Elisabeth Schwander

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Schwander in 2000
Elisabeth Schwander (1985)

Elisabeth Schwander (born April 25, 1917 in Bad Säckingen ; † May 20, 2001 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was the founder of the village helpers' organization in Sölden near Freiburg and a pioneer of the German rural women movement.

Life

Elisabeth Schwander became, after several positions in social church institutions, in 1949 rural women consultant at the Catholic German Women's Association in the Archdiocese of Freiburg . In this function, she founded the first village helpers' organization in 1954 and a special school for training village helpers (Dorfhelferinnenschule). Schwander was the ninth of ten children of the farmer Theodor Schwander, and his second wife Bertha Luise, in Säckingen (Waldshut district).

Act

The profession of village helper emerged after the Second World War due to the emergency situations in the farming families. Through her work as a rural women consultant, Elisabeth Schwander recognized the structural change in agriculture and its effects on families. With the motivation “Help for women farmers in the event of illness and the creation of training opportunities for girls from the countryside”, she founded the first village helpers 'school and the village helpers' work in Sölden near Freiburg im Breisgau in 1954 . Schwander had managed the facility until retirement in 1981. For a long time Sölden was the largest village aid organization in the German-speaking area.

As a result, many village helpers' organizations and training centers were also founded in other federal states by various organizations. The profession of “ village helper ” was further established through training ordinances of the federal states . From 1954 to 2001, 1,130 women completed vocational training as village helpers in Sölden. Today, however, they only do 15 percent of their work on farms. The Dorfhelferinnenwerk Sölden is (as of 2003) with 100 stations and over 300 employees the largest provider of family care in rural areas in Baden. Until 2001, the helpers were also trained in Sölden, after the village helpers school there closed, the young professionals now come mainly from the Academy for Agriculture and Housekeeping in Kupferzell (Hohenlohekreis / Northern Württemberg) and from the Freiburg family care school (source: Badische Zeitung of September 16, 2014)

After training as a kindergarten teacher in 1939 and 1940, Elisabeth Schwander initially completed a (shortened) degree as a pastoral assistant. Today corresponds to the subject of religious education - at that time this was the only possible church study for Catholic women who wanted to study theology. After working for two years in the Catholic parish office of Emmendingen (1940–1942), she was imprisoned for three months in a Gestapo prison in Freiburg for activities that were critical of the Nazi regime and was subsequently expelled from the country. Between June 1943 and the end of the war in 1945 she was drafted as a helper on the Western Front - before she returned to youth work in Freiburg from September 1945, and from 1949 became a rural woman's advisor in the entire diocese.

Awards

Works

  • The history of the village helper profession, Dorfhelferinnenwerk Sölden, 1987.
  • Sheets on professional studies: Dorfhelferin Bertelsmann, Federal Employment Agency, 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The History of Vocational Training in Social Work: In Search of Professionalization and Identity by Ralph Christian Amthor
  2. ^ Social professions: village helpers .
  3. ↑ Dorfhelferinnenwerk Sölden - great helpers . Article in the Badische Zeitung of November 28, 2003. Accessed September 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ Dorfhelferinnenwerk in Sölden is celebrating its 60th birthday . Article in the Badische Zeitung from September 16, 2014.
  5. ↑ Bonus team was switched off . Article in the Badische Zeitung from June 25, 2013.
  6. ^ Directory of authorities and schools in Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved September 15, 2013
  7. ↑ Article in the Badische Zeitung on May 7, 2020 [1]
  8. ^ Special issue of the Söldener Bote, 56 pages. Publisher: Dorfhelferinnenwerk Sölden
  9. ^ Sheets on vocational studies: Dorfhelfer / Dorfhelferin
personal data
SURNAME Schwander, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder of the German village helpers and thought leader of the rural women movement
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Säckingen
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2001
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau