Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot

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Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot

Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot , real name: Willemien Hendrika van der Goot ; Nickname: "Lil", "Willy" (* May 2, 1897 in Pretoria , South Africa; † January 16, 1989 in Amsterdam ), was a Dutch publicist, author , feminist , editor and the first woman in the Netherlands to obtain a doctorate PhD in economics .

Life

Van der Goot was the daughter of the engineer Fiepko van der Goot and the housewife Elisabeth Marijna Castens. Grew up in Batavia ( Dutch East Indies ), today Jakarta , she attended the Hogere Burger School (HBS) and, probably between 1914 and 1919, went to a boarding school in Switzerland . From 1919 she studied in Rotterdam at the Nederlandsche Handels Hoogschool and on December 11, 1930 doctorate it with a dissertation on economics.

She focused more on facts and statistics, less on theories. “It is important to use energy for grassroots work. Then you ultimately get so much indirect power that politics can no longer get around you ”. From 1913 onwards, Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot supported her husband, Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus , in drawing up statistical documents.

In the 1930s, a law was to be introduced to prohibit paid work for married women. Together with a friend, WP-van der Goot organized a postcard campaign against the draft law. Among other things, the protest action prevented this law from being introduced. Her motivation to become active in the women's movement was her conviction that modern women owed a lot to the earlier feminists and that younger women should take the initiative. Her circle of friends included Rosa Manus , Jane de Jong , Johanna Naber , Aletta Jacobs and Mies Buissevain-van Lennep . During the Second World War , WP-van der Goot and MB-van Lennep helped Jewish children escape persecution by the National Socialists .

Act

In 1930 Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot became a member of the Dutch Association for Women's Affairs and Equal Citizenship ("Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Vrouwenbelangen en Staatsburgerschaft", VVGS). In the 1930s she became active in the women's movement and organized a conference with other women on the question of how Dutch women saw their position in society. The conference took place in Bilthoven in January 1935 and led to the establishment of the Jongeren Werk Comite (JWC). WP-van der Goot later became the first female president of the JWC. In December 1935, together with Rosa Manus and Johanna Naber, she founded the International Archives for the Women's Movement (IAV), which later became known as the Internationaal Instituut en Archief voor de Vrouwenbewegung (IIAV) and since 2009 Aletta, Institute for Women's History is called. Between 1935 and 1936 she was editor of De Groene Amsterdammer magazine . In addition to her numerous publications, she was in charge of various radio programs at AVRO , including Korte Gesprekken van Vrouw tot Vrouw (“Brief Conversations from Woman to Woman”). As an author and editor, she became mainly through her collaboration on the book about the history of the Dutch women's movement, Van moeder op butter: Het aandeel van de vrouw in een verandende wereld ("From mother to daughter: The proportion of women in a changing world" , 1948).

As the founder and employee of the IAV, W. Posthumus-van der Goot was interrogated by the National Socialists in 1940. The archive material of the IAV was confiscated and brought to Germany.

For WP-van der Goot, women played an important role in keeping the peace. In 1967 she founded a department within the International Peace Research Organization called the International Scientific Institute for Feminine Interpretation (ISIFI). The International Organization of Radio Women was founded by her in 1950 and in 1951 the Adviesbureau van Vrouw tot Vrouw (“Advice center for women for women”). In addition, she was active in the organization Nederlandsche Vereniging van Huisvrouwen ("Dutch Association of Housewives"), the Vereniging voor Vrouwen met Akademische Opleiding ("Association for women with academic training"), the Bond van Vrouwen werkzaam in Bedrijf en Beroep and the Nederlands Vrouwen Initiatief Comite Wereldjaar Internationale Samenwerking (for example: "Dutch Women's Initiative and Committee for the World Year of International Cooperation").

Appreciations

Publications (selection)

  • De besteding van het inkomen. The indexcijfer van de Kosten van levensonderhoud (1930)
  • Statistical against relevant de vrouw in Nederland (1937)
  • Onderzoek naar the work of the Gehuwde vrouw in Nederland (1938)
  • Vrouwen vochen voor de vrede (1961)
  • Vrede met een menselijk gezicht (1973)
  • A letter voor U (Around 1950 to 1964)
  • Van moeder op Dochter: Het aandeel van de vrouw in een verandende wereld (collaboration and editor).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author: Francisca de Haan, Annette Mevis . Portret: "Willemien Hendrika van der Goot". In: Biographical Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbewegung in Nederland (BWSA). First published in BWSA 8, 2001. Unless otherwise stated, information in this article is taken from this biography. Dutch, accessed January 5, 2012
  2. ↑ Author: Mattanja Schwencke. Biography Willemijn Posthumus-Van der Goot . In the IIAV. Quote: "In 1930 Willemijn van der Goot promoveerde as first vrouw in Nederland tot doctor in de economie" . Dutch, accessed January 5, 2012
  3. ↑ See on this: Agnes Verbiest: Het gewicht van de directie: taal over, tegen, door vrouwen . Page 9, 49. Quotation: “Willemijn Posthumus- van der Goot, Nederlands feministe van het eerste uur, gepromoveerd econoom, editor van het feminist standaardwerk Van moeder op butter” .
  4. ↑ Author: Mattanja Schwencke . Biography Willemijn Posthumus-Van der Goot. In the IIAV. Quote: “Het is goed om energy te besteden aan het werken aan de basis. Dan krijg je uiteindelijk zoveel indirecte does, dat de politiek niet meer om je heen kan ” .
  5. ^ Author: Peter-Paul de Baar. Een moved huwelijk . In: Ons Amsterdam, No. 10, October 2010
  6. ↑ oprichter krijgt postuum onderscheiding hoogste Israeli . Dutch, accessed January 5, 2012
  7. ^ Author: Peter-Paul de Baar . In: “Ons Amsterdam”, No. 10, October 2010. Section: “Onderduikkind in huis”. Quote: "Voor hun verzetswerk kregen het real pair Posthumus en Annie Diaz in 2008 postuum de Yad Vashem-onderscheiding" .
  8. ↑ Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
personal data
SURNAME Posthumus van der Goot, Willemijn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES van der Goot, Willemien Hendrika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch feminist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1989
Place of death Amsterdam