Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 Berlin
E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Dr. med. |
Prename: | Gabriele |
Surname: | Strecker |
Name of birth: | Schneider |
Profession: | Physician, journalist, politician |
Birthday: | 12/27/1904 |
Place of birth: | Trier |
Date of death: | 08/06/1983 |
Place of death: | Bad Homburg |
Married since: | 1930 |
Married to: | Dr. Josef Strecker |
Profession husband: | Gynecologist |
Children: | 2 |
Education: | 1940–43 university studies (medicine); doctorate |
Career: | 1944–45 physician at Bad Homburg Hospital; 1946 director of women’s radio, first with Radio Frankfurt, then 1949–62 Hessischer Rundfunk; 1954–62 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) deputy in Hesse state parliament; CDU deputy in the German Bundestag |
Memberships: | 1947 founding member of the Bad Homburg Women’s Association (Bad Homburger Frauenverband); 1948 CDU; 1950–60 board of the CDU’s Hesse branch; 1948 initiates the reestablishment of the Frankfurt chapter of the German Federation of University Women after a visit to Crosby Hall; 1952 founding member of the Soroptimist International in Frankfurt; supports the founding of the Deutscher Frauenring federation of women’s organizations; 1950–60 president of the Hesse CDU women’s group |
Biographical literature: | [Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung, Nachlass Gabriele Strecker](http://www.addf-kassel.de/bestaende/nachlass/strecker/strecker-g/index.htm) |
Major works: | *Hundert Jahre Frauenbewegung* (Wiesbaden, 1951); *Frausein – heute* (Weilheim: O.W. Barth, 1965); “Die neue Eva,” in *Eva – wo bist du?* Ed. Ursula von Mangoldt (Weilheim: O.W. Barth, 1967), 7–33; *Frauenträume, Frauentränen. Über den unterhaltenden deutschen Frauenroman* (Weilheim: O.W. Barth, 1969); *Überleben ist nicht genug. Frauen 1945–1950* (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1981) |
Links: | [Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung, Nachlass Gabriele Strecker](http://www.addf-kassel.de/bestaende/nachlass/strecker/strecker-g/index.htm) |