Alice Neven DuMont

Johanna Josefine Maria Alice Neven DuMont (née Minderop, born April 19, 1877, in Cologne; died August 23, 1964, ibid.) was a German women's rights activist and local and social politician. She was a co-founder of the Stadtverband Kölner Frauenvereine and a promoter of numerous social and cultural projects in Cologne. From 1919 to 1933, she was second chairwoman of the Stadtverband Kölner Frauenvereine. From 1930 to 1931 she represented the German People's Party in the Prussian provincial parliament. After the Second World War she was one of the new founders of the Cologne GEDOK in 1953. Life and work Alice Minderop was born on April 19, 1877, the only daughter of Emilie Roeder (1856-1941) and Heinrich Minderop (1842-1923). She married the Cologne newspaper publisher Alfred Neven DuMont. During the First World War, she was active in the National Women's Association. She was one of the co-founders of the Stadtverband Kölner Frauenvereine. In 1919, she took over the second chairmanship of the Stadtverband. From 1925, she organized the public relations work of the city association: the association newspaper appeared from November 1925 to May 1933 as a supplement to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, which was published by her husband. In 1926 and 1927 she took over the chairmanship of the Rhenish-Westphalian Women's Association, the supra-regional federation of city associations.