Martha Voß-Zietz

Martha Voß-Zietz
Born(1871-07-23)23 July 1871
Hamburg, German Empire
Died8 December 1961(1961-12-08) (aged 90)
Bad Schwartau, Germany
Organization(s)Women's Welfare Association
German Union for Women's Suffrage
Political partyGerman Fatherland Party
German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation
SpouseFriedrich Voß

Martha Pauline Catharina Voß-Zietz (23 July 1871 – 8 December 1961) was a German conservative, women's rights activist, suffragist, nationalist and writer. She founded the German Union for Women's Suffrage, co-founded and was the chairwoman of the Association of German Housewives' Associations and joined the German Fatherland Party.

Biography

Voß-Zietz was born in 1871 in Hamburg, German Empire,[1][2] and had family roots in Eutin.[3] While visiting family in Eutin, she met Friedrich Voß and they married.[4]

In 1899, Voß-Zietz founded the liberal Women's Welfare Association (German: Verein Frauenwohl).[5][6] In 1902, she founded the German Union for Women's Suffrage (German: Deutscher Verband für Frauenstimmrecht).[7][8] She gave lectures on women's suffrage in Eutin.[4]

In 1912, Voß-Zietz was a board member of the German Women's Congress (German: Deutscher Frauenkongreß) in Berlin.[4] In 1915, Voß-Zietz was co-founder and the chairwoman of the Association of German Housewives' Associations (German: Reichsverband deutscher Hausfrauenvereine) [de],[7][9][10] known as the Reich Association of German Housewives' Associations (RDH) from 1924.[11]

During World War I, Voß-Zietz worked as a consultant for the War Food Office, under the auspices of the Prussian War Ministry.[12] She published articles with advice for housewives so that they could cope with wartime economic changes.[12] She gave talks on wartime nutrition and budgeting.[13]

Voß-Zietz joined the German Fatherland Party (German: Deutsche Vaterlandspartei, DVLP), founded in 1917.[10] She was critical of the women's committee of the German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP).[14]

After the German defeat in World War I, Voß-Zietz wrote articles for the newspapers Der Tag and Deutsche Zeitung, covering topics such as loyalty to the fatherland, preserving the concept of "German honour" and demanding the return for the territories of Danzig (now known as Gdańsk) and Upper Silesia to Germany.[15] She encouraged women to read about how the ancient Teutons had pushed their exhausted menfolk back towards their enemies.[15]

By 1922, Voß-Zietz had beco me more politically right-wing and was known for being antisemitic.[16] She joined the newly founded German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation (German: Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, DVSTB).[15][17]

In the 1920s, Voß-Zietz praised Benito Mussolini, the totalitarian dictator of Fascist Italy from 1922, for his work to restrict the import of foreign foods, writing "how can a responsible citizen not wish for a man like Mussolini, who ends with a strike of the pen the import of bananas and teaches Germans to eat German apples?"[18]

Voß-Zietz died on 8 December 1961 in Bad Schwartau, Germany, and was buried in Eutin.[4]

References

  1. ^ Wer ist's? (in German). Vol. 6. Verlag Herrmann Degener. 1912. p. 1692.
  2. ^ "Martha Voss-Zietz". Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  3. ^ Boller, Manuela (19 January 2019). "Zentrale Figur Fräulein Zietz". shz.de (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  4. ^ a b c d "100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht: Auf den Spuren von Martha Voss-Zietz, Regine Jepp beleuchtete Eutins Geschichte hinsichtlich der Frauenbewegung vor dem 19. Januar 1919" (PDF). Der Reporter (in German). 26 January 2019. p. 3.
  5. ^ Passmore, Kevin (2003). Women, Gender, and Fascism in Europe, 1919-45. Manchester University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7190-6617-7.
  6. ^ Bigot, Annick (1988). "Les fédérations de femmes ménagères sous la République de Weimar". Le Mouvement social (in French) (142): 103–106. doi:10.2307/3778601. ISSN 0027-2671. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  7. ^ a b Omran, Susanne (2000). Frauenbewegung und "Judenfrage": Diskurse um Rasse und Geschlecht nach 1900 (in German). Campus Verlag. p. 284. ISBN 978-3-593-36564-0.
  8. ^ Heinsohn, Kirsten (1997). Politik und Geschlecht: zur politischen Kultur bürgerlicher Frauenvereine in Hamburg (in German). Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte. p. 393. ISBN 978-3-923356-82-9.
  9. ^ Lange, Helene; Bäumer, Gertrud (1915). Die Frau: Monatsschrift für das gesamte Frauenleben unserer Zeit (in German). F.A. Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung. p. 636.
  10. ^ a b Streubel, Christiane (2006). Radikale Nationalistinnen: Agitation und Programmatik rechter Frauen in der Weimarer Republik (in German). Campus Verlag. p. 94. ISBN 978-3-593-38210-4.
  11. ^ Bussenius, Astrid (2003). 100% Bad Oldesloe: Frauen nehmen Einfluss, 1945 bis 2003 (in German). Dräger. p. 36. ISBN 978-3-925402-46-3.
  12. ^ a b Weber, Heike (2013). "Towards 'Total' Recycling: Women, Waste and Food Waste Recovery in Germany, 1914–1939". Contemporary European History. 22 (3): 371–397. doi:10.1017/S0960777313000209. ISSN 0960-7773. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  13. ^ "Die Stadt Solingen organisiert Vorträge mit Martha Voß-Zietz (Hamburg) zum Thema "Ernährung im Krieg", besonders für Hausfrauen..." 1914-1918: Ein rheinisches Tagebuch, Quellen aus Archiven des Rheinlands (in German). 9 February 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  14. ^ Heinsohn, Kirsten (2010). Konservative Parteien in Deutschland 1912 bis 1933: Demokratisierung und Partizipation in geschlechterhistorischer Perspektive (in German). Droste. p. 100. ISBN 978-3-7700-5295-0.
  15. ^ a b c Sharp, Ingrid; Stibbe, Matthew (14 February 2011). Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923. BRILL. pp. 72, 77. ISBN 978-90-04-19172-3.
  16. ^ Süchting-Hänger, Andrea (2002). Das "Gewissen der Nation": nationales Engagement und politisches Handeln konservativer Frauenorganisationen 1900 bis 1937 (in German). Droste. p. 209. ISBN 978-3-7700-1613-6.
  17. ^ Harvey, Elizabeth (24 August 2004). "Visions of the Volk : German Women and the Far Right from Kaiserreich to Third Reich". Journal of Women's History. 16 (3): 152–167. ISSN 1527-2036. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  18. ^ Scheck, Raffael (1 January 2004). Mothers of the Nation: Right-Wing Women in Weimar Germany. Berg Publishers. pp. 75–76. ISBN 978-1-85973-707-1.
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