Mathilde Weber
Mathilde Weber, born Walz ( born August 16, 1829 in Tübingen, † June 22, 1901 ibid ) was a German women's rights activist and social worker.
Life and work
Mathilde roll was born in Tübingen and spent her childhood with her three younger siblings on a farm in Ellwangen. There you got one for that time for girls exceptionally good education by their parents. Her father had therefore specially passed the primary school teacher exam. Then she visited the girls' secondary school in Ellwangen.
1851 she married the agricultural economist Heinrich von Weber. This was appointed in 1854 as Professor of Forestry and Agriculture at the University of Tübingen and in 1858 a lease agreement for the goods Bläsiberg at Tübingen from.
Mathilde Weber came in 1869 for the first time in contact with the women's movement. As the first Süddeutsche she attended the annual meeting of the company founded in Leipzig in 1865 General German Women's Association. She was elected to the board and remained until 1900 member of the board.
1870, the couple moved Weber in the newly built house in Tübingen Neckarhalde 52 where Mathilde Weber lived until her death. After the move, she was a co-founder of a " medical association". She was instrumental role in the founding of the Tübingen school women's work, the predecessor of today's Mathilde Weber school. Like Ottilie Wildermuth and many others, she signed the founding declaration for this school.
Since 1879 unfolded Mathilde Weber, after hesitation in the context of the General German Women's Association, an active lecturing on women's days. 1880 called Mathilde Weber on in the Tübingen Chronicle establishing an auxiliary arms and Employment Association. With the proceeds of lectures and bazaars in 1886, she went out to realize the project of a pension for indigent single women. On one provided by the city of Tübingen available building site ( corner Belthle-/Weberstraße ) a semi-detached house with small apartments to cheap rents originated. It was Hunter pin, named after the deceased in the same year Professor daughter, who had deposited her legacy the starting capital. Due to the many applications, a second house was already four years after its inauguration built, the so-called Weber pen, in the Weber Street was later named after her. In 1896 she founded another woman 's home in the Hechinger Straße, the Mathilde pen.
In addition, they began to publish from 1887. In addition to travel letters and chats the important polemic doctors for women's diseases, ethical and sanitation need to be opened with the access of women to study medicine appeared. This document has been entered as a petition to the land and the Reichstag, but only learned first significant rejection. The reasons for the rejection Mathilde Weber saw in all these men, " the difficult to release herself from the bonds of the old familiar and traditional ."
The General German Women's Association set up in 1888 a petition to all German governments, in which the release of the medical profession and to the necessary opening of the universities was required for women. Attached was the polemic Mathilde Weber. All provincial governments granted entry refused.
The activated in the discourse Royal Medical College of recommended doctors instead of training qualified midwives. Although women were not denied the ability to study medicine - although " the few spiritually higher standing " Women sloppiness and unfemininity was accused of - the ability to practice medicine was not them but awarded.
Even this small concession was soon undone, because - as Walcher, spokesman for the medical - college and nephew Mathilde Weber - it should be seen as the " duty of all sustaining elements of our present society ," " a party of revolution, such as the women's emancipation party in their consequences shown, with all the power to oppose, even if it should not succeed to stop the movement, which is just as dangerous to the state, and threatens the present society to the same extent as the similar trends tracked Socialists and nihilism. "
Died 1890 Her husband, Heinrich von Weber, who certainly supported in their efforts, and she accompanied to the General Assemblies of the General German Women's Association.
The Reichstag in 1891 responded "full joy " to the question of women's studies. Although individual women studied for years in the German universities, but only thanks to special permits as guest students. So a special permit from the King of Württemberg, thanks to the intercession of their great-uncle, a high official, Maria Linden, which began a science degree as the first student in Tübingen in 1892 had. She saw Mathilde Weber, with whom she frequented regularly, as a woman who " all women's movement " was, and " in her house not only all items brought back to Tübingen professional working, scholarly and political women " gathered, " but was also strives incessantly, these women to honor and help them. "
1899 gave the city of Tübingen Mathilde Weber entitled " benefactress of the city ". Later, a road ( Weber Road ) and vocational school ( Mathilde Weber School ) have been named after her.
On June 22, 1901 Mathilde Weber died and was buried in the town cemetery in Tübingen. The grave was dissolved in 1978.