Gabriele Wülker

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Gabriele Wülker née Weymann (born July 16, 1911 in Frankfurt an der Oder ; † October 10, 2001 in Bonn ) was a German social scientist and state secretary.

Life and work

Wülker studied economic geography, anthropology, sociology and art history. In 1934 she belonged to a group of students in the medical department of the University of Halle , which made trips to the Batschka four summers in a row . The anthology with the results of the Grimm group emerged as the “Reichssiegerarbeit” from the Reich professional competition of the German students in 1936/37 in the category “ Race and Health Care”. Wülker contributed the chapters on settlement and economic development and the descendants tables to the anthology.

In 1937 she married Heinz Wülker , who was employed in the staff office of the Reichsbauernführer Walter Darré . Together with her husband, she researched the consequences of the urbanization of three farming villages in the immediate vicinity of Hanover , "above all the transfer of almost all of their descendants into urban social groups." The three villages were incorporated into Hanover in 1891 and were examined the period from 1740 to 1891. The methodological goal and the basis of Wülker's research were complete tables of descendants . Because of its extremely difficult data collection, this work marks an early research methodical high point of the work on social mobility . Gabriele Wülker's part in the work was the detailed sociological and economic-historical analysis of the villages, with which she received her doctorate in 1939 ; her husband completed his habilitation in 1940 with the population biology of the same three villages.

Heinz Wülker fell in 1943 as a first lieutenant in the reserve. There are three children from the marriage.

After her habilitation, Wülker was professor for social studies in developing countries at the Ruhr University in Bochum . After her retirement in 1978, she became chairman of the German Committee for UNICEF , of which she had been a member since 1970, and headed it until 1985. There she was particularly active against the high child mortality rate in developing countries and supported UNICEF programs in the slums of third parties World.

Public offices

From 1957 to 1959 Wülker was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Family and Youth Issues . She was the first woman in this state office.

Fonts

  • Peasantry on the edge of the big city. II. Population and economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries (Hainholz, Vahrenwald and List near Hanover) , Leipzig: S. Hirzel 1941 (= rural community 3)
  • with Werner Möhring , Europe and the German Refugees , 1952.
  • Problems of the sociological classification of foreign ethnic groups in the German Federal Republic , Cologne 1953.
  • In Asia and Africa , Kreuz-Verlag, 1962.
  • Togo - Tradition and Development , Klett Verlag, 1966.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ethnological studies in the German settlement area in the southern Slavic Batschka. Munich: JF Lehmanns Verlag 1938 (= Young Science 3)
  2. ^ Wülker, Heinz: peasantry on the edge of the big city. I. Population biology of the villages of Hainholz, Vahrenwald and List (Hanover). Leipzig: S. Hirzel 1940 (= rural community 1)
  3. ^ Fritz Lenz : Obituary for Heinz Wülker. Archive for Racial and Social Biology 37 (1943), pp. 275-276
personal data
SURNAME Wülker, Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weymann, Gabriele (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt Oder
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2001
Place of death Bonn