Emma Ihrer
Emma your ( born January 3, 1857 in Glatz as Emma Rother, † January 8, 1911 in Berlin) was a German politician and trade unionist.
Life
Emma came from a Catholic shoemakers your family. After her early marriage to the 22 years older pharmacist your Emmanuel, she moved to Berlin. 1881 founded the socialist and feminist in Berlin the Women's Relief Association for manual workers and also belonged to the Board. 1885 she founded together with Marie Hofmann, Pauline Staegemann and Gertrude Guillaume Schack - the Berlin association for the protection of the interests of the workers. The club saw itself primarily as a support club, their Services Provided free of charge in the doctors and lawyers. The workers club has been disbanded a year later by the police, had at this time but already more than a thousand members.
1887 took over her husband Concordia Pharmacy in Broad Street in Velten. By 1894 they lived in the furnace city. Because of their political activities of her husband, the concession was withdrawn, so they sold the pharmacy. Then they moved to Berlin- Pankow.
1889 took your along with Clara Zetkin as a delegate to the International Socialist Congress in Paris. There, they prevented with Zetkin a motion against women in employment, and reached that women in the trade unions were recognized as equal. The end of 1890 she was elected as the first woman next six men in the general commission of the trade unions in Germany.
Emma continued to fight for your women's rights and was from January 1891, the weekly magazine " The Worker " out in 1892 that "equality ". She founded in the aftermath more feminist associations, who saw themselves as socialist and decided by the emerging women's associations also other political orientation distanced. Through the foundation of clubs came into your constant conflict with the police.
Honors
- After Emma your inter alia, the Emma - your -Straße in Berlin- Rummelsburg ( Lichtenberg district ) and Velten was named.
- At the Concordia Pharmacy in Broad Street in Velten, a memorial plaque was placed on January 7, 2011.
- The German Federal Post Office put a stamp in honor of Emma Ihrers on as part of the Definitive series Women in German history. The brand had cataloged a face value of five penny and is under the number 1405.
Works
- The organizations of the workers of Germany, its origin and development. Berlin 1893.