Minna Cauer Papers

Period  (1867-) 1892-1922 (-2009)
Total size   1.12 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Wilhelmine Th.M. (Minna) Cauer-Schelle was born in Freyenstein, Prussia 1841; died in Berlin 1922; leader of the left wing of the bourgeois women's movement; founded the society Frauenwohl in Berlin in 1888, which she led until 1919; executive member of the Kaufmännische und Gewerbliche Hilfsverein für Frauenstimmrecht in 1889; organized the Mädchen- und Frauengruppen für Soziale Hilfsarbeit in 1893; politically active until after the First World War.

Content

Diaries 1906, 1911-1922; manuscripts 1918 and n.d.; notes c. 1883-1917; correspondence with Margarete Heck 1895-1897, 1915-1918, Walther Rathenau 1918, Lilly von Stoffregen 1916-1922 and others c. 1868-1922; also letters from August Bebel 1896, 1911, Albert Einstein 1920, Selma Lagerlöf 1911, telegram from Maria Montessori 1921 and letter from Clara Zetkin 1913; manuscripts and notes c. 1883-1917 and other documents c. 1898-1920;

Accrual 2009: Gabriele Braun-Schwarzenstein : correspondence with Karoline Cauer 1977-1986, Wolfgang Mommsen 1977-1981, Lily Somerhausen-von Stoffregen 1978-1985 and others; typescripts and notes on Minna Cauer 1968, 1982 and n.d.; transcripts of diaries, letters and manuscripts of Minna Cauer 1868-1922; documentation on Minna Cauer and the women's movement c. 1892-1998; Lilly von Stoffregen : correspondence 1924-1927, 1947, 1984 and n.d.; typescript on Minna Cauer 1982; Muschka von Witt : correspondence with Minna Cauer and others 1892-1922.

Processing information

Inventory made by Jan Gielkens in 1983; accrual by Tiny de Boer in 2009.

Alternate Form of Material

Security microfilms of a part.