Life for Women in Weimar Germany Vs Nazi Germany

Life for Women in Weimar Germany

Vs

Nazi Germany

Life for Women in Weimar Germany:

The Weimar Republic had a very progressive attitude towards women’s rights.

Women, as well as men, were entitled to vote from the age of 20.In many other European countries at this time this was but a distant dream. For example, in Britain, many women had to wait until the age of 30 to be able to vote, while men over 21 enjoyed this democratic right.

Women were also encouraged to stand for election to the Reichstag. By 1933 10% Reichstag members were female.

In the Weimar period, women were also encouraged to enter into profession careers. Many women became:

• Teachers,
• Doctors,
• Lawyers,
• Judges and
• Civil servants.

By 1933 there were 100,000 women teachers. 3,000 were doctors. They were very well paid. 

Life for Women in Nazi Germany: 

You were given medals for the number of children you had: 

• For a bronze medal, it was 4 children,
• For a silver medal, it was 6 children and
• For a gold medal, it was 8 children.

It was illegal to use contraception if you were Aryan. And abortion wanted the death sentence.

If you are considering feeble minded, undesirable or not wanted they you were sterilised. 

From their earliest years, girls were taught in their schools that all good German women married at a young age to a proper German and that the wife’s task…