin (represented by Bertha Jacobi , Marie Simon , among others ), Arbeiterinnen-Verein Berlin, Volkskücheverein Berlin (represented by Lina Morgenstern ), Housewives Association Berlin (represented by Lina Morgenstern, Marie Gubitz , among others ), Braunschweig women's association (represented by Julie Brasch , among others ) , Frauenerwerb-Verein Bremen (represented inter alia by Mathilde Lammers ), Frauenbildungsverein Breslau , Alice association for women's education and acquisition Darmstadt (represented inter alia by Luise Büchner), Alice women association Darmstadt (represented inter alia by Minna Strecker ), Alice women association Mainz , women acquisition association Hamburg , Association for the Promotion of Female Employment Hamburg (represented a. a. by Marie Meyer), Fröbel-Verein Hamburg (represented by Johanna Goldschmidt , Ottilie Meyer , among others ), Hamburg-Altona teachers' association (represented by Elise Mirus , Ida Meyer , among others ), Badischer Frauenverein Karlsruhe, Frauenverein Rostock , board of trustees of the commercial and industrial school Stettin , women's association to support poor and orphan care (represented by: Elise Voss , Pauline Kortmann ).
The tried and tested structure of an umbrella organization was found in the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine in 1894 .
literature
- The women's advocate: organ d. Association of German Women's Education and Employment Associations. - Berlin: Staude 1870/71 - 1878
- German Women's Advocate: Organ of the Association of German Women's Education and Employment Associations. - Berlin: Lette-Verein proven 1878 - 1881
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schraut: Women and the bourgeois women's movement after 1848, 2019
- ^ Anna Schepeler-Lette: Report on the Association of German Women's Education and Employment Associations and the Lette Association. - in: Deutscher Frauen-Anwalt, 1879, p. 340
- ^ Richter / Wolf: Women's suffrage. - Hamburg: HIS, 2018, p. 47