Elisabeth Lürssen

Elisabeth Lürssen (born September 18, 1880 in Delmenhorst ; † April 22, 1972 in Bremen ) was a German educator and politician ( DVP , BDV , FDP ) in Bremen.

biography

education and profession

Lürssen was the daughter of the manufacturer Carl Hinrich Lürssen from Delmenhorst. She attended a teacher training institute and in 1899 taught at the higher girls' school in Bad Harzburg . Then she graduated from high school in 1909 and studied German, history and French at the University of Göttingen , the University of Munich and the University of Leipzig until 1916 . She did her PhD in Dr. phil.

During the First World War she worked as a teacher and from 1918 for the German civil administration in occupied Belgium. After the war in 1919 she was a senior teacher and then a teacher at the Kippenberg School .

During the Kinderlandverschickung (KLV) in World War II , she was in charge of the Kippenberg School from 1943 onwards, and classes continued in other buildings after the school building was destroyed in 1944. Even after the war, she remained the headmistress until she retired in 1949.

politics

In 1919 she joined the German People's Party (DVP). From 1920 to 1933 she was a member of the Bremen citizenship for the DVP and from 1927 for the Bremische Arbeitsgemeinschaft and she was u. a. active in the school deputation . She ran several times in vain for the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic .

In 1933, with the beginning of the National Socialist era , her political work ended, but she remained a teacher, but was not allowed to teach history in her subject.

In 1945 Lürssen was a co-founder of the Bremen Democratic People's Party (BDV), which was absorbed into the FDP in 1951. From 1947 to 1951 she was again a member of the Bremen citizenship in the second electoral period. Her work in the deputation focused on school reform and questions of co-education .

Further memberships

In the 1920s she was a member of the Federation of German Women's Associations and the German Association of Women Academics . In the series of sources on the women's movement , she published a booklet on The Women of Absolutism .

After the war she headed the civic working group of the German Women's Ring , was a co-founder of the Bremen Women's Committee as part of the Bremen women's movement and chairwoman of the Bremen Association of Women Philologists . She was also the chairwoman of the German Association of Women Academics from 1956 to 1958 . From 1959 to 1969 she was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

Her sister was the teacher and, most recently, high school councilor Johanna Lürssen .

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Elisabeth Hannover-Drück : Lürssen, Elisabeth . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .