The German Association of Female Citizens ( German : Deutscher Staatsbürgerinnen-Verband ) is the oldest German women's rights organisation, founded on 18 October 1865.
8-513: The association was created by Louise Otto-Peters and Auguste Schmidt in Leipzig on 18 October 1865. The first SPD chairman August Bebel was also present when the association was founded. It was originally named the General German Women's Association ( German : Allgemeiner Deutscher Frauenverein ). One example of their early work was when Maria von Linden was refused full entry as
16-436: A living. She additionally worked as a journalist from 1843 "with articles about her concept of femininity, as well as women and politics". Otto-Peters became friends with Robert Blum and other democrats, and this connection permitted her to contribute to their newspapers, specifically, Der Wandelstern [The Wandering Star] and Sächsische Vaterlandsblätter [Saxon Fatherland Pages]. By the autumn of 1843 Otto-Peters had become
24-515: A regular staff member for these two publications, occasionally writing under the pseudonym of Otto Stern. After the democratic revolution of 1848, Otto-Peters founded Frauen-Zeitung , the first political women's newspaper in Germany. Her newspaper brought forth a new law to be implemented which explicitly forbade women to be editors of newspapers in Saxony. Her newspaper moved from Leipzig to Gera (beyond
32-498: A student to University of Tübingen . She was allowed by a vote of 8 to 10 to be allowed as a guest student. Her studies were financed and supported by this association. Linden would become one of Germany's first female professors. The association adopted its current name in 1918. The German Association of Female Citizens is affiliated with the International Alliance of Women . This article related to women's history
40-459: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Louise Otto-Peters Louise Otto-Peters (26 March 1819, Meissen – 13 March 1895, Leipzig ) was a German suffragist and women's rights movement activist who wrote novels, poetry, essays, and libretti. She wrote for Der Wandelstern [The Wandering Star] and Sächsische Vaterlandsblätter [Saxon Fatherland Pages], and founded Frauen-Zeitung and Neue Bahnen specifically for women. She
48-598: Is best known as the founder in 1865 of the General German Women's Association ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Frauenverein ). Louise Otto was born in Meissen , the daughter of Charlotte and Wilhelm Otto, a successful lawyer. She was educated by private tutors. In 1835, when she was 16, both her parents and an older sister died. Otto-Peters thereafter lived with her two older sisters. At this point, she began writing novels, short stories, poetry, and political articles to make
56-823: The Allgemeiner Deutscher Frauenverein [General German Women's Association] and participated in the first women's conference in Leipzig. She was the primary editor of Neue Bahnen until her death in 1895. She is buried in the Neuen Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig. She was called by peers the "songbird of the German women's movement". Her first socio-political novel was Ludwig the Waiter (1843), followed by Castle and Factory (1846–1847), initially confiscated but brought attention to her works. Otto-Peters called on
64-466: The borders of Saxony ) and under this condition was able to continue publishing until 1853. Louise Otto became engaged to August Peters in 1849, but he was soon thereafter imprisoned for his rebellious stance against the government. They eventually married in 1858, but in 1864 August Peters died from heart disease. Louise founded the women's journal Neue Bahnen in 1855. In 1865, Louise Otto-Peters, Minna Cauer , and other women suffragists founded
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