Gertrud Bäumer
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Politician
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who actively participated in the Feminist movement
Feminist movement
The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment and sexual violence...
. She was also a writer, and contributed to Friedrich Naumann's paper Die Hilfe.
She was head of the Federation of German Women during World War I. After the war she joined the German Democratic Party, for which she was a Reichstag
Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
The Reichstag was the parliament of Weimar Republic .German constitution commentators consider only the Reichstag and now the Bundestag the German parliament. Another organ deals with legislation too: in 1867-1918 the Bundesrat, in 1919–1933 the Reichsrat and from 1949 on the Bundesrat...
member between 1919 and 1932.
External links
Biographie: Gertrud Bäumer, 1873-1954 at the Deutsches Historisches MuseumDeutsches Historisches Museum
The German Historical Museum , DHM for short, is a museum in Berlin devoted to German history and defines itself as a place of enlightenment and understanding of the shared history of Germans and Europeans....