Elisabeth Schulz (pedagogue)

Elisabeth Maria Martha Anna Schulz (born May 18, 1903 in Concepción ; † March 24, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German high school councilor .

Live and act

Elisabeth Schulz was born in Chile , where her father was the pastor of the German School in Concepción. In 1906 the family returned to Germany. After attending elementary school in Langengraussa (Merseburg administrative district) from 1909 to 1911, she switched to the upper elementary school in Luckau from 1912 to 1916 . She then attended a Lyceum in Berlin-Pankow from 1916 to 1919 , then from 1920 to 1922 Oberlyzeen in Hermannswerder and Potsdam . After graduating in Potsdam, she attended a seminar class there until 1923, which she completed with a teaching permit for high schools. In March she passed the final examination of a humanistic grammar school.

From 1923 to 1928 Schulz studied Protestant theology, German language and literature and history at universities in Leipzig , Tübingen , Münster and Hamburg. The youth movement and their teacher Karl Barth , who showed her special appreciation, had a strong influence on her. Schulz has been very pious since school when she attended girls' Bible study groups. During her studies she joined the German Christian Association of Student Women. After the first theological examination in Münster in 1927, she passed the state examinations for teaching German, history and religion at secondary schools in 1929/30. She spent her legal clerkship at the Helene-Lange-Schule , directed by Emmy Beckmann .

In 1930 Schulz got her first job as an assistant teacher at the Elise-Averdieck-Schule, where she was promoted to teaching post in 1940. After moving to the secondary school for girls in the Alstertal in 1943, she headed the Elise Averdieck School for some time in 1944. During the time of National Socialism she did not join the NSDAP , but in the National Socialist People's Welfare , the NSLB and the Reich Colonial Association .

After the end of the Second World War , Schulz worked at the secondary school for girls at Lerchenfeld (today Lerchenfeld grammar school ), since September 1945 as its acting director and from 1947 as senior director. According to sources, she was able to rebuild the educational institution "full of energy and energy" both internally and externally. In the history of the school she is considered to be particularly noteworthy, collegial and Christian headmistress.

Schulz left the girls' school at Easter 1955 and worked until the end of his life as a high school councilor for the scientific high schools for girls at the Hamburg school authorities. She died a good year later from cancer.

Volunteering

In addition to his pedagogical work, Schulz volunteered in the church and chaired the Lukas Church in Fuhlsbüttel . She maintained close contacts with Volkmar Herntrich , who praised her moral courage. From 1946 she belonged to the synod and was the first and only female person in the regional church council to take over the women's work and school department. In 1947 she was able to convince Karl Barth to hold a service in Fuhlsbüttel, for which she criticized Bishop Simon Schöffel harshly.

Schulz was a member of the church council of the church college in Hamburg . From the summer semester of 1949 to the winter semester, she taught catechetics there as a part-time lecturer.

literature

• Rainer Hering: Schulz, Elisabeth . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 303-304 .