Erika Janensch
Erika Janensch (born June 15, 1891 in Bad Harzburg , † October 30, 1961 in Kirchzarten ) was a German kindergarten teacher, youth leader, welfare worker and seminar leader.
Life
Erika Johanna Janensch grew up in a middle-class family in Berlin. Her father, privy councilor Hans Walther Janensch, was royal. Government architect, the mother, Johanna Auguste Janensch b. Vocke, was responsible for the household and the upbringing of her two daughters. The friends of the family included u. a. Adolf von Harnack , Friedrich Naumann , Theodor Heuss and his wife Elly Heuss-Knapp . Through Anna von Gierke , who was also friends with the family, she came into contact with voluntary social work. It was also the latter who encouraged Janensch to train as a kindergarten teacher and youth leader. She also attended the women's social school , which was founded and directed by Alice Salomon , with whom Janensch was in contact throughout her life. She then worked as a school caretaker in Berlin-Charlottenburg and at the same time taught at the seminar for kindergarten teachers and after-school care workers in the youth home . After the First World War, she took over the construction of a youth welfare office in Guben . In 1924 Janensch was given responsibility for the kindergarten teachers' seminar of the Lutherstift Diakonissenhaus in Frankfurt an der Oder , which was taken over by the city in 1938. With the school year 1938/39, a women's school for people's care was to be attached to the seminar , which Janensch was to take over. So far it has not been possible to clarify whether the planned training facility was actually built. After fleeing and being expelled, she was given the task of preparing the material plans for Christian instruction at kindergarten teachers' seminars on behalf of the Westphalian regional church. In 1947 Janensch took over the preparation for the opening of an Ev. Kindergarten seminar for women in Hamburg-Barmbeck, against the establishment of which all kinds of resistance arose. A year later she was given the management of the Ev. Kindergarten teachers' seminars with boarding school and a teaching kindergarten in Freiburg / Brsg. In 1958 Janensch retired.
Works (selection)
- Report on the conference of the German Froebel Association in Bremen, in: Christliche Kinderpflege 1925, pp. 221–223
- Froebel's idea of mother education in our current training facilities, in: Kindergarten 1927, pp. 228–232
- On the history of women's education, Breslau 1933
- Day care centers as sidings in modern society, in: Evangelische Kinderpflege 1954, pp. 25–29
literature
- Evangelical Church of Baden (Ed.): Erika Janensch on memory, o. O, o. J.
- Evangelisches Stift Freiburg (Ed.): 125 years of Evangelisches Stift Freiburg im Breisgau 1859–1984, Freiburg 1984, pp. 49–90
- Peter Reinicke: The training centers for social work in Germany 1899–1945, Berlin 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Reinicke 2012, p. 238
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janensch, Erika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German kindergarten teacher, youth leader, welfare worker and seminar leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Harzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1961 |
| Place of death | Kirchzarten |