Wilhelmine Kähler

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Wilhelmine Kähler
The female MPs of the MSPD in the Weimar National Assembly on June 1, 1919. Wilhelmine Kähler is in the front row, 4th from the right.

Wilhelmine Kähler , b. Mohs (born April 3, 1864 in Kellinghusen , † February 22, 1941 in Bonn ) was a German trade unionist and politician of the SPD .

Life and work

After graduating from elementary school in Kellinghusen in 1878, Kähler, who originally belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church, but later left it, completed an apprenticeship as a seamstress . After initially working as a housekeeper for Detlev von Liliencron , Kähler later earned her living as a political writer. After her marriage to a cigar worker, she moved to Ottensen in 1882 and a few years later to Wandsbek . In 1900 she moved to Dresden , where her husband went into business for himself as a cigar manufacturer. After the death of her husband in 1905, she moved to Düsseldorf and followed in 1910Berlin . From October 1919 she was a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Economics, responsible for the emergency welfare of miners. After their marriage to Wilhelm Reimes , an employee of the SPD parliamentary group, the couple moved in 1924 to Kähler's birthplace, Kellinghusen. From 1927 to 1932 she was in charge of the local workers' welfare home . After her retirement, she went to Bonn with her husband in 1932.

Union work

Wilhelmine Kähler founded the factory and manual workers' association in 1890 , of which she was also chairwoman. In 1892 she transferred the association to the association of factory, agricultural and unskilled workers . She was a member of the general commission of the trade unions, as successor to Emma Ihrers , from 1892 to 1899. She fought primarily for all unions to open up to women, which was often not the case before. She was the editor of the correspondence for our women . When Ida Baar resigned as chairman of the Association of Domestic Workers in Germany in July 1913 , Kähler was her successor for a short time. But already in October she switched to the post of (full-time) deputy chairwoman, who was also associated with the office of editor of the association organ. When the financially troubled domestic workers' association joined the German Transport Association in 1923 , Kähler withdrew from union work.

Political party

Kähler joined the SPD in the late 1880s. She was the "female confidant" for the 8th and 10th Schleswig-Holstein Reichstag constituencies and from November 1900 to 1902 for the three Dresden constituencies. She was also the author of the SPD women's magazine Die Equality . In 1907 she took part in the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart . In 1916, Kähler became the editor of the Social Democratic Article Correspondence .

MPs

Kähler was a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919/20. Afterwards she was a member of the Reichstag until the election of the East Prussian MPs in February 1921 . At the same time as she left the Reichstag, she became a member of the state parliament in Prussia .

At the session of the National Assembly on July 17, 1919, she spoke out in favor of centralizing child welfare in the Reich. Private and denominational child care facilities should be abolished.

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Kähler, Wilhelmine" on library.fes.de, accessed on December 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Kähler, Wilhelmine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohs, Wilhelmine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Kellinghusen
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1941
Place of death Bonn