Anna Börschmann

Anna Auguste Börschmann (* July 6, 1871 in Prökuls / Memelland ; † January 18, 1939 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German reform pedagogue and director of the first girls' school in Vegesack .

biography

Börschmann was the daughter of the court treasurer (accountant) Robert Börschmann. Her brothers were the physician and social democratic parliamentarian Friedrich Börschmann (1870-1941) and the professor, government building officer and sinologist Ernst Börschmann (1873-1949).

From 1889 to 1897 Börschmann worked as an educator in private houses in East Prussia and Hungary. In 1898 she passed the examination for teaching at higher girls' schools in Memel . She was then a teacher at a city school in Marggrabrowa in East Prussia until 1904 . She studied French, history and philosophy in Paris and at the University of Königsberg . In 1905 she passed the senior teacher examination and was then employed until 2007 in Marienburg in West Prussia at the municipal high school for girls and at the same time at the teacher seminar.

1907 was Boerschmann in Bremen testing as a school Head and they immediately became director of the Higher Municipal School for Girls Vegesack , later Municipal Lyceum Vegesack , appointed in place of Louise Ash, who led the school founded in 1901 previously. She headed this school for 25 years; she was followed in 1932 by Dr. August Freese. In doing so, she oriented the school to the women's emancipatory program of the Prussian girls' school reform of 1908, which was also adopted in Bremen in 1912. She introduced the subject of psychology as a novelty in order to include a. thereby strengthening the girls' self-determination education. From 1907 to 1918 the women's rights activist Agnes Heineken also taught at this school; both were friends.

Literature, sources

• Romina Schmitter: Börschmann, Anna Auguste . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .