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: Gertrud Bäumer, born on September 12, 1873 in Hohenlimburg, died on March 25, 1954 in Bethel. The daughter of a theologian was first elementary school teacher and later studied philosophy. Her life was devoted to the social issue and the women's movement. She was a colleague of Friedrich Naumann and Theodor Heuss in the magazine »Hilfe« and published together with Helene Lange the magazine »Die Frau« and the »Handbuch der Frauenbewegung«. When she was relieved of all her posts in 1933, she retired to Silesia and devoted herself above all to literary works, which made her widely known as a poet. Gertrud Bäumer can be described as the representative of the "classical generation" of the women's movement. Their significance lies above all in the fact that at a time when the women's movement was spreading rapidly and leading women had to comment on ever new questions, they drew up generally binding statements on the fundamental problems.