19 Facts About Marianne Weber

Marianne Weber was born on Marianne Schnitger, 2 August 1870 – 12 March 1954 and was a German sociologist, women's rights activist and the wife of Max Weber.

When Marianne turned 16, Karl Weber sent her off to fashionable finishing schools in Lemgo and Hanover, from which she graduated when she was 19.

In 1891, Marianne began to spend time with the Charlottenburg Webers, Max Jr.

Marianne Weber's became very close to Helene, who she would refer to as being "unaware of her own inner beauty".

In 1893, she and Max Marianne Weber married in Oerlinghausen and moved into their own apartment in Berlin.

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Marianne Weber's began to engage herself in the women's movement after hearing prominent feminist speakers at a political congress in 1895.

Marianne Weber's worked with Max to raise the level of women students attending the university.

Marianne Weber continued her own scholarship, publishing in 1907 her landmark work Ehefrau und Mutter in der Rechtsentwicklung .

In 1918, Marianne Weber became a member of the German Democratic Party and, shortly thereafter, the first woman elected as a delegate in the federal state parliament of Baden.

Between 1923 and 1926, Marianne Weber worked on Max Marianne Weber: Ein Lebensbild, which was published in 1926.

Marianne Weber continued to write during this time and published Frauen und Liebe in 1935 and Erfulltes Leben in 1942.

Basis of Marianne Weber's sociology was that of a woman in a patriarchal society.

Marianne Weber's wrote about the experiences of German women of her time, many of whom were entering the workforce for the very first time.

Marianne Weber felt that the framework and structures of marriage can be used as a case-study for the larger society, as marriage, and the destiny of women to be married, is central to the lives of women, and could be seen across the spectrum of law, religion, history and economy.

Marianne Weber's acknowledged that while marriage could restrict the lives of women, it could serve as a form of protection for women, serving to undermine "the brutal power of men by contract".

Marianne Weber's felt that the continual struggle between the spiritual and the animal is what makes people human and that rather than being a crisis to be resolved, the conflict between the natural and the moral forms the basis of human dignity.

Finally, Marianne Weber felt that differences such as class, education, age, and base ideologies, had an enormous effect on the day to day existences of women.

Marianne Weber's saw that there are profound differences not just between rural and urban women, but among different types of rural women and different types of urban women.

Urban women, of whom Marianne Weber was one, were distinguished not just by their husbands' occupations but by their own.