Ermentrude baker von Ranke

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Lucia Amalie Ermentrude Therese Amanda Baker von Ranke (born November 21, 1892 in Görlitz , † April 27, 1931 in Cologne ) was a German historian and university lecturer. She was the first female historian to qualify as a professor in Germany.

The daughter of the Prussian general Friedhelm von Ranke and granddaughter of the historian Leopold von Ranke began her training at a teacher training college after school. Then she studied history and received her doctorate in Halle (Saale) in 1915 on The Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt at the beginning of the 18th century . From 1918 to 1921 she worked as a volunteer in the Cologne City Archives . In 1922 she completed her habilitation in Cologne on Cologne's trade relations in the early modern period. She was the first woman in Germany to complete her habilitation and had to prevail against the opposition of many conservative forces. Justus Hashagen , who had previously headed the archive, was probably behind her application . She also had contact with the women's education reformer Mathilde von Mevissen .

In 1921/22 she was a research assistant for Middle and Modern History at the University of Cologne and from 1923 private lecturer . In 1926 she was appointed professor at the newly founded Pedagogical Academy in Kiel . From 1926 to 1929 she also taught as a private lecturer at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . 1929–1931 she taught as a professor of history and its didactics at the Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund , where her husband was also appointed. She represented a pluralistic historical pedagogy and supported the Weimar Republic .

In 1928 she married the philosopher Hermann Rudolf Bäcker . She died in 1931, giving birth to her second child.

Fonts

  • The Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt at the beginning of the 18th century: The land dispute against the princely arbitrariness before the Reichskammergericht and Reichshof , Halle 1915 [= dissertation]
  • Cologne women's work then and now , 1922
  • The Hanseatic Cologne and its heyday. Friesen-Verlag, Bremen 1925 [= habilitation thesis]
  • The educational value of history teaching , in: Communications of the Pedagogical Academies in Prussia, 1st issue, pp. 84–92
  • Coercion and freedom as a state-social problem of the present and its historical roots , in: Journal for the history of education and teaching 20, pp. 35–53

literature

  • Paletschek, Sylvia: Ermentrude and her sisters. The first habilitation women historians in Germany , in: Political Society History in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festgabe for Barbara Vogel , ed. by Henning Albrecht u. a., Hamburg 2006, pp. 175–187. ( PDF file; 1.4 MB )
  • Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 151–152 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Syvia Paletschek: The history of the historians. on the relationship between historiography history and gender . In: Freiburg women's studies . tape 20 , 2007, p. 27-49 .
personal data
SURNAME Baker von Ranke, Ermentrude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baker von Ranke, Lucia Amalie Ermentrude Therese Amanda (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1931
Place of death Cologne