Emilie Bendel

Anna Louise Emilie Bendel (born January 26, 1839 in Berne ; † November 14, 1915 in Bremen ) was a German educator , school founder and women's rights activist .

biography

Bendel was the daughter of a postmaster in Berne. She attended the private high school for girls of Dr. Steinhoff in Oldenburg and also lived in Oldenburg. She then worked in the school principal's house, got a job in a private school and continued her education with private lessons in English and French.

In 1861 she came to Bremen and was a private teacher with the shipowner D. H. Wätjen until 1964. From 1864 to 1865 she traveled to England and taught in London . In 1865 she taught at Miss Struckmann's school, one of the five girls' higher schools in Bremen. In 1866 she stayed in Paris . She passed her exams as a teacher for English, French and geography in 1866 and 1867 and worked from 1866 at the high school for girls run by Miss Albers and Mr. habenicht.

In 1870 Bendel opened his own school, which was located at Contrescarpe No. 120, then at Birkenstraße No. 21 and from 1872/73 on Schillerstraße No. 24 in Bremen-Mitte. This school initially had 18 students and in 1883 up to 200 students. In 1898 she handed over the management of the school to the pedagogue Anna Bartels. From 1893 to 1896 she also ran a cooking school, which was located at Am Wall No. 129 and which soon had to be expanded. In 1896 she was active with Felicie Gildemeister, Ottilie Hoffmann, Doris Focke and other women of the Bremen women's movement in the transformation of the Women's Acquisition and Training Association (FEAV) into a purely women's association and took on the functions of accounting and secretary in the association, the Lucy Lindhorn led. Her cooking school was affiliated with the women's trade association in 1897 and was now housed in the FEAV's club house in Pelzerstrasse in Bremen's old town. The information center for voluntary aid work was also founded by them in 1907.

In 1909, Bendel and Agnes Matthes became directors of the newly founded FEAV women's school , which received a state license in 1911, but was closed in 1915 in favor of a women's service school . The women's school with subjects such as economics, civic studies, English, art history, home economics, nutrition, home bookkeeping and cooking served as preparation for a subsequent professional training. It can be seen as the forerunner of the later social seminar .

Her secondary school for girls became a lyceum in 1912 , but had to close in 1923 as part of the nationalization of the Bremen school system .

Bendel was single and after finishing her teaching activity lived with various teachers on Grünenstrasse.

literature

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

Web links

• Biography at www.bremerfrauengeschichten.de