Emilie Stahl

Emilie Stahl , also Emily Stahl , called Minni Stahl , (born September 26, 1921 in Hallein ; † November 8, 2003 in Bremen ) was a German university professor and rector of the Bremen University of Social Education and Economics (HfSS).

biography

Family, education and work

Stahl was the daughter of Friedrich Kruse, a missionary in Togo and pastor, and of the teacher Emilie Kruse. She had four siblings.
The family lived in Styria from 1925 to 1935 . In 1935 the father became a pastor in Ahrensburg in Holstein . After primary school, she attended high school. She then studied psychology and taught at an elementary school for a time. In 1943 she worked in the educational counseling center in Poznan .
After escaping, she was interned in August 1945 and relocated to Austria. In Wels in Upper Austria , she was a teacher at the secondary school. In 1947 she received her doctorate as Dr. phil. with the dissertation character problem and character education .

In 1947 she became an employee of a German aid community as a carer for the children and young people and the kindergartens in the communal housing complex in Hamburg . In 1948 she received a teaching position for psychology at the Pedagogical Institute in Weilburg . In 1949 she studied for a few months in the Child Study Program in Maryland (USA). Then she was at the Pedagogical Institute in Seeheim-Jugenheim in Hessen. In February 1952 she passed the first state examination as a teacher there. At the same time, she was an employee of the Education Service Center (later a branch of the Hessian Teacher Training Center). In 1951 she became chairwoman of the state working group for educational counseling in Hesse. From 1953 to 1957 she headed the educational counseling center in Wiesbaden .

She married the deputy head of the Hessian state youth welfare office and later (1962–1985) Bremen Senate Director Günter Stahl (SPD); both were childless. In 1957 they both moved to Bremen because her husband was the head of the youth welfare office there. In 1958 she became chairwoman of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association , which had its office in Bremen from 1962.

In 1959, Stahl was the founding director of the Bremen technical college for social professions . Under her leadership, it became the Social Academy in 1968 and in 1970 the University of Social Education and Social Economics , which then became part of the University of Bremen in 1982 as the Faculty of Social Sciences (today in the Faculty of Social Sciences ). She retired in 1987.

Nationwide activities

From 1970 she was the first woman in the German Education Council, which was founded in 1966, and as an expert in preschool education, she advocated social recognition of the teaching profession. At a conference of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, she spoke out in her report against starting school at the age of five and in favor of three-year training for educators at technical schools with a subsequent two-year internship and four-year training for social pedagogues at higher technical schools.
She was a member of a committee for special education which made proposals for the common education of disabled and non-disabled children.

The Federal Government's 2nd Family Report of 1974 on the subject of families and socialization - benefits and performance limits with regard to the upbringing and educational process of the young generation was drawn up by an eight-person expert commission to which they belonged.

Honors

• The Emilie Stahl Prize in Bremen was named after her.

Works

• On the situation of pre-school education . Writings of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association, 1968

Literature, sources

• Edith Laudowicz : Stahl, Emilie, called Minni, geb. Kruse . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .