Hedwig Dohm

Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm (born Schlesinger, later Schleh) (20 September 1831 – 1 June 1919) was a German feminist, and author. She was one of the first feminist thinkers to see gender roles as a result of socialization and not biological determinism.

Tomb at Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof

She was born in Berlin to Jewish parents, as a daughter of (Henriette) Wilhelmine Jülich, née Beru (lastname means a Jewish pedigree from Jülich) and daughter(-in-law?) of a tobacco-maker Gustav Adolph Schleh (originally Schlesinger).

She became a wife of editor and actor (Friedrich Wilhelm) Ernst Dohm, and had 5 children:

1. Hans Ernst Dohm (1854–1866)
2. (Gertrud) Hedwig (Anna) Dohm(Pringsheim) (1855–1942)
3. Ida Marie Elisabeth Dohm (1856-?)
4. Marie Pauline Adelheid Dohm (1858-?)
5. Eva Dohm (1860-?)

She became a grandmother of the musician Klaus Pringsheim, Sr. and Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim, the wife of Thomas Mann. She died in Berlin.

• Was die Pastoren von den Frauen denken, 1872
• Der Jesuitismus im Hausstande, 1873
• Die wissenschaftliche Emanzipation der Frau, 1874
• Der Frauen Natur und Recht, 1876
• Die Antifeministen. Ein Buch der Verteidigung, 1902
• Die Mütter. Ein Beitrag zur Erziehungsfrage, 1903
• Der Mißbrauch des Todes, 1915

Literature

• Werde die du bist. Wie Frauen werden, 2 novels 1894
• Sibilla Dalmar, 1896
• Schicksale einer Seele, 1899
• Christa Ruland, 1902

• Nikola Müller und Isabel Rohner (Hg.): Hedwig Dohm - Ausgewählte Texte. Berlin: trafo Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3-89626-559-8