Sources

  1. Women during the May Day Rally in Berlin (May 1, 1946)

  2. Control Council Law No. 32 on the Employment of Women in Building and Reconstruction Work (July 10, 1946)

  3. Elisabeth Meyer-Spreckels, “Marriage and Family in the Constitution: Report to the Bavarian Constitutional Assembly” (August 14, 1946)

  4. Resolution of the Second Party Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany on the Women’s Question (September 24, 1947)

  5. The 6th Interzonal Trade Union Conference: Position of Women in the Economy, the Restructuring of Social Security (October 21–23, 1947)

  6. Writer and Feminist Dr. Agnes von Zahn-Harnack (c. 1948)

  7. Die Neue Zeitung on the Public Discourse over the Problematic Issue of Equal Rights (January 13, 1949)

  8. Speech by GDR Minister President Otto Grotewohl: “For the Happiness of Our Mothers and Children” (September 27, 1950)

  9. The Federal Executive Board of the Democratic Women’s League of Germany: Working Directive on the Law for the Protection of Mothers and the Rights of Women (November 6, 1950)

  10. The Position of the German Association of Women Academics on a Draft Version of the Equal Rights Law (August 1952)

  11. The Position of the Marriage Law Commission of the Protestant Church in Germany on the Draft Version of a Family Law (December 1952)

  12. The Chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Fulda, Cardinal Joseph Frings, on the Reorganization of the Marriage and Family Law (January 30, 1953)

  13. Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (FDP) on the Petition by the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Fulda (February 1953)

  14. Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (1932)

  15. Law on the Equality of Men and Women in the Area of Civil Law (June 18, 1957)

  16. Federal Minister Franz-Josef Wuermeling on the Task of Family Policy (1958)