Anna Zillken

Anna Zillken (born July 17, 1898 in Wallerfangen ; † February 12, 1966 ) was a German pioneer, author and teacher of social work.

Life

Zillken grew up in Wallerfangen and then studied in Berlin. In 1922 she was Agnes Neuhaus's secretary . She dealt with issues and areas of responsibility of social work. Together with her sister Elisabeth Zillken , she worked in the social student movement, the "Sunshine Circle" named after the founder, pastor Carl Sonnenschein . Also since 1922 she belonged to what was then the Catholic Welfare Association , now the Social Service of Catholic Women (SkF). In 1925 she was accepted at the University of Cologne on the basis of her dissertation The Christian Thought of the State in its ideal content and in its historical modification. PhD. From 1928 to 1962 she was the director of the 1916 welfare school in Dortmund. During the time of National Socialism, the school was evacuated but continued in Salzkottenund under the most difficult conditions. In 1948 the school returned to Dortmund, initially in a temporary barrack. During this time, she began to work for the Union Catholique Internationale de Service Sociale in Brussels .

1950 Zillken took over the chairmanship of the Catholic Association of Social Schools . From 1952 to 1962 Zillken was a member of the board of the Conference of German Schools for Social Work . One of the areas of activity here was the development of schools and the reorganization of social education. Zillken also sat on the board of the General German Welfare Education Day (AFET) and on specialist committees of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare . She helped to set up parenting advice centers and to develop ministerial guidelines for parenting advice.

A serious illness forced her to give up the management of the school in 1962. On February 12, 1966, Zillken succumbed to the disease. On August 1, 1966, the Dortmund welfare school was renamed the Anna-Zillken-Schule in memory, and then in 1999 the Anna-Zillken-Berufskolleg .

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice

literature

• Manfred Berger :  Zillken, Anna. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 1591-1595.
• Ilona H. Winkelhausen: Zillken, Anna , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 659f.

Web links

History of the Anna Zillken Vocational College