Anna Hagenbusch

Anna Hagenbusch; Source: Ida-Seele-Archiv

Grave of Anna Hagenbusch; Source: Ida-Seele-Archiv

Anna Hagenbusch (born July 26, 1913 in Neu-Ulm ; † September 6, 2005 in Stuttgart ) was a German kindergarten teacher, social worker and head of department for early childhood education in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture .

Live and act

Anna Maria was the oldest of four children. The parents, the Reichsbahnzugführer Kaspar Hagenbusch and his wife Anna, b. Gansler were deeply religious Catholics. Accordingly, the children grew up in a family atmosphere shaped by the Catholic Church. After completing elementary school and later secondary school, Anna Hagenbusch completed her training as a kindergarten teacher and after-school care worker in Ulm at the "St. Maria" seminar there, founded and led by the "Franziskanerinnen von Reute". She then worked as a private tutor, including for the Italian diplomatic and count family Pecori-Giraldi. From 1942 to 1944 she was the director of an NSV kindergarten in an emergency area in the city of Ulm . Since she no longer wanted to cooperate with the Nazi system, she was forced to do office work within the Reichsbahn.

After the collapse of the Nazi dictatorship, Anna Hagenbusch became involved in the Catholic community in Neu-Ulm. There she built up the parish youth and took care of the many refugees and displaced persons from the East who were crowding into the city. She also graduated from May 1948 to August 1949 in Freiburg / Brsg. the Caritas youth leader seminar. Immediately afterwards she took over the management of the "Bavarian State Association of Catholic Day-Care Centers" in Munich. (today: "Association of Catholic Child Day Care Facilities Bavaria"). On her initiative, several annual courses were held to acquire post-qualification for untrained secular and monastic staff in Catholic kindergartens, after-school care centers and homes. In addition, there were further training courses for the acquisition of the mission for religious education as well as "courses for kindergarten education" lasting several days in many church provinces in Bavaria. The latter courses were used to introduce Schörl pedagogy as a pedagogical concept in Catholic preschool institutions.

At the age of 57, Anna Hagenbusch dared to change jobs and took on the position of specialist advisor for matters relating to early childhood education, kindergartens, after-school care centers and playgrounds in the "Bavarian Ministry of Education", where the then Minister of Education, Hans Maier, was her superior. There she was responsible for the cooperation between the charities and the state. She was also one of the initiators of the State Institute for Early Education and the Bavarian Kindergarten Act, which came into force on January 1, 1973.

Anna Hagenbusch held many honorary positions. She was, among other things, federal chairman of the “Professional Association of Catholic Educators and Social Pedagogues of Germany” (BKESD), independent expert in the “Commission for Pre-School Education of the European Countries” at the EC in Brussels, member of the Presidium of the “Working Group of Catholic Associations for Education and Schools”, and in the "German National Committee for Education in Early Childhood".

Anna Hagenbuch, who suffered from severe dementia in old age, moved to live with family members in Stuttgart in 2001 because she could be better cared for there.

Honors

1973 the "Golden Badge of Honor of the German Caritas Association"
1978 the "Silver Plaque of the Franco-German Youth Office"
1979 the papal decoration of honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice
1981 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Works (selection)

Of health care tasks in day care centers, in: Children's home 1951, pp. 187–191 u. 213-220
Memories of the Eucharistic Congress in Munich, especially with regard to the child, in: Kinderheim 1960, pp. 267–273
Eucharistic education of the child, in: Kinderheim 1961, pp. 68–80
Religious play song with our little ones, in: Children's home 1962, pp. 182–183
Activity report of the Bavarian State Association of Catholic Day-Care Centers for 1962/63, in: Children's home 1964, pp. 38–41
On Mother's Day, in: Children's Home 1965, p. 79
Annual report 1966, in: Welt des Kind 1967, pp. 103-106
50 years in the service of children and families, in: Welt des Kind, 1968, pp. 4–9
Some thoughts on current kindergarten work, in: Welt des Kind 1968, pp. 55–59
Considerations on the cooperation between kindergarten and primary school. In: Wehrfritz GmbH (Ed.): Cooperation between elementary and primary areas, Rodach 1969, pp. 149–155
What is Preschool Education? Answers to a current topic, Ravensburg 1972
Overarching aspects of the conception of the school kindergarten or similar facilities for the support of the not yet schoolable child, in: Hagenbusch, A. (Ed.): Das schulbereite Kind. Promotion of school ability and readiness for school, Donauwörth 1985, pp. 79–110
The nursery between family, school and leisure space. Attempt a situation analysis and consequences, Donauwörth 1986
Living with children in day care facilities and other forms of family help, Donauwörth 1995

Literature (selection)

Manfred Berger : Hagenbusch, Ann (e) a Maria. In: Bautz, G. (Ed.): Biographisches-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. XXVII. Tape. Nordhausen 2007, col. 585-593
Martin Gerbert: Anne Maria Hagenbusch. A fulfilled life with great merits for kindergarten, after-school care and the Catholic associations, in: Christ und Bildung 2005, H. 11/12, p. 19

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personal data
SURNAME	Hagenbusch, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German kindergarten teacher, social worker and head of department for early childhood education in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Ulm
DATE OF DEATH	September 6, 2005
Place of death	Stuttgart