Edith Geheeb

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Edith and Paul Geheeb, 1909

Edith Johanna Geheeb b. Cassirer, also: Edith Geheeb-Cassirer (* August 5, 1885 ; † April 29, 1982 ) was a German reform pedagogue and the second wife of Paul Geheeb , the founder of the Odenwald School and the École d'Humanité .

Life

Coming from a Jewish family, her relationship with Paul Geheeb was initially viewed critically, but accepted after some struggle. Edith's father, the factory owner Max Cassirer , financed the expansion of the Odenwald School, founded in 1910, in the most generous manner and, until the Geheebs emigrated to Switzerland in 1934, repeatedly paid for the deficits of their school. Her mother was Hedwig Cassirer, née Freund.

Paul and Edith Geheeb had to emigrate to Switzerland with an initially small group of schoolchildren during the National Socialist rule, which gradually grew. First they found a temporary home in Versoix on Lake Geneva , then they moved to Schwarzsee (Lac Noir) in the canton of Friborg. Like the Geheebs themselves, many of the teachers and youth who lived in the school were refugees. With the children, Geheebs were still looking for a suitable location for their school. They have been rejected in many communities. Shortly before the Swiss police wanted to take their children away from them, Edith Geheeb found a suitable place in Goldern am Hasliberg , where they founded the École d'Humanité . There they were allowed to stay after some back and forth.

On October 7, 1941, the Deutsche Reichsanzeiger published the expatriation decisions of the Reich Ministry of the Interior in the form of the expatriation list 257 of the German Reich, through which Edith Geheeb and her husband were legally expatriated from the German Reich .

Edith Geheeb was an important support for the school and also for Paul Geheeb. In some ways she was the realistic, rational person in charge who made the school possible, while her husband was prone to dreamer and was of a slightly unsteady character. Until her death, she actively participated in the leadership of the École d'Humanité.

literature

  • Markus Bruckner: Edith Geheeb (1885–1982) . In: Hans-Ulrich Grunder (Ed.): Reform women in school. A reader . Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2005, pp. 130-139, ISBN 3-89676-974-X .
  • Judith Büschel: Edith Geheeb. A reform pedagogue between the pedagogical ideal and practical school management . Weidler, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89693-401-5 .
  • Judith Büschel: Edith Geheeb (1885–1982) - Headmistress of the Odenwald School and École d'Humanité? In: Zeitschrift für Museum und Bildung , 63, 2005, pp. 28–39.
  • Martin Näf: Paul and Edith Geheeb-Cassirer. Founder of the Odenwald School and the École d'Humanité. German, Swiss and international reform pedagogy 1910–1961 . Beltz, Weinheim 2006, ISBN 3-407-32071-X .
  • Social work and education: Edith Geheeb-Cassirer (1885–1982). In: Sigrid Bauschinger : The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 , pp. 445,447.
  • Ellen Schwitalski: "Become who you are". Pioneers of reform pedagogy. The Odenwald School in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic . Transcript, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-206-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Sigrid Bauschinger : The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 , pp. 445,447.
  2. ↑ Rosemarie Varga in: The Ecolianer , December 2009, p. 18.
  3. ↑ Michael Hepp (Ed.): The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger . tape 1 : Lists in chronological order. De Gruyter Saur, Munich / New York / London / Paris 1985, ISBN 978-3-11-095062-5 , pp. 575 (reprinted 2010).
personal data
SURNAME Geheeb, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geheeb-Cassirer, Edith; Cassirer, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1885
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1982