Important German women - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1974 - 40 Pfennig

The influence of women in the social life of the Federal Republic of Germany is constantly growing. Gender equality is being realized in ever new spheres of life under the protection of the constitutional guarantee in Article 3 (2) of the Basic Law. The early developmental history of women's emancipation is characterized by the courageous outburst of significant loners from social conventions. Her work was signal and example. With the new special postage stamp series, the Deutsche Bundespost presents four important women from German political life. Headshots are used for the four values ​​of the special postage stamp series: Helene Lange, born on April 9, 1848 in Oldenburg, died on May 13, 1930 in Berlin. She was a teacher and in 1887 demanded in the "Yellow Booklet" a reorganization of girls' education led by women and an extension and improvement of teacher training. As long-time chairman of the "General German Teachers Association" founded by her, she developed a women's education program, with which she took over the spiritual leadership of the bourgeois women's movement. Together with Gertrud Bäumer she published the magazine "Die Frau" and from 1901 the "Handbuch der Frauenbewegung". As a leader of the "General German Women's Association" and as a member of the board of the "Association of German Women's Associations," she was the decisive intellectual force within the bourgeois women's movement until the First World War, and even later, at a time when the women's movement began in Germany. In her associations, she tried to prepare the entry of women into politics, especially through a targeted civic education. Helene Lange played a key role in improving the girls' education system and the training of female teachers and decisively influenced the German bourgeois women's movement before the First World War. She is considered the most important leader of the German bourgeois women's movement.