Elisabeth Segelken

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Elisabeth Segelken (born February 19, 1888 in Bremen - Grambke ; † October 30, 1965 in Bremen) was a German educator and writer.

biography

Segelken was the daughter of the teacher and later headmaster in Schwachhausen Christian Segelken from Grambke and Mathilde Segelken, née. Christoffer. After attending school, she attended Johann August Martin Janson's seminar for teachers ; Agnes Heineken was one of her teachers. After that she was an assistant teacher for three years and then a teacher at the school at the Holzhafen in Bremen. In 1913, for health reasons, she was transferred to the Horner Country School on Berckstrasse, where she was the first female teacher to teach. Until 1953 she taught at this school for 40 years with a certain rigor and the necessary respect.

In 1943 she taught Bremen children in Sulingen during World War II , and in 1945 she accompanied and looked after pupils in the Saxony receiving region and on their way back to Bremen. In 1946 she resumed classes at the school in Horn .

After the war, she processed her experiences in her books and poems.
She was buried in the Riensberg cemetery .

Honors

The Elizabeth-Segelken Street in Bremen Horn-Lehe district Lehesterdeich, was named after her.

Works

  • From the children's area of ​​a woman from Bremen , 1952
  • Clouds passing by , 1954
  • A trip into the past , 1956
  • Stories from old Schwachhausen , 1959
  • Memories of an old teacher , 1961
  • Little stories from the turn of the century
  • Poems like the school guard as a description of the bombing nights in the school

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