Elisabeth Knipping

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Honorary grave in the main cemetery in Kassel

Elisabeth Knipping (born September 26, 1869 in Rinteln , † October 19, 1951 in Kassel ) was a German educator and women's rights activist .

Life

Elisabeth Knipping was born in 1869 as the daughter of a middle-class, Protestant family in Marburg an der Lahn . Her father was the royal building officer Johann Georg Ferdinand Knipping, her mother Marie Albertine Marianne Rosalie Knipping, nee. Repeat. She had two siblings and later lived with her sister Anna in Kassel.

After attending primary school, Elisabeth Knipping completed business school courses and worked for several years as a secretary in her father's office. After moving several places with her family, she came to Kassel. In 1900, at the age of 31, she took up the position of school secretary “at the schools run by the women's education association ”. The Cassel Women's Education Association was founded by Marie Calm in 1869, when Knipping was born , and in 1870 it set up a technical school for girls in the city of Kassel. This school consisted of a home economics and business school, later with an attached teacher training institute, at which home economics, handicraft and gymnastics teachers were trained. Knipping became an employee of the later association chairwoman Auguste Förster (1848–1926). She soon became Elisabeth Knipping's mentor and encouraged her to take part in further training courses in pedagogical and technical areas. The skills she acquired there enabled her to pursue her subsequent educational career.

Elisabeth Knipping was never married. In 1951, shortly before her death, she became an honorary citizen of the city of Kassel. She died in Kassel in 1951 and is buried next to her parents in the Kassel main cemetery. Her grave is an honorary grave of the city of Kassel.

Educational and political work

Elisabeth Knipping first became a trade teacher through her further training and took over the management of the commercial school in 1904. From 1912 she became Förster's successor in the management of all the "commercial and commercial schools of the women's and educational association" that existed until then, which under her leadership developed into sought-after and Germany-wide recognized training centers for commercial, domestic and industrial professions. Even after the city of Kassel took over the educational institution in 1920, she retained the leadership. In the Weimar Republic Elisabeth Knipping was also politically active, she was involved in the German Democratic Party (DDP). In the first elections to the city council in 1919, in which women could participate, she ran for the Liberal Party. Since she was only placed in a lower position on the list, unlike three of her party colleagues, she could not move into the city parliament.

In 1933 Elisabeth Knipping retired for health reasons. After that, she was no longer able to do any further political or educational work for health or political reasons. The school was eventually brought into line and the classes in 1944 due to the war set.

Elisabeth Knipping School

After the Second World War , school operations were restarted. In 1956, the city of Kassel decided to rename the educational institution “Elisabeth-Knipping-Schule - Hauswirtschaftliche Berufsfachschule and Frauenfachschule der Stadt Kassel”.

School concept

In 1972 a vocational high school was set up with a focus on nutrition and housekeeping. In 1982 the expanded Elisabeth Knipping School was set up at the new location at Mombachstrasse 14 in Kassel. The Elisabeth Knipping School is a vocational high school with a focus on natural sciences; it has the branches of nutrition, pedagogy (today educational science), biological technology and chemical technology. After the Abitur, if you choose the two last-mentioned Abitur subjects, you can acquire a degree as a biological-technical or chemical-technical assistant within one year.

Known students

literature

  • Elisabeth Knipping School (author); Silke Coordes (editor): Elisabeth Knipping School 1870–1995. In: Archive of the German Women's Movement, Volume 5, Riehm, Kassel 1995.
  • Annette Vogt: Scientists in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes: A – Z. In: Publications from the archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, Volume 12. Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-927579-12-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.kassel.de/stadt/frauen/geschichte/info/01870/index.html (February 1, 2019)
  2. ^ Annette Vogt: Scientists in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes: A – Z. In: Publications from the archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, Volume 12. Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-927579-12-2 .
  3. ↑ https://www.kassel.de/stadt/frauen/geschichte/info/01870/index.html (February 1, 2019)
  4. ↑ http://www.elisabeth-knipping-schule.de/ (February 1, 2019)
  5. ^ Elisabeth Knipping School (author); Silke Coordes (editor): Elisabeth-Knipping-Schule 1870–1995 , 1995. In: Archives of the German Women's Movement Volume 5. Riehm Kassel 1995.
  6. ^ Elisabeth Knipping School (author); Silke Coordes (editor): Elisabeth-Knipping-Schule 1870–1995 , 1995. In: Archives of the German Women's Movement Volume 5. Riehm Kassel 1995.
  7. ↑ http://www.elisabeth-knipping-schule.de/ (February 1, 2019)
  8. ↑ https://www.welt.de/wams_print/article1547440/Lockerer-Neujahrsempfang-mit-Stars-und-Mafiosi.html (January 30, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Knipping, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Rinteln
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1951
Place of death kassel