Auguste Brauns

Auguste Brauns (née Zander ; born March 5, 1893 in Bennigsen ; † December 7, 1990 in Isernhagen ) was a German nurse, school founder and local politician .

Life

Auguste Zander was born in the late early days of the German Empire in 1893 as the daughter of a railway foreman in the village of Bennigsen near Springe am Deister . She attended the Schiller School in Hanover until 1910, but then moved to Berlin in order to be trained as a nurse in Zehlendorf from 1912 to 1913 .

In 1919 she married the entrepreneur Friedrich ("Friedel") Schott , with whom she lived in Hanover. There were two children from the marriage. In the 1920s she was elected to the board of the Provincial Association of the Federation of German Women's Associations , based in Hanover.

After her divorce, she married Walter Brauns in 1933. During the Second World War , Auguste Brauns moved to Großburgwedel in 1943, the year of the most devastating air raids on Hanover . There she was - during the time of the British military government - elected to the first appointed local council from 1946 , in which she initially worked as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), later as a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) until 1961.

In 1946 she was commissioned by the local council to find a solution to the difficult school situation. In 1947 the British military authorities approved the establishment of the secondary school in Großburgwedel, today's Großburgwedel grammar school .

Auguste Brauns was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her achievements .

literature

Karin Ehrich : Auguste Brauns, "modern woman" and founder of the Großburgwedel grammar school . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 64 (2010), pp. 155–169

Web links

Auguste Brauns in the German biography

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ o.V. : Brauns, Auguste in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on January 14, 2011, last accessed on August 31, 2017
^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.
^ Gymnasium Großburgwedel: History. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Brauns, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zander, Auguste (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German nurse, teacher, school founder and director and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bennigsen
DATE OF DEATH	7th December 1990
Place of death	Isernhagen

[GWLB-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ o.V. : Brauns, Auguste in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on January 14, 2011, last accessed on August 31, 2017

[2] Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.

[3] Gymnasium Großburgwedel: History. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .