Louise Keilhau

Louise Keilhau (1860–1927) was a Norwegian teacher and peace activist.[1] She founded the Norwegian Committee for Permanent Peace and she was a founding member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).

Louise Keilhau
in 1915 at the Hague
Born
Louise Ottesen

1860
Died1927
NationalityNorway
Occupationteacher
Known forpeace activist
ChildrenWilhelm Keilhau

Life
International Congress of Women in 1915. left to right:1. Lucy Thoumaian - Armenia, 2. Leopoldine Kulka, 3. Laura Hughes - Canada, 4. Rosika Schwimmer - Hungary, 5. Anika Augspurg - Germany, 6. Jane Addams - USA, 7. Eugenie Hanner, 8. Aletta Jacobs - Netherlands, 9. Chrystal Macmillan - UK, 10. Rosa Genoni - Italy, 11. Anna Kleman - Sweden, 12. Thora Daugaard - Denmark, 13. Louise Keilhau - Norway

Keilhau has realised that war was coming in the early part of the twentieth century and she traveled internationally to make ready. She was a leading member of the Norwegian Red Cross.[2]

Keilhau was credited with inspiring the Norwegian Red Cross to take an active role in relief of suffering during the First World War. She was the only woman on the Red Cross's executive board and she with the support of other women encouraged the Norwegian Red Cross to look up from its domestic problems.[2]

In 1915 she was chosen as the Norwegian delegate to a peace conference in the Hague.[1] Delegates were called from around the world although many had difficulties attending because the peace efforts were "only" of women and hostilities made travel difficult.[3] At the conference, she proposed resolution 28 that "We women, in International Congress assembled, protest against the madness and horror of war, involving as it does a reckless sacrifice of human life and the destruction of so much that humanity has laboured through centuries to build up."[4]

She founded the Norwegian Committee for Permanent Peace and she was a founding member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).[4]

Personal life

She was the mother of economist and historian Wilhelm Keilhau.[5]

References
  1. "13. Louise Keilhau 1860 – 1927" (PDF). Wilpf.org. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  2. "Humanitarianism (Norway) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)". Encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  3. Jutta M. Joachim (24 July 2007). Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights. Georgetown University Press. pp. 42–44. ISBN 1-58901-233-X.
  4. "Louise Keilhau". Women In Peace. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  5. Munthe, Preben. "Wilhelm Keilhau". In Helle, Knut]] (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
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