page_title: Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: The memorial plaque honoring Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková was unveiled in the girl's real gymnasium (high school) building on 25 October 1925, removed around 1939 and its whereabouts are unknown. Čeština: Pamětní deska Zdeňky Wiedermannové-Motyčkové byla odhalena v budově dívčího reálného gymnázia 25. 10. 1925, odstranění po 1939
context_page_description: Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková was a Moravian teacher, journal editor, and women's rights activist. Born into a family of progressive educators, she studied to become a teacher, graduating in 1886. Her Catholic education led her to more conservative values than her family's, but after teaching for several years, she began to recognize the disparities between women and men teachers, as well as those of their students. By 1898, she was publicly calling for equal pay for equal work and campaigning for equal education for boys and girls. In 1902, Wiedermannová founded and became chair of the Moravian Teachers Union, whose focus was to professionalize teaching standards. The following year, she opened a Girls' Academy in Brno, hoping later to include secondary education there. As the Austro-Hungarian Empire provided little funding for girls' education, she held lectures to provide for the operating costs of the academy. Finally in 1908, she successfully established the first girls' secondary school in Moravia.
  That year, Wiedermannová founded and became the editor for Ženská revue, a magazine publishing articles on developments in the international women's movement.
context_section_description: Wiedermannová-Motyčková died on 16 October 1915 in Brno after a heart attack, and was buried in the city's Central Cemetery. Her tombstone was designed by Julius Pelikán. Following their deaths, her sister Ludmila Konečná and her brother-in-law Alois Konečný were buried with her. She is remembered for her work to establish the first girls' gymnasium in Moravia, and for having significantly influenced the political activism of Moravian women in her era, using progressive ideas to overcome religious conservatism. Though she did not live to see it, Czech women gained the right to vote in 1918.
  Ženská revue was continued until 1920 with funding and editing provided by her sisters Ludmila and Božena, Anna Tollnerová, and Ludmila Zatloukalová-Coufalová. In 1925, a plaque honoring Wiedermannová-Motyčková's initiative to press for secondary education for women was unveiled at the Girls' Real Gymnasium on Mendel Square in Brno. Between 1933 and 1934, her sister, Ludmila Konečná wrote a memoir, Zdenka Wiedermannová: Zakladatelka ženského hnutí na Moravě, 1868–1915 (Zdenka Wiedermannová: Founder of the Women's Movement in Moravia, 1868–1915), which is contained in the archives of Alois Konečný and Ludmila Konečná at the Museum of National History and Geography in Šumperk.
caption: Memorial plaque honoring Wiedermannová-Motyčková at the Girls' Real Gymnasium on Mendel Square in Brno, 1925
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