Anne Banaschewski

Anne Magdalena Banaschewski (* May 16, 1901 in Welschbillig / Eifel ; † May 4, 1981 in Hamburg ) was a German reform pedagogue , art historian and long-time director of the ' Institute for Teacher Training ' in Hamburg.

Life

After elementary school , the doctor's daughter went through high school, the Lessing School in Mannheim , a reform secondary school for boys. She studied art history, literature and medieval history in Heidelberg and Würzburg up to her doctorate in 1923 on the painter Christian Georg Schütz the Elder . Then she worked for a publishing house and as an editor for a literary magazine in Munich. In 1926 she became the mother of a son and turned to education; a scholarship from the mayor enabled her to study again at the University of Hamburg in 1929 (with Wilhelm Flitner and William Stern). With the 1st state examination she entered the Hamburg public school service, a single parent and as an assistant teacher. In the Nazi state, she was transferred away from a school with a reform pedagogy.

In 1945, as a board member, Banaschewski co-founded the " Society of Friends of the Fatherland Schools and Education System" which was dissolved during the Nazi era and which later became the Hamburg Education and Science Union (GEW). Max Traeger , who held together a small group of the former board of directors of the society during the National Socialist era , collected unencumbered teachers. The school authorities appointed her headmistress of the Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel elementary school . She had been in contact with Peter Petersen since 1946 , and her school was taught according to the Jena Plan . In 1951 the school received approval to work from school to high school. Three years later it was called the Peter Petersen School (since 2010 Irena Sendler School). After his death, Banaschewski wrote: “Everything that we have in us today as a demand for the new school: group work , weekly schedule instead of timetable, report instead of certificate, discussion group instead of teacher question, individual work equipment instead of class, he has implemented in his school. "

In 1952, school senator Heinrich Landahl (SPD) appointed her director of the Institute for Teacher Training in Hamburg. After a few years this institute was called 'Bannarium' by teachers. She retired in 1966. She wanted to do the advanced training for the teachers' “écucation permanente”, for which she demanded a lot from her staff (ironically, therefore: “conférence permanente”).

Historical tombstone for
"Anna Magdalena Banaschewski",
in the women's garden, Ohlsdorf

A "General German Teachers' Association of the British Zone" to form, found on 29 September 1946 in the Old Town School in Celle a first meeting held in Hamburg were Max Traeger , Albert Herzer and Hermann Lange involved Braunschweig by the General Association teacher Heinrich Rodensteinstraße , Lothar Dringerling, Richard Oberbeck and Karl Thurn and Fritz Thiele from Celle. The former chairwoman of the 'General German Association of Teachers', Emmy Beckmann from Hamburg, agreed with Traeger that there should no longer be a teacher organization if women were guaranteed a minimum number on the board. The founding delegates agreed on January 9 and 10, 1947 in Detmold to name the "General German Teachers Association of the British Zone". At the first meeting of representatives of the ADLLV in Hamburg in 1947, Anne Banaschewski was elected editor of the newly founded Allgemeine Deutsche Lehrerzeitung (ADLZ). She held this honorary position until 1950. She also worked on the main board of the GEW, from 1957 to 1963 as chairman. In 1958 the GEW appointed her to a commission headed by the philosopher Eugen Fink to present a 'plan for the reorganization of the German school system' (“ Bremen Plan ” 1960), which shaped the educational policy of the GEW and SPD for a decade.

The tombstone for Anne Banaschewski has been in the area of ​​the “Women's Garden” at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf Cemetery since August 2019.

literature

• Willy Böge: Anne Banaschewski 70 years old , in Hamburger Lehrerzeitung (HLZ) 8/1971, p. 282 f.
• Hans-Peter de Lorent: "Anyone who does not participate will be disposed of". Anne Banaschewski, her educational work and the GEW. In: Monika Lehmann / Hermann Schnorbach: Enlightenment as a process. Festschrift for Hildegard Feidel-Mertz. Dpa-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, pp. 197-220.

Web links

• Cornelia Göksu: Women's biographies