Agnes Wurmb
Agnes Wurmb (born January 14, 1876 in Gelting ; † January 13, 1947 in Hanover ) was a German teacher and high school councilor .
Life
Agnes Wurmb was born as the daughter of a doctor in Gelting. She received her education through private lessons. In 1894 she passed her exams as a teacher in Schleswig and then initially worked in her family as a private tutor and in a boarding school for girls in Plön .
After the turn of the century, Agnes Wurmb attended newly established senior teacher courses in Göttingen . During this time she started working at the Sophia School in Hanover from Easter 1904 , interrupted in 1909 by further studies in Göttingen and in 1911 by her doctorate .
After the First World War , in the Weimar Republic in 1921, she was appointed to the provincial school council as a high school councilor - the first woman ever.
In 1925, Wurmb gave a lecture on the topic Has previous research in the field of youth psychology led to results for a psychology of the female sex?
Shortly after the seizure of power by the Nazis , it was on March 31, 1933 Wilhelm Reich was on leave and early retirement .
Immediately after the end of the Second World War , Agnes Wurmb worked in the under the cultural politician Adolf Grimme with the rebuilding of the school system in Lower Saxony. She died in early 1947. Adolf Grimme described her as "one of the most important women in Hanover in the first half of the century."
Fonts
- Agnes Wurmb: Has previous research on the psychology of young people led to results for a psychology of the female sex? , in the pedagogical-psychological series of publications of the General German Teachers' Association , Issue 1, Berlin: FA Herbig, 1925 (40 pages)
Honors
- After the City Council of Hanover decided in 1999 to name new streets mainly after women who played an important role, a brochure was published in August 2011 that gives information about previous street names after female personalities and lists a number of people which street names should be used in the future. The latter also includes a short biography of Agnes Wurmb .
literature
- Else Alpers: Agnes Wurmb 1876–1947. In: Niedersächsische Lebensbilder , ed. by Otto Heinrich May on behalf of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Hildesheim: Lax, Vol. 5, 1962, pp. 341–359
- Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographical portraits , Hannover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , pp. 262f.
- Christine Kannenberg, Sabine Poppe (editor), Petra Utgenannt (design): Important women in Hanover. Help for future naming of streets, paths, squares and bridges according to female personalities , brochure, ed. from the Department for Equal Opportunities for Women and from the Planning and Urban Development Association, City of Hanover, June 2013 ( Online , PDF, 736 kB).
- Klaus Mlynek : WURMB, Agnes. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 397.
- Klaus Mlynek: Wurmb, Agnes. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 687.
Web links
- Literature by and about Agnes Wurmb in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Klaus Mlynek: Wurmb, Agnes (see literature)
- ↑ Information from the German National Library (see web links)
- ↑ Christine Kannenberg, Sabine Poppe (editor), Petra Utgenannt (design): Significant women ... (see literature)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wurmb, Agnes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and high school councilor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelting |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1947 |
| Place of death | Hanover |