Elisabet Boehm

Elisabet Boehm was a German feminist, writer, founder of the first Landwirtschaftlichen Hausfrauenvereins and the founder of the rural women's movement in general.

Biography

Elisabet Steppuhn was born in Rastenburg, East Prussia, and married landowner Otto Boehm in 1880. She formed the first Landwirtschaftlichen Hausfrauenvereins, initially with fifteen members, in Rastenburg in 1898. The society's objectives were to promote educational and training opportunities, recognition of housework as professional work, bridging the gap between urban and rural and practical matters, such as improvement of production and sales in the agricultural sector.
Further societies with the same objective were established, and in 1905 Boehm was elected Chairman of the newly established East Prussian Society. By 1916 the Reichsbund Landwirtschaftlicher Hausfrauenvereine had emerged, of which Boehm was Chairman until 1929.
Boehm was also concerned with women's vocational training and in 1912, she founded the first Landwirtschaftliche Frauenschule.

Publications

Translator's note: These are in German.

Elisabet Boehm; Dr. W. Borgmann; E. A. Brödermann; Dr. H. Bade u.a.: Illustriertes Landwirtschafts-Lexikon. 2 Bände. Hrsg. v. P. Gisevius. 5., neubearbeitete Auflage. Berlin: Verlagsbuchhandlung Paul Parey, 1920, 625 und 558 Seiten; 6., neubearb. Auflage, 1923Die deutsche Landfrau und ihr Wirken in Haus und Vaterland. Berlin: Paul Parey, 1924, 181 S.; 2., neubearbeitete Auflage 1927, 183 S. Wie ich dazu kam! Berlin: Reichsnährstand Verlags-GmbH, 1941, 60 S.