Frieda Nadig, Elisabeth Selbert, Helene Weber and Helene Wessel: Anyone who is not familiar with these names can get information from the Tölz district office.
Bad Tölz - Frieda Nadig, Elisabeth Selbert, Helene Weber and Helene Wessel are the four “mothers of the Basic Law”. It is thanks to their commitment that equality was anchored in the Basic Law in 1949. "Men and women have equal rights", is stated in Article 3, paragraph 2. Since Tuesday, an exhibition in the foyer of the Tölz district office has commemorated the political commitment of these four women.
Their life and work are illustrated on 17 panels with texts and pictures. The posters come from the Helene Weber College. On the occasion of the anniversary "100 years of women's suffrage", the traveling exhibition 2017 was expanded and related to the current situation of women in politics.
"We need more female role models"
It is thanks to Karin Weiß, the district equal opportunities officer, that the informative display boards have now come to Bad Tölz.
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At the opening ceremony in the district office, district administrator Josef Niedermaier (FW) said a word of greeting. He stressed the importance of “more women standing up and running for political office”. Karin Weiß added: “We need more female role models. A Merkel alone is not enough. "
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In the lecture “Loud, strong, successful ?! - Politics and the Women's Movement in the 20th Century ”, the Nuremberg historian Nadja Bennewitz outlined the history of women's rights movements in Germany from 1919 and underlined that there is still plenty of need for gender equality.
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