Gertrud Bäumer
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Gertrud Bäumer (Hohenlimburg, 12 September 1873 - Bethel, 25 March 1954) was a German politician who actively participated in the Feminist movement. 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 member between 1919 and 1932.
[edit] Further reading
- Kevin Repp (2000). ""More Corporeal, More Concrete": Liberal Humanism, Eugenics, and German Progressives at the Last Fin de Siècle". The Journal of Modern History 72: 683–730. DOI:10.1086/316045.
- Kevin Repp (2000). Reformers, Critics, and the Paths of German Modernity: Anti-Politics and the Search for Alternatives, 1890-1914. Boston, MA.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674000579.
[edit] External links
(German) Biographie: Gertrud Bäumer, 1873-1954 at the Deutsches Historisches Museum