August Busch
Amalie Auguste Friederike Busch , née Berndt ( October 1, 1829 in Eilenburg – June 19, 1907 in Leipzig ) was a German teacher . In Leipzig she created a home economics-oriented vocational school complex with an attached teacher training college .
Life
Auguste Berndt was the daughter of master horn lathe operator Johann Gottlob Berndt and his wife Henriette Karoline. In 1850 she owned a shop for cleaning, linen and millinery. In 1857 she married the merchant Johann Heinrich August Busch (1818–1907) from Oberbösa , Weißensee district (Thuringia ). The shop and her apartment were located in Leipzig from 1863, at An der Pleiße 7 (today Martin-Luther-Ring ) in what was then the Reichelschen front building .
From her business activities, Auguste Busch recognized the need to give girls lessons in special handicrafts. She therefore also gave instructions on how to cut laundry, make women's clothing and plaster . In terms of methods , she got advice from the Lette-Verein Berlin , the Mode-Academie Dresden and Julie Legorju in Kassel , the main representative for the redesign of handicraft lessons.
In the first half of the 1870s, she pursued the plan to establish a corresponding handicraft school. In March 1875 she submitted a corresponding application to the Leipzig school authority. On October 1, 1875, classes began as a technical school for female handicrafts with 47 students from the "higher classes" in the Busch couple's private apartment.
After this financially successful start, Auguste Busch continued to expand her school. In 1876 she and three students began a seminar for handwork teachers for elementary and trade schools , the first in Saxony and sponsored by the Saxon Queen Carola . A trade school for poor confirmed girls followed in 1877 .
In 1878 Auguste Busch and her husband bought the corner property at Kleine Burggasse 6 (today Straße des 17. Juni) at the corner of Harkortstraße and privately financed the construction of a new school building for 218,000 marks . From 1879, the offer in the new building was expanded to include an evening sewing school for poor women and girls (1884), an evening cooking school for hired workers (1891), a seminar for housekeeping teachers (1901) and itinerant cooking courses with instructions for ironing (1903). In 1893, the Carola Association was founded as the legal sponsor of these trade school institutions, and the name Carola School became established. Auguste Busch now called himself Oberin.
With the exception of grants for needy schoolgirls, she took no public grants. By 1907, 767 full and 373 half-vacancies were financed through official funding and private donations. A total of over 3,000 girls and women from working-class circles were trained. School administration officials from German cities, but also foreign delegations sat in on the Leipzig school.
At the request of Queen Carola, Auguste Busch founded the Obererzgebirge women's school with a home economics school in Schwarzenberg in 1884 , of which she also took over the management. In 1904 she took part in the International Women's Congress in Berlin and in the meeting of Saxon women teachers in Leipzig.
The childless Busch couple made the city of Leipzig their sole heirs in their will. Auguste Busch died after a serious heart condition, her husband followed her four months later. Both were buried in the New Johannisfriedhof . The school continued as the City Carola School in Leipzig . During the Second World War , the Carola School was destroyed. The property has not yet been developed again and is used as a parking lot.
awards
- 1900: Carola Medal in silver
- 1902: Sidonia Order
literature
- Auguste Busch , in: Illustrirte Zeitung , Leipzig, Volume 129, number 3340 from July 4, 1907, page 20.
- On the practical solution to the woman question , in: Die Gartenlaube , 1881, Issue 37, pp. 615–616.
web links
- Busch, Amalie Auguste Friederike (née Berndt). In: Women make history - Leipzig portraits of women. (Website of the City of Leipzig).
itemizations
- ↑ Administrative report of the City Council of Leipzig for the year 1893 , p. 147 ( online ).
- ↑ Not to be confused with the Queen Carola Gymnasium
- ↑ Schwarzenberg postcard with women's school. Retrieved December 4, 2021 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Busch, Auguste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Busch, Amalie Auguste Friederike (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and technical school founder |
| BIRTH DATE | October 1, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eilenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1907 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Leipzig |