Marie Juchacz Papers

Period 1928-1931
Total size   0.37 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany 1879, died in Bonn 1956; member of the Verein der Frauen und Mädchen der arbeitenden Klasse, and in 1908 of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD); delegate to the National Women's Congresses; in 1913 woman secretary of the SPD branch in Cologne, from 1917 in Berlin; editor of Gleichheit 1917-1919; member of the Executive of the SPD 1917-1933; member of the Reichstag 1920-1933; founded the social democratic welfare organization Arbeiterwohlfahrt in 1919; emigrated in 1935 to Mulhouse; fled to Southern France in 1939 and emigrated to New York in 1941; member of the German-American Council for the Liberation of Germany from Nazism; member of the Council for a Democratic Germany; active in the Jewish Labor Committee and the Arbeiterwohlfahrt USA-Hilfe für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus; returned to Germany in 1949.

Content

Proceedings of the Reichsausschuss für Bevölkerungsfragen, the Arbeitsgruppe I of the Reichsausschuss für Bevölkerungsfragen and the Unterkommission für Mutterschutz, Ehe- und Sexualberatung der Fachkommission 'Sexual-Hygiene' 1930-1931; printed material consisting of copies of periodicals, pamphlets, separate prints and clippings on the population problem and the fight for legislation of abortion and against the § 218 of the RStGB in the time 1928-1931 and n.d.