Background
Else Mayer was the daughter of the German jeweler Victor Mayer.
Else Mayer was the daughter of the German jeweler Victor Mayer.
She was one of the pioneers of the German Women"s Liberation Movement. She spent her childhood and youth in the family business before she became a nun. After she visited several nunneries she decided to found her own, Erlöserbund, in 1916.
With the support of her family she bought buildings in Bonn and started to support young female students who received housing from her.
Erlöserbund was closed in 2005 and reorganized as a charitable foundation. The Else Mayer Foundation presents an annual award, the, to applicants who are deemed to qualify as ideological successors to Else Mayer.
The award constitutes in 4000 euro.