Marie Stritt
Marie Fougere ( born February 18, 1855 in Sighisoara, Transylvania as Marie Bacon, † September 16, 1928 in Dresden) was a German women's rights activist.
Life
Marie Fougere was born on 18 February 1855 as Marie Bacon in Sighisoara. She came to be the oldest of ten siblings - six of whom died in infancy - from a German law family in Transylvania. Her father, Joseph Martin Bacon (1820-1885), was among other things, member of the Reichstag. Stritts brother, Dr. Joseph Bacon (1857-1941), was town physician and founder of the Museum of National History her hometown.
The mother Therese Bacon was already politically engaged woman in a time when a larger women's movement did not even exist. The mother was also the Marie Fougere introduced in Dresden's movement in the early 1890s.
In 1873 left Marie Fougere Sighisoara to be an actress. She attended a theater school in Vienna and received a first engagement in Karlsruhe. Fougere married the opera singer Albert Fougere (1847-1908), with whom she had two children. In 1889, she took leave of the stage and settled in Dresden. There Fougere committed from 1894 onwards more and more into the women's movement - not least inspired by her mother.
Creation
Marie Fougere is considered as pioneer of the German women's movement. And she was prominently: Even 100 years ago graced her portrait photo the first page of the largest mass magazines, the "Berliner Zeitung magazine ." That was in June 1904 - at the start of the International Women's Congress in Berlin, as its President officiated the chairman of the Federal German Women's Associations.
The trained actress had founded in 1894 the first legal club for women in Dresden. In 1896 she was a co-initiator of the campaign to protest women's militia against the draft Civil Code. From 1899 to 1910, she was chairman of the Federal German Women's Associations, but was removed at the behest of the conservative majority by Gertrud Bäumer. The reason was Stritts uncompromising stance against the § 218, presented the abortion punishable.
From 1900 to 1920 Marie Fougere held the editorship of the publication organ of the BDF. This gazette was published until 1913 under the title " Central Sheet", then it was renamed the " woman question." From 1911 to 1919 Fougere was leader of the German Association for Women's Suffrage and 1913 to 1920 she was chairman of the World Federation for Women's Suffrage (English International Woman Suffrage Alliance) holds. In 1920 she was delegate of the Reich Government at the International Congress in Geneva, 1899-1921 font director of the Zentralblatt the Federation of German Women's Associations or the " woman question ", 1919-1922 Councillor and 1920-1922 honorary councilor in Dresden. In 1919 she became a member of the extended federal board of the Federation of German Women's Associations and in 1925 chairman of the Federal City Dresden's associations. After Fougere died in Dresden, she was buried in an urn grave in Sighisoara.
Marie Fougere Foundation
On the occasion of her resignation as chairman of the Federal German Women's Associations Marie Fougere Foundation was launched. Your interest income should Marie Fougere as income are available, but remain the capital owned by the BDF. Because of inflation, the foundation had to be in 1923 but dissolved.
Works
- Domestic boy's upbringing, Berlin 1891
- Woman logic, Dresden 1892
- The woman belongs in the house, Dresden 1893
- The determination of the man, Dresden 1894
- Female. Weaknesses, Dresden 1894