Schreiber, Adele (1872-1957) Also known as: Schreiber-Krieger, Adele (1872-1957)

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Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, April 12, 1922

Jane Addams to Lida Gustava Heymann, February 22, 1924

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Birth Date

1872-04-29

Death Date

1957-02-18

Birthplace

Vienna, Austria

Biographical Text

Adele Schrieber was educated at boarding schools in Germany and France, and at a young age began writing about social issues and women's rights. She married Dr. Richard Krieger in 1898. In 1904, she became a founding member of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance, and in 1910 she founded the German Association for the Rights of Mothers and Children, while running a center for unmarried mothers. After WWI, she in the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic as a member of the Social Democratic Party. She was a German delegate to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance conference in 1919, authored several books and edited women's journals, and served as president of the German Red Cross.

In 1924, Schreiber, while a member of the Reichstag, gave a speech entitled "The Ideals of New Germany and Its Leaders," in Chicago, where she was the guest of the Chicago Woman's Club. Fluent in five languages she frequently lectured in the United States and in Europe. When the Nazi Party came into power in 1833, she fled to Switzerland and died in that country in 1857.

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Journalist

Politician

Women's rights activist

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Picture: Adele Schreiber-Krieger, Wikimedia (German)

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lynn, Stacy

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Rightsholder being researched

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Female

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1921

Bibliography and Links

"Downtown Clubs," Chicago Tribune, Feb. 10, 1924, p. 75.

Kathryn Kish Sklar, Anja Schuler & Susan Strasser, eds., Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885-1933 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998), p. 281.

Maggy Hendry and Jenny Uglow, eds., Dictionary of Women's Biography, 4th ed. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 518.

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“Schreiber, Adele (1872-1957),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed October 18, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/15755.