Auguste Sprengel

Auguste Sprengel (born August 9, 1847 in Waren , † October 21, 1934 in Berlin-Friedenau ; full name: Auguste Friderica Luise Sprengel ) was a German educator and founder of the German women's school movement.

Life

origin

Auguste Sprengel was born on August 9, 1847 as the eldest of four children of Marie Sprengel (née Zeuner) and the lawyer Albert Sprengel in Waren an der Müritz. Her father worked as a lawyer in Rostock, from 1841 he was city judge in goods. Although her father died in 1854, the mother was able to give Auguste and her siblings a good education. Her sister Louise also became a teacher, her brother Otto († 1915) became a doctor.

education and profession

Auguste Sprengel attended a private girls 'school in her hometown from 1852, the citizens' girls 'school from 1860 and a private secondary girls' school in Rostock from 1862 .

From 1864 Auguste Sprengel trained as a teacher and then worked in various private houses in the vicinity of Waren. In 1870 she passed the state teacher examination in Hanover. She was a teacher at the newly founded municipal secondary school in Waren, in 1879 she took over the management of the school as headmaster. The Waren school was the first of its kind under female leadership. It was on her initiative that the teachers' retirement home was founded in Waren in 1891, which was supposed to contribute to better pension provision for teachers in private schools.

In 1882, Sprengel was a co-founder and first chairwoman of the Mecklenburg branch for the higher education for girls . The curricula she created contributed to raising the level of the public and private high schools for girls in Mecklenburg. However, when Sprengel applied for further training courses to be set up for young women after leaving school, the municipality of Waren rejected this.

Auguste Sprengel's grave in Waren

Auguste Sprengel went to Berlin, advocated a new type of secondary school for girls and founded the first German women's school in Berlin-Friedenau in 1904 , which she ran until 1911. This form of secondary educational institution for women was finally officially introduced with the reorganization of the secondary school system for girls in Prussia in 1908 . Auguste Sprengel died in Berlin on October 21, 1934. She was buried in goods.

Honors

In 1895 Sprengel was awarded the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with the Great Golden Medal for “special services rendered to the state”. The school she founded in Berlin-Friedenau was named after her in 1926 and was called Auguste-Sprengel-Lyceum until it was closed. Today's Beethoven School in Berlin-Lankwitz was also called the Auguste Sprengel School from the 1930s to 1948. In addition, a school in Waren was named after her.

Publications

• The new women's school. Contributions to the curriculum of the women's school . Teubner , Leipzig 1920.
• Messages about the Susemihl, Zeumer, and Sprengel families . Berlin-Lichterfelde 1931.
• Memories from my school life . Berlin-Lichterfelde 1932.

Web links

• Literature about Auguste Sprengel in the state bibliography MV
• biography
• Biography at Stadt Waren (Müritz), Luftkurort - Stadtmagazin 2008 , p. 19 (PDF file; 1.1 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronicle of the cemetery of Waren (Müritz) , p. 15 (PDF file; 737 kB)
2. ^ Bärbel Kuhn: Marital status single: celibate women and men in the middle class (1850-1914) . L'Homme series , writings 5. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag 2000, p. 400 digitized
3. ^ Paul Hiller: Chronik Lankwitz (= preprint . Volume No. 5/6). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , p. 82 f .; see. u. a. various literature on Elisabeth Schmitz , who was transferred to the Auguste Sprengel School in Berlin-Lankwitz in 1935.