Elise von Hopffgarten

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Elise Hermine von Hopffgarten , née Hennoch (born January 29, 1869 in Altenburg , † after 1937 ) was a German author and founder of the German Scout Association for young girls . She was part of Hedwig Heyl's group of employees .

Life

Elise Hennoch was married to the lawyer and government assistant Louis Rudolf Kurt von Hopffgarten († 1894) since 1892.

Von Hopffgarten, who was one of Hedwig Heyl's close circle of friends, worked with Hedwig Heyl at the Lyceum Club Berlin from 1906 .

On January 14, 1912, at the suggestion of Maximilian Bayer, the German Boy Scout Association for young girls was founded, in which several groups of girl scouts that had been formed since 1908 joined forces, some of which had previously belonged to different migrant bird associations . Von Hopffgarten was elected first chairman at the meeting in Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus and held this position until 1922. In this function she was the editor of the club magazine and made numerous lecture tours through the German Reich to promote the German Boy Scout Association for young girls . In mid-1914 the federal government had 6,200 members. From 1915 she was in charge of the federal “war garden”, where children were taught and cared for in horticulture.

In her boy scout book for young girls , published in 1912 , she presented the basics of a contemporary upbringing of girls that was based on the boy scout method and went far beyond the gender roles of the time. The book contains numerous references to the German women's movement around Hedwig Heyl.

Publications

  • Elise von Hopffgarten: Boy Scout Book for Young Girls: a stimulating, practical guide for the growing, forward-striving female youth . Reprint of the 1912 edition. Deutscher Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 1991. ISBN 3-88778-169-4
  • Elise von Hopffgarten: A German Boy Scout Association for Young Girls - Organization. Scout Publishing House Otto Gmelin, Munich 1912/13
  • Elise von Hopffgarten (ed.): Hedwig Heyl. A commemorative sheet for her 70th birthday on May 5th, 1920 from her colleagues and friends . Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1920

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History of the BdP: names, facts, backgrounds. Archived from the original on May 5, 2008 ; Retrieved July 8, 2016 .
  2. ^ An essay by Hopffgartens appeared in 1937 in Wilhelm Greiner: The culture of Thuringia: A German tribal achievement . Engelhard-Reyher, Gotha 1937, p. 227 f.
  3. ↑ a b c Meinolf Nitsch: Private charities in the German Empire . De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016154-0 , pp. 219 .
  4. ^ Gerd Röpke: The big game. Origins and history of the Association of Scouts and Scouts (BdP). 2006, p. 22 , accessed July 8, 2016 .
  5. ^ A b Jeff Bowersox: Raising Germans in the Age of Empire . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-964109-3 , pp. 182 ff .
  6. ^ Gerd Röpke: The big game. Origins and history of the Association of Scouts and Scouts (BdP). 2006, p. 47 , accessed July 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Hopffgarten, Elise von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hopffgarten, Elise Hermine von; Hennoch, Elise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the German Scout Association for young girls
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1937