50 years Women's suffrage in Germany - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1969 - 30 Pfennig

Active and passive women's suffrage was demanded for the first time in the French Revolution. Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a bitter struggle over the enforcement of women's suffrage, especially in England (suffragettes). The first European countries in which it was fully realized were Finland (1906), Norway (1913), Denmark and Iceland (1915), the Netherlands and the Soviet Union in 1917. German women were given the right to vote and stand for election in 1918 , It was enshrined in the constitution of the Weimar Republic, whose 50th anniversary gave rise to the issue of the memorial sheet. Meanwhile, full women's suffrage is exercised in well over 100 countries around the world. Their numbers increase year by year. In Switzerland z. For example, it has so far only been valid in individual cantons, but in Portugal since 1951 with restrictions. One of the states that has not yet granted women political rights in Europe is Liechtenstein. Portraits of the following politicians are used for the special postage stamps of the commemorative sheet entitled "50 years of women's suffrage": Helene Weber, born in Elberfeld on 17 March 1881, became a student councilor and since 1917 has been leading the Social Women's School in Cologne or Aachen. From 1918 to 1933 she worked as a consultant, later as Ministerialrat in the Prussian Ministry of Welfare. The National Assembly and the German Reichstag belonged to it as a member of the Center Party from 1919 to 1933. She then worked in private welfare. From 1946 to 1947 she was a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, from 1948 to 1949 she was a member of the Parliamentary Council and then the German Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union. She was chairwoman of the women's committee of her party and of the Association of Catholic Women Caregivers in Germany as well as in other women's organizations, such as: B. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German Müttergenesungswerks, active. On July 25, 1962 she died in Bonn. The three women are representative in the commemorative sheet for the large number of German women who campaigned for the rights of women.