Anna Barth-Blendinger

Anna Barth-Blendinger (born March 13, 1884 in Heilbronn ; died 1971 ) founded a home economics school and the local branch of the Housewives' Association in Erlangen .

Life

She was the daughter of the teacher and cantor Hans Blendinger and his wife, née Helene Fentsch. She spent her youth in Nuremberg , from 1908 to 1910 she attended a seminar for home economics teachers. The Erlangen school supervisor Hermann Hedenus was obliged by legal requirements of the state of Bavaria to set up a "home economics training school" for girls from 1909 and brought Anna Blendinger to Erlangen, where she convinced with test lessons and a three-year curriculum. From 1911 she was employed as Bavaria's first home economics teacher. In the First World War , which soon followed , Blendinger organized childcare, harvest operations and a people's kitchen for the poor. In times of need she also kept the school going, even if the lessons were mainly of a theoretical nature.

After the World War, she founded the Erlangen girls group of the Wandervogel movement and belonged to the Erlangen Alpine Club . Furthermore, she was a co-founder of the Erlangen DDP local group and was on the board of the Erlangen district association. In 1921 she married the writer and private scholar Friedrich Karl Barth, with whom she remained married until his death in 1950.

On April 4, 1929, on the occasion of a series of lectures by the Erlanger Volksbildungsbund s , Barth-Blendinger founded the Erlangen professional organization for housewives, with which they wanted to promote the position of housewives in public life. Barth-Blendinger expanded this organization's field of activity in the following years in order to take care of young people and the unemployed. After 1933, the association's activities were restricted and work finally came to a standstill. In 1950 Barth-Blendinger re-founded her association and organized housekeeping courses, home nursing and celebrations.

On February 26, 1964, the almost 80-year-old was awarded the City of Erlangen's Citizens' Medal. The Barth-Blendinger-Straße in the city was named after her.

literature

• Ilse Sponsel: In: Frauengestalten in Franken , ed. Inge Meidinger-Geise. Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1985. pp. 219-223. ISBN 3-8035-1242-5 .