Lotte Binder was an Austro-Hungarian, later Romanian teacher and women's rights activist, belonging to the Transylvanian Saxon community.
15 Facts About Lotte Binder
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Lotte Binder was the primary representative for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in Romania from 1921 to 1926.
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Lotte Binder was born 27 October 1880 in Reps, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary, to Michael Binder and his wife.
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Lotte Binder's father, who was a pastor, was the rector of the gymnasium in Reghin.
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Lotte Binder's father taught Binder and her brothers, giving them basic courses and Latin.
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Lotte Binder helped her prepare in 1904 to take the teaching qualification exam at the Hermannstadt boys' Evangelical school.
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Lotte Binder initially taught in Rode, but by the fall of 1904 was at the girls' school in Medias, where she worked until her death.
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Lotte Binder was a delegate to the 1925 Congress of the General Association of German Female Teachers, hosted in Dresden, Germany, and the 1927 World Congress on Education, held in Locarno, Switzerland.
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In 1920, Lotte Binder became a member of the Medias District Committee and served on the People's Council, completing a three-year term.
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Lotte Binder was re-elected to these boards in 1923 and 1926, before being elected in 1929 as a member of the Medias City Council.
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Lotte Binder became involved in the women's movement and became chair of the in 1912.
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Lotte Binder attended the 1921 Vienna Congress of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was the primary activist involved in WILPF in Romania until 1926.
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In 1925, Lotte Binder became chair of the, succeeding Zay.
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Lotte Binder led a delegation of twenty-one members of the to attend the Women's Conference on Minorities, after the Vienna congress.
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Lotte Binder died on 11 August 1930 in Sibiu, Romania, following an appendectomy.