Gertrud Guillaume-Schack Papers

Period 1880-1894, 1901
Total size   0.15 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Uschtz, Silesia 1845, died in Surbiton, Great Britain 1903; married James Guillaume's brother, but soon divorced; went to Paris and attacked the state regulations for prostitutes, helped by the organization of her English counterpart Josephine Butler; founded in 1880 the Deutsche Kulturbund and tried to influence German public opinion on the abuses of state regulation of prostitution; one of the founders of the Verein zur Vertretung der Interessen der Arbeiterinnen; edited Die Staatsbürgerin, Offenbach 1885-1886, which was soon forbidden by the `Sozialistengesetz'; extradited from various German cities, moved to London in 1886; active in the Socialist League 1887-1890; until the mid-1880s active in several London radical clubs and from the turn of the century in the theosophical movement.

Content

Documents relating to the British, Continental and General Federation for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Vice and the Deutsche Kulturbund: letters, circulars, `report from Germany', statutes, notes, copies of articles, translations of pamphlets and articles by Josephine Butler and others, drafts and manuscripts of articles by G. Guillaume-Schack, printed material, press clippings; statutes of the Deutsche Verein zur Hebung der öffentlichen Sittlichkeit (founded 1881) 1882 and of the Schweizerische Frauenverband; documentation on social and economic circumstances of workers and female workers in Germany: statistics, notes, copies of articles and press clippings c. 1881-1885; some documents and press clippings on other subjects. NB. Originally part of the Nettlau collection.