Marianne Weber
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Marianne Weber, born Marianne Schnitger on August 2, 1870 in Oerlinghausen, died March 12, 1954 in Heidelberg), sociologist, women's rights activist and wife of Max Weber.
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[edit] Life and work
Marianne Schnitger was born on August 2, 1870 in Oerlinghausen to medical doctor Eduard Schnitger and his wife Anna Weber, daughter of a linen manufacturer. After the death of her mother in 1873 she moved with her father to Lemgo and lived there with her grandmother and aunt. She attended all-girl schools in Lemgo and Hanover. After the death of her grandmother in 1889 and several years as a house daughter with relatives in Oerlinghausen she in 1892 moved in with relatives of her mother, Max and Helene Weber, parents of her future husband Max Weber, the sociologist. In 1893 she and Max Weber married in Oerlinghausen and moved into their own apartment in Berlin. After moving to Freiburg in 1894 she began to engage herself in the women's movement and continued this involvement after moving to Heidelberg in 1897. After the publication of her first book in 1900: Fichtes Sozialismus und sein Verhältnis zur Marxschen Doktrin, her main work appeared in 1907: Ehefrau und Mutter in der Rechtsentwicklung. In the year 1919 Marianne Weber became a member of the German Democratic Party and a delegate in the federal state parliament of Baden. From 1919 to 1923 she was the chairwoman of the Federation of German Women's Associations. Shortly after the move of the couple to Munich in 1919 her husband died in 1920. In the following years she pursued the publication of his works. After her return to Heidelberg in 1921 she received in 1924 an honorary doctoral degree in law from the University of Heidelberg. Her very influential biography Max Weber: Ein Lebensbild was published in 1926. Up to her death in 1954 she was active in Heidelberg as a researcher and author. She also cared for the four children of Max Weber's sister Lili, whom she had adopted after Lili's death in 1922.
[edit] Major works
- Fichtes Sozialismus und sein Verhältnis zur Marxschen Doktrin (1900)
- Beruf und Ehe (1906)
- Ehefrau und Mutter in der Rechtsentwicklung (1907)
- Die Frauen und die Liebe (1935)
- Erfülltes Leben (1946)
- Lebenserinnerungen (1948)
- Max Weber. Ein Lebensbild. München: Piper, 1989. (Serie Piper 984). ISBN 3-492-10984-5
- Frauen auf der Flucht (2005) ISBN 3-89528-517-X
[edit] External links
- [1] (in German)
[edit] See also
- History of feminism
- Marianne Weber (Dutch singer)
