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

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 women politicians are used for the special postage stamps of the commemorative sheet entitled "50 years of women's suffrage": Marie Juchacz, Marie-Elisabeth Lüders and Helene Weber. The three women are representative in the commemorative sheet for the large number of German women who campaigned for the rights of women.