Angelica Kill

Angelika Elisabeth Kill OSU (* 1917 ; † June 6, 2003 ) was a member of the Order of the Ursulines ( Ordo Sanctae Ursulae , German: "Society of Saint Ursula ") and for many years director of the Fritzlar Ursuline School in the North Hessian town of Fritzlar , Schwalm- Eder circle .

She initially trained as an accountant , but then studied music in Duisburg and became a concert singer. During the Second World War she got to know Ursulines working in a hospital while on a spa stay in the Taunus and decided to join the order. In 1947 she entered the Ursuline convent in Fritzlar as a postulant , where she finished her novitiate on April 9, 1953 and took her religious vows . Then she studied in Marburg for teaching at secondary schools; she was the first nun to study there. After completing her studies and her legal traineeship at the Fritzlar König-Heinrich-Schule , she began teaching at the girls' school run by her convent in Fritzlar.

On April 1, 1961, Sister Angelika was appointed head of the school. She held this office until her retirement on June 17, 1992 and was temporarily superior of the convent. During this time, she actively and purposefully pursued the expansion of the school in order to meet the changing requirements of the time and the requirements of the legislature. In 1967 and 1968, supervised learning afternoons were introduced. In 1970 the previous half-day school was converted into a full-day school with a special level and, with the admission of the first two boys, the start of coeducation . From September 1, 1977, the school was run in three parts, with main , secondary and high school branches . Thus, within seven years, the school had been transformed from a half-day girls' high school into a full-day coeducational comprehensive school. Even after the diocese of Fulda took over the school sponsorship on August 1, 1989, she remained the headmistress and initiated the reconstruction of the upper school level with the 11th grade at the school, which until then had only run up to 10th grade , the first Abitur was taken at the school since 1957, and in the following year the state recognition of the upper secondary school it had built took place.

Sister Angelica Kill went on 17 June 1992 in retirement . In 1997 she was made an honorary citizen by the city of Fritzlar - as the second woman in the history of the city after the Vincentian Veronika Jüngst, who was honored in 1951 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Veronika Jüngst had worked in the Fritzlar “Hospital zum Heiligen Geist” since 1901.

literature

• Andrea Froneck-Kramer: Animus; the spirit, the mind, the courage, the heart. History of the Ursuline monastery Fritzlar from 1711-2006 , Euregioverlag, Kassel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-933617-28-6
• Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , June 17, 2003

Web links

• Obituary, on the website of the Ursuline School in Ftitzlar (PDF; 34 kB)
• Website of the Fritzlar Ursuline School