Auguste Schmidt

Auguste Schmidt ( Friederike Wilhelmine Auguste Schmidt, born August 3, 1833 in Breslau, † June 10, 1902 in Leipzig) was a German teacher and writer, founded in 1865 together with Louise Otto-Peters the General German Women's Association (ADF). She was involved especially for the girls' education and women's rights.

Biography

Auguste Schmidt was the daughter of a Prussian artillery captain, who enabled her and her two sisters, a good professional training.

Auguste visited in Poznan successfully a teacher training college. After her passing a final exam at the age of 17 years she worked as a teacher in Poznan and later at a private school in Upper Silesia. After that she received at the municipal higher Magdalene School in Wroclaw employment as a single scientific teacher. With 28 years increased Auguste Schmidt, who had now completed the school's principal internal exam successfully on as Director of the Latzelschen higher private girls' school in Leipzig. Your lessons liked later the director of the Steyberschen Education Institute ( Leipzig) so well that these hired her as a teacher of literature and aesthetics. Among her pupils belonged to Clara Zetkin, who later made ​​his name as a politician. In its educational work Auguste Schmidt was supported by their widowed sisters with whom she lived.

Beginning in 1864, the journalist and writer Louise Otto-Peters every Friday visited the house of Auguste. 1865 founded Auguste Schmidt, Louise Otto-Peters and Henriette Goldschmidt Leipzig Women's Education Association. The first German Frauenkonverenz in Leipzig in October 1865 Auguste Schmidt raised together with Louise Otto-Peters and Marie Loeper - Housselle ( 1837-1916 ) the General German Women's Association (ADF ) from the baptism. At the inaugural meeting of the ADF Auguste Schmidt gave a speech in which she argued that women's movement had less resistance egotistical men but rather the indifference of women fear who felt happy and satisfied in the state of eternal childhood and subordination. She said that the problem of women lie mainly in the non-recognition of one's own situation. Between 1866 and 1920 she published the magazine of the ADF with the title New railways together with Louise Otto - Peters. The derived therefrom moderate feminist magazine The woman lawyer was later continued by Elsbeth Krukenberg Conze. 1869 Auguste Schmidt participated together with the teacher Marie Calm ( 1831-1887 ) from Kassel to the founding of the Association of German teachers and educators. 1890 she raised in Friedrichroda along with Helene Lange the General German Teachers Association ( ADLV ) with from the baptism. From 1894 to 1899 she served as chairman of the Federal German Women's Associations ( BDF), an umbrella organization of the bourgeois women's movement, whose founders also belonged.

Your involvement in the women's movement was Auguste Schmidt little time to prove her talent for writing. Her literary works include the novels daisies and violets, both published in 1868, and the story from hard times that came out in 1895. In 1895 they recorded solely responsible for the magazine New railways.

At the age of 66 years she retired in 1900 withdrew from public life.