Helene Lange und Gertrud Bäumer

Schaser, Angelika

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“…Bäumer held a seat in the German Reichstag from 1920 to 1930 and served as a deputy chair of the GDP. She also worked within the cultural policy department of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, focused on schools and youth (Schaser, 2010). Both Bäumer and Lange wrote extensively about and championed women’s educational opportunities throughout the late 19th century.…”

Section: Part Ii: Wunderlich In Political Life—the German Democratic ...mentioning

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Frieda Wunderlich: Feminist research and activism in Berlin

Golesorkhi,

Freeberg,

Luria Walker

2023

Journal of Classical Sociology

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In this article, we map the idiosyncratic social research career of Frieda Wunderlich during her years in Berlin (1884–1963). We recover elements of Wunderlich’s unique deployment of social data and her analyses that are emblematic of contributions she made and that have been previously overlooked. We highlight Wunderlich as she lived and worked alongside other women in Berlin who shaped discourse and practice on social protections during a unique moment in the Weimar era. As a scholar and practitioner, Wunderlich helped transform the significance of the relationship between economy and society by insisting on the primacy of humane labor conditions. Our research explores two elements of Wunderlich’s contributions in this context: (1) her efforts to integrate academic social research into public policy and (2) her participation in active, feminist spaces for new policy practices, politics and education. To analyze Wunderlich’s career in Berlin, we refer to three interrelated arenas where she made significant contributions: the German Association of Female Civil Servants of Welfare (1919–1933), the German Democratic Party (1925–1933), the German Academy for Women’s Social and Educational Work (1925–1933). In our exploration of Wunderlich’s scholarship and policy practice within these arenas, we situate her contributions alongside other women including Dorothea Hirschfeld, Hedwig Wachenheim, Cora Berliner, Gertrud Bäumer, Helene Lange, Marianne Weber, Hanna Meuter, Alice Salomon, and Hilde Lion. Recovering and bringing into conversation several figures, we find that theory and praxis concurrently informed Wunderlich’s career, as it did for many of the women around her.

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Section: Part Ii: Wunderlich In Political Life—the German Democratic ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Frieda Wunderlich: Feminist research and activism in Berlin

Golesorkhi,

Freeberg,

Luria Walker

2023

Journal of Classical Sociology

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“…But at the same time, it was mostly middle-class women who volunteered, while working-class women were seen as the needy recipients of the former's voluntary work. 46 The NFD received government support and collaborated with national or local authorities, such as price inspection authorities, where it acted as an extension of state policies. In general, its work was strengthened and revalued with the Hindenburg Programme of 1916.…”

Section: Between Mobilisation and Self-mobilisation: Women And The Samentioning

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Towards ‘Total’ Recycling: Women, Waste and Food Waste Recovery in Germany, 1914–1939

Weber

2013

Contemporary European History

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In two critical periods of German history, namely during wartime Imperial Germany and the National Socialist era, the German state resorted to salvaging waste to mobilise both people and resources at home for the war effort. Waste recycling efforts were part of preparing the national economy as well as home front morale for 'total' war. Since domestic waste -the generation of which was largely an urban phenomenon before the advent of mass consumer society -has traditionally been defined as a female responsibility, urban women were seen as the main pillars of waste work. Collecting, separating and storing reusable leftovers became a pervasive element of their everyday lives, as well as those of schoolchildren. Moreover, in the case of the First World War, under the umbrella of the so-called National Women's Service (Nationaler Frauendienst or NFD), women's associations set up grass-roots local waste collections before the state discovered the potential of waste for its war mobilisation efforts from 1916 onwards. The article highlights this self-mobilisation in the case of food recycling. Furthermore, it explores the continuities and differences between First World War waste salvage and later Nazi waste policies. Claiming to have learnt their lessons from the salvage drives of the First World War, the Nazis aimed at a 'total' waste recovery at the latest from 1936 onwards and took a top-down approach to reach it; in contrast, waste salvage drives of the First World War had been dominated by local and often female initiatives.

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“…20 Historians have shared these doubts: writing in 1976, Richard Evans was highly critical of her position even before 1933, seeing in her national-mindedness the seeds of a darker nationalism. 21 More recent scholarship, such as that by Eric Kurlander and Anglika Schaser, takes a more nuanced approach, Schaser characterising Bäumer's post-1933 activities as incorporating elements of both courageous opposition and accommodation 22 and Kurlander noting that the post-1933 articles in Die Frau did not in fact shy away from 'pointed criticism or trenchant analysis' of National Socialist policies concerning women. 23 It is beyond the scope of this article to consider questions of Bäumer's complicity with National Socialism or to offer a detailed assessment of the extent to which Bäumer moved away from her position on international co-operation after the early 1930s.…”

Section: Wartime Internationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘An Unbroken Family’? Gertrud Bäumer and the German Women's Movement's Return to International Work in the 1920s

Sharp

2016

Women's History Review

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Helene Lange und Gertrud Bäumer

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Frieda Wunderlich: Feminist research and activism in Berlin

Frieda Wunderlich: Feminist research and activism in Berlin

Towards ‘Total’ Recycling: Women, Waste and Food Waste Recovery in Germany, 1914–1939

‘An Unbroken Family’? Gertrud Bäumer and the German Women's Movement's Return to International Work in the 1920s

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