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Pages in category "German feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 225 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A young German girl in dirndl watching boys playing. German traditional costume, including the dirndl, was instrumentalized by the Nazis as a symbol of pan-German identity in the countries under Nazi rule (Germany from 1933, Austria from 1938). [13] The dirndl was used to promote the Nazi ideal of the German woman as hard-working and fertile.
According to the Social Security Administration, many of the top 100 girl names in 2021 come from German origins: Emma, Sophia, Mia, Alice and Emily, to name a few.
Traditionally, there are dialectal differences between the regions of German-speaking Europe, especially visible in the forms of hypocorisms.These differences are still perceptible in the list of most popular names, even though they are marginalized by super-regional fashionable trends: As of 2012, the top ten given names of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany) and of Schleswig-Holstein ...
The traditional role of women in German society was often described by the so-called "four Ks" in the German language: Kinder (children), Kirche , Küche , and Kleider (clothes), indicating that their main duties were bearing and rearing children, attending to religious activities, cooking and serving food, and dealing with clothes and fashion ...
In Sex in Education, Or, A Fair Chance for Girls (1873), American educator Edward H. Clarke researched educational standards in Germany. He found that by the 1870s, formal education for middle and upper-class girls was the norm in Germany's cities, although it ended at the onset of menarche, which typically happened when a girl was 15 or 16.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: German This category exists only as a container for other categories of German women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
The league of German Maidens was derogatorily nicknamed by the counter-cultural Swingjugend "The League of German Mattresses", suggesting sexual promiscuity between the sex-separated groups who claimed to be traditional and conservative. [3] [4] Its full title was Bund Deutscher Mädel in der Hitler-Jugend (League of German Girls in the Hitler ...