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

Designer: Professor Hans Förtsch und Sigrid Förtsch/von Baumgarten

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


Theme: Health & Human
CountryGermany / Federal Republic of Germany
Issue Date1974
Face Value40.00 
Colororange
PerforationK 14:13 3/4
Printing TypeIntaglio and offset printing
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number680
Chronological ChapterGER-BRD
SID249844
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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: Luise Otto-Peters, born in Meissen on March 26, 1819, died in Leipzig on March 13, 1895. Her teenage years were marked by literature and German idealism. She wrote a series of volumes of poetry, published in 1847 "Songs of a German Girl," and a series of novels with a sociocritical accent such as "Ludwig the waiter." Decisive were the revolutionary years 1848-50. They encouraged Luise Otto-Peters in the realization that the women had to organize themselves. April 1849, the first German women's newspaper appeared under her direction. Motto: "I advertise to the realm of freedom". It rejected any emancipation which "degraded the woman to the caricature of the man", but set up a complete program that "trains the free development of all our forces" and demanded "the right of maturity and independence in the state." The newspaper inspired women for the "peaceful democratization of the entire people." The main achievement of Luise Otto-Peters is twofold. Once she awakened the conscience of the public for the plight of the worker, and secondly she united the bourgeois women first in Leipzig in 1865 in a women's education society, from which in the same year the Allgemeine Deutsche Women's Association "became the germ cell of all the following German women's organizations. The historical merit of Luise Otto-Peters is based on her ability as an initiator, combined with her talent for fearless activity and organization. She is the founder of the German organized women's movement.

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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: Luise Otto-Peters, born in Meissen on March 26, 1819, died in Leipzig on March 13, 1895. Her teenage years were marked by literature and German idealism. She wrote a series of volumes of poetry, published in 1847 "Songs of a German Girl," and a series of novels with a sociocritical accent such as "Ludwig the waiter." Decisive were the revolutionary years 1848-50. They encouraged Luise Otto-Peters in the realization that the women had to organize themselves. April 1849, the first German women's newspaper appeared under her direction. Motto: "I advertise to the realm of freedom". It rejected any emancipation which "degraded the woman to the caricature of the man", but set up a complete program that "trains the free development of all our forces" and demanded "the right of maturity and independence in the state." The newspaper inspired women for the "peaceful democratization of the entire people." The main achievement of Luise Otto-Peters is twofold. Once she awakened the conscience of the public for the plight of the worker, and secondly she united the bourgeois women first in Leipzig in 1865 in a women's education society, from which in the same year the Allgemeine Deutsche Women's Association "became the germ cell of all the following German women's organizations. The historical merit of Luise Otto-Peters is based on her ability as an initiator, combined with her talent for fearless activity and organization. She is the founder of the German organized women's movement..