Berlin women's association for the promotion of Froebel's kindergartens
The Berlin Women's Association for the Promotion of Fröbel'schen Kindergartens (Berliner Fröbel-Verein) was an association that promoted the establishment and maintenance of kindergartens as well as new training and work opportunities for women in line with Friedrich Froebel's pedagogy .
history
The association was founded in 1859 by Lina Morgenstern and Adolf Lette . According to the statute from 1871, his intention was:
- Instruction of the female sex for their educational profession,
- Establishment and maintenance of kindergartens for all classes,
- Training of the teachers necessary for the same,
- Training of nannies for the family,
- Introduction of these principles into the existing custody facilities.
One of the first and most important tasks of the association was to take action against the Prussian kindergarten ban that existed in 1851. Thanks to the initiative of Adolf Lette and Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow , this was canceled in 1860. The latter was actively involved in the association. She founded the first club kindergarten in 1863, but left the club in the same year and founded the club for family and popular education . In 1874, both associations merged to form the Berlin Froebel Association . The two associations had a total of nine kindergartens, two kindergarten teacher seminars and a nanny institute.
Very soon after it was founded, the association was offering training courses for kindergarten teachers and nannies (Bonnen) and nannies. The seminarians were taught a. a. in:
- a) Health care and gymnastics.
- b) Soul doctrine and general education.
- c) Special Froebel way of upbringing.
- d) The beginnings of space theory.
- e) Care of the voice and singing.
- f) The practical activities and games of the kindergarten.
In the 1930s u. a. the following institutions of the association: "Anna Wiener Krippe", Bornholmer Straße 91, "I. Volkskindergarten ", Schönfließer Straße 7," II. Volkskindergarten ", Utrecht Strasse 31," I. Daycare ", Schönfließer Strasse 7," II. Kinderhort ”, Hohenlohestraße 10 and“ Kinderstube im Städt. Shelter".
During the Nazi dictatorship , the association got into more and more difficulties, especially since many members and people in positions of responsibility were of Jewish origin, such as Gertrud Pappenheim , Anna Wiener-Pappenheim , Martha Wertheim, Recha Woffsohn, etc. Around 1940 the general assembly decided to dissolve the it was finally completed two years later.
swell
- Brochures of the association, archived in the Ida-Seele archive
- Jo Voss: History of the Berlin Froebel movement. Weimar 1937, pp. 50-98.
literature
- Emmy Bernsheim: The Berlin women's association for the promotion of Fröbel'schen kindergartens . A contribution to the history of the kindergarten system (1859–1944). Hamburg 2004 (unpublished diploma thesis).
- Meinolf Nitsch: Private charities in the German Empire. Berlin / New York 1999, pp. 52-57.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotation from Bernsheim 2004, p. 12.
- ↑ Quoted from the prospectus, archived in the Ida-Seele archive