Henriette Fürth Papers

Period 1885-1938
Total size   0.2 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Giesen 1861, died in Frankfurt am Main 1938; women's rights activist and social democrat; took part in both the liberal and socialist women's movement as a member of the Bund für Mutterschutz and member of the editorial staff of Sozialistische Monatshefte in charge of the women's page until 1908; as a contributor to Die Gleichheit, she was highly critical of Clara Zetkin's concept of separately organizing proletarian women.

Content

Correspondence with A. Blaschko (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung von Geschlechts-Krankheiten) 1905-1906, Joseph Bloch 1905-1906, W. Mittermaier 1936-1937, Helene Stöcker 1904-1906, Marie Stritt (Bund deutscher Frauenvereine) 1905-1906, Elisabeth H. Winterhalter 1905, 1908, 1931, and others; notes; printed material for the most part consisting of proofs, pamphlets, separate prints and issues of periodicals containing publications of Henriette Fürth 1897-1930.