Women! Equal Rights. Equal Responsibilities. Vote Social Democratic! (1919)
Abstract
This poster from the period immediately after World War I called on newly enfranchised women to vote for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the elections for the constitutional convention that would become known as the Weimar National Assembly. Given the wartime and post-armistice deprivation, the call to vote might have fallen on deaf ears. Yet Social Democrats looked forward to the creation of a new republic—with the participation of women. The poster reads: “Women! Equal rights. Equal responsibilities. Vote Social Democratic!”
Source
Source: Women! Equal Rights. Equal Responsibilities. Vote Social Democratic! Poster of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) for the election of the Constituent National Assembly, with the appeal to women to vote for the SPD, which fought for equal rights for women. 1919. DHM, Inv.-Nr. P 61/1477. German Historical Museum/S. Ahlers
© Deutsches Historisches Museum/S. Ahlers
Further Reading
Helmut Gruber, Red Vienna: Experiment in Working Class Culture, 1919–1934. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Vernon Lidtke, The Alternative Culture: Socialist Labor in Imperial Germany. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.