Central office for the municipal offices of women

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The information center for municipal offices used questionnaires to collect data from the ADF's wife on the social, political and legal situation in order to statistically substantiate claims (here 1908)

The central office for the municipal offices of women (founded in 1905), formerly also the information point for the municipal offices of women , was an institution founded by the General German Women's Association (ADF) that provided information on the rights of women. The central office was located in Frankfurt am Main .

founding

The central office for the municipal offices of women was planned by the General German Women's Association as a documentation center as well as a propaganda center, as a consequence of the moderate women's movement to expand political participation for women at the municipal level on the way to citizenship rights.

Mission and work

The main task of the central office was the research and documentation of materials on the position of women in the community, beyond the borders of the empire. Secondly, she was responsible for answering related questions. It was about collecting facts about existing rights, taking stock of the different municipal constitutions in all German federal states, in order to support local political demands with arguments, but also to be able to educate women about unused rights and opportunities.

The information center was located in Jenny Apolant's apartment in Frankfurt am Main for the first six years before moving to an office at Hochstrasse 49 in the same town in 1913. The first permanent employee was Margarete Bernhard from May 1913 . The central office included Apolant, Bernhard, Rosa Kempf and Rose von Mangoldt (former housing inspector in Halle), Johanna Tesch from the Social Democrats and Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag .

The number of inquiries rose from 89 in 1908/1909 to 124 in 1912/1913.

successes

In 1907 Anna Dinger and Julie Roger became full members of the Orphan and Poor Office.

Successes were also the election of Marie Oswalt , Minnie Rößler and Marie Hahn-Opificius in 1912/1913 by the Frankfurt magistrate to the Board of Trustees for Higher Schools, the Institution Deputation and the Health Deputation.

Before the First World War , a total of 24 women were represented in municipal offices in Frankfurt, deputations and commissions, some of them advisory, some with voting rights.

literature

  • Irene Stoehr: Emancipation to the State? The General German Women's Association - German Citizens' Association (1893–1933). Pfaffenweiler 1990
  • Dieter Langewiesche : Liberalism in Germany. Frankfurt a. M. 1988
  • Siegbert Wolf : Liberalism in Frankfurt am Main. From the end of the Free Imperial City to the First World War (1866–1914). Frankfurt a. M. (Studies on Frankfurt History, 23) 1987
  • Neue Bahnen, organ of the General German Women's Association 1866–1919
  • The women's movement . Revue for the interests of women. Organ for the Political Life of Women 1895–1919

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Klausmann: Politics and culture of the women's movement in the empire . In: Gisela Bock, Karin Hausen and Heide Wunder (ed.): History and gender . tape 19 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, ISBN 3-593-35758-5 , pp. 271 .
  2. ↑ Christina Klausmann: Politics and culture of the women's movement in the empire . In: Gisela Bock, Karin Hausen and Heide Wunder (ed.): History and gender . tape 19 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, ISBN 3-593-35758-5 , pp. 272, 273 .
  3. ↑ Christina Klausmann: Politics and culture of the women's movement in the empire . In: Gisela Bock, Karin Hausen and Heide Wunder (ed.): History and gender . tape 19 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, ISBN 3-593-35758-5 , pp. 274 .
  4. ↑ Christina Klausmann: Politics and culture of the women's movement in the empire . In: Gisela Bock, Karin Hausen and Heide Wunder (ed.): History and gender . tape 19 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, ISBN 3-593-35758-5 , pp. 285 .
  5. ↑ Christina Klausmann: Politics and culture of the women's movement in the empire . In: Gisela Bock, Karin Hausen and Heide Wunder (ed.): History and gender . tape 19 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, ISBN 3-593-35758-5 , pp. 288 .
  6. ↑ Christina Klausmann: Politics and culture of the women's movement in the empire . In: Gisela Bock, Karin Hausen and Heide Wunder (ed.): History and gender . tape 19 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, ISBN 3-593-35758-5 , pp. 286 .