Sophie Rogge-Börner

Sophie Rogge-Börner
Born
Pia Sophie Börner

(1878-07-24)24 July 1878
Warendorf, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia
Died7 February 1955(1955-02-07) (aged 76)
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
EmployerThe German Fighter (1933–1937)
Political partyGerman National People's Party
National Socialist Freedom Movement
Children1

Pia Sophie Rogge-Börner (24 July 1878 – 7 February 1955) was a German writer and journalist (who wrote under the pseudonym Christa Hoch). She was also an ethnic feminist and nationalist. She campaigned for gender equality and the social emancipation of Aryan women in an ideology rooted in scientific racism. She was a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP) then the National Socialist Freedom Movement (NSFB). Her writing was heavily influenced by Nordic mythology and she edited The German Fighter magazine from 1933 to 1937.

Biography

Rogge-Börner was born in 1878 in Warendorf, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia.[1][2] She grew up in garrison cities as her father was a Prussian Army officer.[3] She worked as secondary school teacher before becoming a writer.[3] In 1910, she married a German surgeon.[4]

Rogge-Börner became a member of the German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) in 1919.[3][5] She left the DNVP to join the National Socialist Freedom Movement (German: Nationalsozialistische Freiheitsbewegung, NSFB) and the German Women's Order (German: Deutschen Frauenorden, DFO).[5]

Rogge-Börner was an influential right-wing writer in the 1920s,[6] sometimes writing under the pseudonym Christa Hoch.[2] She published political pamphlets advocating for gender equality and the social emancipation of Aryan women. She was a proponent of the image of a "new Nordic woman," who "participated fully in the economic and political life of their people" side by side with their men, but who was distinct from the modern woman of the Weimar Republic.[7] This equality and emancipation for Aryan women would allow for their participation in the emerging Nazi German state.[8]

From its foundation in April 1933, Rogge-Börner edited the monthly The German Fighter (German: Die Deutsche Kämpferin) magazine in Berlin,[9] until it was banned by the Gestapo in 1937.[10] During the magazines publication run, it had an average circulation of 2,600 copies.[10] Alongside her editorship, she wrote for the magazine on ideas of German "feminist utopias"[11][12] and continued the themes of her earlier writing, such as "virulent xenophobia," "racism" and "elitist feminism."[13]

After World War II, Rogge-Börner's later writing was heavily influenced by Nordic mythology. Her works were included on the "list of literature to be discarded" [de] (German: Liste der auszusondernden Literatur) by the German Administration for Public Education (German: Deutsche Verwaltung für Volksbildung, DZVV) of the Soviet occupation zone in Germany.[14][15][16]

Rogge-Börner moved to Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, in October 1948.[17] She died in Düsseldorf in 1955, aged 76.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Rogge-Börner, Sophie". Deutsche Biographie (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  2. ^ a b c "Pia Sophie Rogge-Börner". Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  3. ^ a b c Wittrock, Christine (1981). Das Frauenbild in faschistischen Texten und seine Vorläufer in der bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung der zwanziger Jahre (in German). Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt am Main. p. 169.
  4. ^ Mohler, Armin (1999). Die konservative Revolution in Deutschland, 1918-1932: ein Handbuch (in German). Leopold Stocker. p. 362. ISBN 978-3-7020-0863-5.
  5. ^ a b Scheck, Raffael (1 October 2001). "Women on the Weimar Right: The Role of Female Politicians in the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP)". Journal of Contemporary History. 36 (4). SAGE Publications: 547–560. doi:10.1177/002200940103600410. ISSN 0022-0094. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  6. ^ Passmore, Kevin (2003). Women, Gender, and Fascism in Europe, 1919-45. Manchester University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-7190-6617-7.
  7. ^ Clinefelter, Joan L. (2005). Artists for the Reich: Culture and Race from Weimar to Nazi Germany. Berg Publishers. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-84520-200-2.
  8. ^ Tierney, Helen (1989). Women's Studies Encyclopedia: History, philosophy, and religion. Greenwood Press. p. 334. ISBN 978-0-313-24646-3.
  9. ^ Kirkpatrick, Clifford (1981). Nazi Germany: Its Women and Family Life. AMS Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-404-16949-7.
  10. ^ a b "Frauen im NS: Sophie Rogge-Börner und »Die deutsche Kämpferin« 1933-1937". The anti-fascist press archive and education center Berlin (apabiz) (in German). 1 April 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  11. ^ Boukrif, Gabriele (2002). Geschlechtergeschichte des Politischen: Entwürfe von Geschlecht und Gemeinschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (in German). Lit. p. 98. ISBN 978-3-8258-5873-5.
  12. ^ Bitzan, Renate (2000). Selbstbilder rechter Frauen: zwischen Antisexismus und völkischem Denken (in German). Edition Diskord. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-89295-691-4.
  13. ^ Griffin, Gabrielle; Braidotti, Rosi (2002). Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women's Studies. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-84277-002-3.
  14. ^ "Buchstabe R, Liste der auszusondernden Literatur. Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Verwaltung für Volksbildung in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone. Vorläufige Ausgabe nach dem Stand vom 1. April 1946 (Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946)". www.polunbi.de (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  15. ^ "Buchstaben Q und R, Liste der auszusondernden Literatur. Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Verwaltung für Volksbildung in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone. Zweiter Nachtrag nach dem Stand vom 1. September 1948 (Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948)". www.polunbi.de (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  16. ^ "Buchstaben Q und R, Liste der auszusondernden Literatur. Herausgegeben vom Ministerium für Volksbildung der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Dritter Nachtrag nach dem Stand vom 1. April 1952 (Berlin: VEB Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1953)". www.polunbi.de (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  17. ^ Miller-Idriss, Cynthia; Pilkington, Hilary (28 April 2020). Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right: Mechanisms of Transmission and the Role of Educational Interventions. Routledge. p. 1908. ISBN 978-0-429-81269-9.

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