6) The golden Age - social and cultural developments

• League of German Women (BDF)


  promoted traditional families values and maternal responsibilities
• How many women elected in the Reichstag in 1919

  41
• Marianne Weber


  wrote books on feminisms and was active in German women's suffrage movement before 1914

  Joined the DDP in 1919
• women in work

  by 1925, 36% of the German workforce were women. However they were paid much less and attacked as double earners

  By 1933, there were 100,000 female teachers and 3000 female doctors
• demobilisation laws


  required women to leave jobs so that ex-soldiers could find employment
• how many people supported by welfare reforms in 1926


  800,000 disabled war veterans, 360,000 war widows and over 900,000 war orphans
• national unemployment insurance


  1927
• Youth unemployment in 1925-26

  17% of the unemployed were in the 14-21 age group
• Wandervogel


  mainly middle class boys. Highly nationalist and hated industrialisation and big cities, rejected middle class conventions
• Political youth groups

  The Bismarck Youth linked to the DNVP reached 42,000 member by 1928
• Jewish banking families


  owned 50%of private banks
• How mnay German Jews?

  more than half a million German Jews in Germany. 80% lived in big cities and were well educated
• Jewish run newspapers

  the Berliner Tageblatt and the Frankfurter zeitung
• Jews in proffesions

  in Berlin, of 3400 lawyers, 1835 were Jews

  16% of lawyers and 11% of doctors
• Nobel prizes to Jews

  9, including Albert Einstein