Minna Cauer

Wilhelmine Minna Cauer Theodore Marie, born clamp ( born 1 November 1841 in Freyenstein; † August 3, 1922 in Berlin) was a German educator, activist in the radical wing of the women's movement and journalist.

Life

Minna Cauer was the daughter of the priest Alexander clamp and his wife Juliane (nee Wolf Schmidt). In 1862 she married a doctor, who died four years thereafter. They undertook a one-year training to become a teacher and worked in Paris in 1868.

In 1869, she married second husband, the city council Eduard Cauer, with whom she lived in Berlin. With her ​​husband, she was active in the progressive policies of the 1870s and 1880s. She devoted herself to female historical studies, for example, resulted in highly regarded essays on famous female figures to Rahel Varnhagen. She was co-founder of the association Woman Welfare.

Cauer was vehement crusader for women's suffrage, the support of single mothers and for the free choice of women. From 1892 onwards she also belonged to the German Peace Society, which was founded by Bertha von Suttner. In 1908 she joined the newly formed Democratic Association, the first bourgeois party in Germany called the unrestricted right to vote for women. In the last years of her life, however, she no longer believed that the bourgeois parties had the courage to bring progress in the hallway, and she put her hopes for the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

In 1895 she founded the newspaper The women's movement, she edited until 1919. For Cauer the magazine, which she opened in principle all directions and aspects of the women's movement was, for his life's work. In particular, the women's movement mouthpiece of the radicals, not only because it was some advanced organ of the Association of Women's Associations organized clubs, but mainly because of their radical staff, as Cauer himself or Hedwig Dohm and Anna Pappritz. Cauers journalistic process in countless editorials was to provide a contemporary discourse deems to be relevant topic woman in a societal context, or vice versa, to update political or cultural issues than for women particularly relevant; preferably, it was the political significance, particularly pointing out worked the left-liberal Cauer.

Cauer was also interested in working women and was the founder of the Association of women employees.

Cauer was on the old St. Matthew's Cemetery in Berlin -Schöneberg Großgörschenstr. 12 buried ( Graganlage Q -o -47 ). 2006, a newly landscaped streets was named north of the Berlin central station after her.

Honors

Quote

"We end tragically and suffer martyrdom, if we want to carry into the future too early in the present. "

" There are higher and the world more moving than the victory of the sword - the victory of the spirit of justice and freedom. And in these final victory I believe today still rock solid. "

Bibliography (selection)

• The woman in the United States of North America, 1893
• The woman in the nineteenth century, 1898