Brigitte Gilles

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Brigitte Gilles (born October 9, 1928 ; † March 4, 2003 in Aachen ) was a German psychologist and university professor. It was in 1991 the first woman officer of RWTH Aachen selected.

Life

Brigitte Gilles was the daughter of Jacob August Gilles (1890–1963), an engineer from Eupen in Belgium, and Paula, née Tilgenkamp (1897–1988), and a cousin of the Belgian national handball player Robert Gilles . She studied psychology and received her doctorate in 1964. phil. at the University of Bonn with the dissertation: " Investigations into the periodic play behavior of 6-10 year old children ". After completing her habilitation, she received a chair for psychology at the pedagogical faculty of the RTWH Aachen in 1980, which arose from the takeover of the Aachen department of the Rhineland Pedagogical University . Brigitte Gilles was elected dean of the Faculty of Education in 1983 and was taken on as a professor from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1989 until she retired in 1994, after the Faculty of Education at RWTH was finally dissolved.

Brigitte Gilles campaigned for gender equality at universities from an early age, and in particular for the role of women in academic careers, and participated in scientific studies on gender-specific disadvantages at universities. As a result, the office of women's representative at RWTH Aachen was introduced in 1991 and Brigitte Gilles was elected as the first women's representative at RWTH Aachen. This finally fulfilled a request from 1981 supported by her, among others, in which the establishment of an autonomous women’s project was decided at a women's plenary meeting and the call for the establishment of a so-called “women's officer” was officially articulated for the first time. With the entry into force of the State Equal Opportunities Act in 2014 and in connection with the gender mainstreaming program at RWTH Aachen University, this voluntary activity was renamed "Equal Opportunities Officer". In addition, Brigitte Gilles was a long-time member of the board of the German section of Soroptimist International and headed it as its Union President.

Gilles / Tilgenkamp gravesite, Aachen forest cemetery

Brigitte Gilles died on March 4, 2003 and found her final resting place in the family grave at the Aachen forest cemetery .

Brigitte Gilles Prize

The RWTH Aachen University's “Women's Advancement Prize” was awarded for the first time in 2000 and has been advertised annually since then. Since 2008, this award has been renamed the “Brigitte Gilles Prize” in memory of the first women's representative at RWTH Aachen University.

Every year two prizes, endowed with € 2,500, are awarded in two different categories. In this way, the university supports school projects on the one hand, which serve to arouse and promote the interest of girls in today's MINT subjects , and on the other, projects and measures that improve the living, study and working conditions of women at RWTH Aachen and raise them support their career path. The respective projects must not be more than two years ago when the application was submitted, but they may still be in a development stage with guaranteed implementation and must have a recognizable connection to RWTH. The prizes are awarded during the "RWTHtransparent" event in the first quarter of each year.

Previous winners from the schools included the Couven-Gymnasium, the Einhard-Gymnasium Aachen , the St.-Angela-Schule Düren , the Gymnasium Zitadelle Jülich , the Anne-Frank-Gymnasium Aachen and the Junior-Ingenieur-Akademie am Inda Gymnasium Aachen. RWTH Aachen honored, among others, the UMIC Cluster of Excellence , the women of the multidisciplinary team of the neurosurgical polyclinic, the Ladies 'Talk and Ladies' Day working group at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering , the MINT Didactic Competence Center and the Doctorate CAFÉ .

literature

  • Franz Pöggeler : Charisma for teacher training: in memory of Brigitte Gilles , in: Klaus Heuer: Findbuch for the Franz Pöggeler estate , German Institute for Adult Education, Bonn 2011, POE 034, 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the tombstone in the Aachen forest cemetery
  2. ↑ 100 years of women's studies at RWTH Aachen University - The Equal Opportunities Office , archive documents from June 25, 2009 in the Aachen University Archive
  3. ↑ 20 Years Equal Opportunities Office in RWTH insight 4/2011, page 2
  4. ↑ Mention in Soroptimist Germany
personal data
SURNAME Gilles, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and university professor; first women's representative at RWTH Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1928
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2003
Place of death Aachen