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Christine Antonia Hengst (born April 16, 1897 in Essen ; † February 6, 1966 there ) was a German school councilor. In 1945 she was the first woman in such an office in North Rhine-Westphalia to be appointed school councilor. In addition, she was chairwoman of the Association of Catholic German Teachers and deputy chairwoman of the diocesan committee of the Catholic committees of the Archdiocese of Cologne .

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Christine Hengst was born the daughter of a city office assistant. She was the oldest of nine children, all of whom also had educational or social professions.

After graduating from elementary school, she learned the profession of elementary school teacher. After passing her teacher exams, she worked from 1916 to 1919 as an auxiliary school teacher. This was immediately followed by a position as a teacher at a school for the hearing impaired in Essen until 1945. She made a name for herself as a curative teacher out of passion and expanded her training during a leave of absence from 1925 to 1927 by studying philosophy , psychology and psychopathology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In addition, through the politician and teacher Elisabeth Stoffels, she became a permanent member of the elementary school committee, in which she represented the field of curative education .

During the time of National Socialism , Christine Hengst stood up against the National Socialists and therefore had to resign from her position as head of the youth teacher training program in Essen. She did not join any National Socialist organization and instead, like Elisabeth Stoffels, was an active member and chairman of the Association of Catholic German Teachers based in Essen, which was known as a resistance center , between 1933 and 1952 . As a devout Catholic and on behalf of Cardinal Karl Joseph Schulte , she headed the working groups for religious sisters between 1934 and 1942 in order to train them to exercise ecclesiastical teaching power, the acquisition of the Missio canonica .

In 1945 Christine Hengst was appointed school councilor, where she was the first woman in North Rhine-Westphalia to take up such an office and received a lot of recognition from the male staff. She was responsible for all special schools in the city of Essen.

Together with Mathilde Kaiser, Christine Hengst founded the working group of the Essen Catholic women's associations , which she headed from 1945. In the same year she became a member of the board of the diocesan committee of the Catholic committees of the Archdiocese of Cologne. From 1955 she was deputy chairwoman there.

After she had also headed the Borbeck school district and did some voluntary work, Christine Hengst retired in spring 1962 due to health problems. She lived by her principle of social satisfaction:

"If we do not create peace in our immediate environment, there can be no peace outside."

Christine Hengst was buried in the Essen park cemetery.

literature

  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 144 .
  • Elisabeth Mleinek: Christine Hengst † . Ed .: Catholic women's education. Organ of the Association of Catholic German Teachers. Essen 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruhr news from 1./2. December 1956: She was the first female school councilor in North Rhine-Westphalia. Christine Hengst celebrates her 40th anniversary today.