West German women's peace movement

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The West German Women's Peace Movement ( WFFB ) was founded in February 1952 in response to efforts to rearm the Federal Republic of Germany . It emerged from a women's peace congress that took place on October 14, 1951 in Velbert and in which almost a thousand women took part.

Klara Marie Faßbinder was the first chairwoman of this non-partisan and non-denominational women's network . According to Fassbinder, the WFFB should connect “the Christian next to the Marxist, the housewife with the employed, the scientist with the worker”. The women in the WFFB campaigned with petitions, lecture series and congresses for international understanding , for peace , for the non-arming of the Federal Republic and for the reunification of the two German states. The WFFB published the magazine Frau und Frieden . Members of the editorial team were Elly Steinmann and Ingeborg Küster .

1956 traveled six women WFFB with two delegates of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (u a.. Magda Hoppstock-Huth ) and the Democratic Women's League of Germany to Moscow - presumably this was the first independent women's delegation there. In view of the arms race, this wanted to enter into dialogue with the women's organizations of the USSR .

literature

  • Foundation Archive of the German Women's Movement (ed.): Ariadne. »... the women said: No!« Against militarism and war - 100 years of women's peace movement , Issue 66, Kassel 2014.
  • Lottemi Doormann: Emancipation against peacefulness. In: Ruth-Esther Geiger and Anna Johanneson (eds.): Not peaceful and not quiet. Polemic pamphlets from women on violence at war. Munich 1982.
  • Elizabeth Heineman: The Hour of Women. Memories of Germany's “crisis years” and West German national identity. In: Klaus Naumann (Ed.): Post-war in Germany. Hamburg 2001, pp. 149–177.
  • Ingeborg Küster and Elly Steinmann: The West German women's peace movement. In: Florence Hervé (ed.): History of the German women's movement. Cologne 1982, pp. 206-216.
  • Meike Spitzner: The German women's peace movement and the magazine 'Frau und Frieden' in the dispute over the West German rearmament (1950–1955). Cologne 1987.

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