Anna Schomburg

Anna Rebecka Schomburg (born March 19, 1875 in Bremen ; † July 1, 1955 in Fulda ) was a German educator and school founder.

biography

Schomburg was the daughter of the carpenter and then surveyor Johann Heinrich Schomburg (1838-1916). Her mother was the captain's daughter Anna Wischhusen from Bremen- Grohn . She was the older sister of the pedagogue Dietrich Schomburg (1884–1971).

She graduated from a secondary school for girls and from Ida Janson's teacher training college in Bremen. She taught at a private school and since 1898 at the Janson Girls' High School. She also acquired the teaching qualification for the higher grades and in 1908 took the headmistress examination for higher girls’s schools. When the educator Agnes Heineken (1872–1954) publicly criticized the Bremen state's failings in the girls' school system in June 1907 and was then fired by Janson, Schomburg and four other women also quit and left Janson's school.

In 1909 she founded a private, higher school in Bremen, Hamburger Strasse no. 8. Schoolrooms were soon added at Lüneburger Strasse no. Here she implemented her educational reform ideas in line with the ideas of the Bremen teachers Fritz Gansberg and Heinrich Scharrelmann . From 1912 to 1914 she received state licenses to set up a middle school and an upper school for a girls' school. Around 1911 98 girls and 39 boys were attending their school. In 1913/14 she was able to realize a new school building for the middle school at Hoyaer Straße No. 11 on Brommyplatz and the number of pupils rose to around 400. In 1921 the school was recognized as a Lyzeum ( Lyzeum Schomburg ). In 1924, the private higher girls' schools, including her school, were taken over by Bremen. By 1928 the number of students had dropped to 183.

Her brother Dietrich had already become a teacher at her school before the First World War and was a director of the school from 1929 to 1945. This help made it possible for her to continue her education; she studied history and art history at the University of Hamburg . During her many study visits to Italy, she also obtained an Italian language diploma. Anna Schomburg managed the school until 1939, her brother followed her in the school management.

literature

• Dietrich Schomburg: Anna Rebecka Schomburg In: The Historical Society Bremen and the State Archive Bremen (ed.) Bremische Biographie 1912-1962 , Bremen 1969, p. 455 Sp. 1–456 Sp. 1.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Elisabeth Hannover-Drück : Schomburg, Anna Rebecka . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .

Web links

• Elisabeth Hannover-Drück: Bremen Women's Museum - Portraits of Women: Anna Schomburg