Auguste Jorns

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Auguste Georgine Gabriele Jorns (born October 6, 1877 in Hanover ; † February 7, 1966 there ) was a German economist , headmistress and social politician .

life and work

Auguste Jorn was the daughter of one of Osterode am Harz coming owner of a copper - rolling mill and the sister of art historian Marie Jorn . She attended the secondary school for girls from 1884 to 1894 and ran the household for her father after the death of her mother. Only after his death did she attend one of the first high school courses for women in Hanover. Since women could only acquire the school leaving examination at a foreign grammar school, Auguste Jorns took it in 1907 as an external student at the secondary school in Osterode am Harz at the age of 30. For the historian Karin Ehrich, she was one of the "pioneers who, at a time when there were no general legal regulations for high school education for women, treaded a path paved with all sorts of stumbling blocks."

Auguste Jorns studied economics and law in Munich, Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin . In 1912, she was with a study on the social policy of the Quakers , for which it material in the British Quaker Library Devonshire House Reference Library had collected, to Dr. rer. pole. PhD . The Friends Historical Association , founded in Philadelphia in 1873, wrote in 1913 that the fact that the first scientific study of their social and philanthropic work had come from a German lady would discredit the Quakers and recommended an annotated translation into English. In 1931 the study, translated by Thomas Kite Brown , was published as a book in New York and reviewed by Edith Abbott in the social science journal Social Service Review .

Work in Hanover

Back in Hanover in 1917, Auguste Jorns succeeded Adelheid von Bennigsen as the first scientifically trained specialist to head the Christian-Social Women's Seminar (CSF) of the German-Evangelical Women's Association . Until 1928 she was the only full-time teacher and responsible for 19 part-time teachers. Jorns set up the curriculum and shaped the theoretical lessons. She taught social studies, economics, political studies and welfare work. Until 1942 Auguste Jorns was the headmistress of the CSF, which trained most of the municipal welfare workers.

As a member of the German People's Party , from 1919 to 1933 she was one of the first female mayors in the Hanover city parliament. On the basis of her professional knowledge and experience, she was significantly involved in this function in the reorganization and organization of welfare services in the Weimar Republic and helped to set up the youth welfare office in Hanover .

In 1952 she was elected first chairwoman of the women's working group of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and was involved in the central board of the CDU in Lower Saxony.

Honors

  • Auguste Jorns was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.
  • After the City Council of Hanover decided in 1999 to name new streets mainly after women who played an important role in the history of the city, a brochure was published in August 2011 which gives information about previous street names after female personalities and a series lists of people after whom street names should be made in the future. The latter also includes a short biography of Auguste Jorns .

Fonts

  • Studies on Quaker Social Policy , G. Braunsche Hofbuchdruckerei and Verlag, Karlsruhe i. B. 1912
    The Quakers as Pioneers in Social Work , translated by Thomas Kite Brown, Macmillan, New York 1931. Second edition 1969. As a facsimile reprint of the original by Kessinger Publishing 2010, ISBN 978-1-162-61623-0
  • The unification of the curriculum. In: Prussian Ministry for People's Welfare (ed.): Basic questions on the design of state-recognized welfare schools , Berlin 1926, pp. 50–55
  • The Christian-social women's seminar of the German-Evangelical Women's Association. In: Deutsch-Evangelischer Frauenbund (Ed.): 30 Years of the German-Evangelischer Frauenbund , Hannover 1929, pp. 29–32
  • Preface to the commemorative publication for the 25th anniversary of the Christian-Social Women's Seminar of the German-Evangelical Women's Association in Hanover , reports from the work of former students of the Christian-Social Women's Seminar of the German-Evangelical Women's Association in Hanover, self-published by Deutsch-Evangelischer Frauenbund e. V., Hanover: Wedekind-Straße 26, [1930]

literature

  • Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographical portraits , Hannover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , p. 240f.
  • Karin Ehrich: Strengthening the influence of women in community life. The mayor women of Hanover 1919–1933. In: Karin Ehrich, Christiane Schröder (eds.): Nobles, workers and ... - Women's life in the city and region of Hanover. Bielefeld 1999, pp. 181-210. ISBN 3-89534-292-0 .
  • Dirk Böttcher : Jorns, (1) Auguste , In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 189 and others; online through google books
  • Dirk Böttcher: Jorns, (1) Auguste. 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 , p. 325.
  • Christine Kannenberg, Sabine Poppe (editor), Luise F. Pusch, Annette Volland (assistance), Petra Utgenannt (design): Important women in Hanover , ed. from the Department for Women's Equality and from the Planning and Urban Development Association, City of Hanover, August 2011.
  • Manfred Berger : Jorns, Auguste , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 281f.
  • Gunda Rohbeck: No thanks and appreciation. Professional development of Hanoverian welfare workers . Lit Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-8861-9 (about Auguste Jorns pp. 59–422, Google Books view )
  • Corinna Heins, Anne Jäger: Women in the List / Auguste Jorns, social politician (1877–1966). In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 60 (2006), pp. 258ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Dirk Böttcher: Jorns, (1) Auguste (see literature)
  2. ↑ Karin Ehrich, Christiane Schröder (Ed.): Nobles, Workers and ... Women's Life in City and Region Hannover , Bielefeld 1999, quoted in: Gunda Rohbeck, p. 59
  3. ↑ a b Gunda Rohbeck: Renunciation of thanks and recognition. Professional development of Hanoverian welfare workers . Lit Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-8861-9 , p. 59
  4. ↑ Friends Historical Association: Studies on Quaker Social Policy by Auguste Jorn , Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Fourth Month (April), 1913), p. 29 ( http://www.jstor.org/stable/41944931 )
  5. ↑ Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies , Oxford University Press 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-960867-6 , p. 384
  6. ↑ Book Review by Edith Abbott: The Quakers as Pioneers in Social Work: Studies on the Social Policy of Quakers , Social Service Review, Volume 5 No. 3 (19310901)
  7. ^ Book Review by John A Kelly: The Quakers as Pioneers in Social Work , Bulletin of Friends Historical Association, Volume 20 No. 1 (19310401)
  8. ↑ Gunda Rohbeck, ibid., Pp. 244/245
  9. ↑ Christine Kannenberg, Sabine Poppe (editor), Petra Utgenannt (design): Significant women ... (see literature)
  10. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1931, Part 1, Library of Congress, p. 2304
personal data
SURNAME Jorns, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jorns, Auguste Georgine Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social politician on the central board of the Lower Saxony CDU
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1966
Place of death Hanover