Gerta Krabbel

Gerta Marie Julie Krabbel (born March 23, 1881 in Witten ; † March 10, 1961 in Aachen ) was a German historian and writer of Christian literature.

family

Gerta Krabbel grew up in a strictly Catholic family and was the daughter of the Aachen physician and medical adviser Heinrich Krabbel (1850-1918), chief physician of the surgical department of the Maria-Hilf Hospital in Aachen, and Emile, née Greve from Bochum (1858-1926 ). Her brother Max Crawling followed, among others, as a surgeon for his father by the above-mentioned position of principal physician and was a vehement representatives of eugenics . Her younger sister Emilie (Niny), married Imdahl (1889–1969), was also organized in church and women's associations and was an honorary member of the International Bruckner Society . She was also the mother of the later art historian Max Imdahl .

Live and act

Gerta Krabbel completed her Abitur in 1909 at the St. Ursula Gymnasium in Aachen as part of the “first Abiturientia” for girls in Aachen. She then studied history, philosophy and German at the universities of Bonn , Münster (Westphalia) and Freiburg im Breisgau . In Münster she founded the student association "Winifreda" and later joined the Catholic German Women's Association (KDF).

On March 6, 1914 , Gerta Krabbel received her doctorate in history from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. From 1918 to 1926 she was acquired as a teacher at the Social Women's School in Aachen, originally from the Catholic German Women's Federation in Cologne was founded and a department in Aachen formed from, in turn, the nucleus of the later Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia was . Here Greta Krabbel met the women's rights activist Helene Weber again, whom she already knew from their KDF times and who ran the school until 1920. Through these various contacts and her dedication , it was found that crawling was elected 1926-1952 for national chairman, then the honorary chairman of this association. Krabbel published several writings on Christian topics and important women of history and was editor of the monthly magazine "Die Christliche Frau" of the KDF.

For her services, Gerta Krabbel was awarded the Order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class . Gerta Krabbel found her final resting place in the family grave in Aachen's Westfriedhof .

Fonts (selection)

• Paul Skalic  : a picture of life from the 16th century . Dissertation, Münster: Borgmeyer 1915
• Festgabe for Ludwig Schmitz-Kallenberg on June 10, 1927 , together with Johannes Bauermann , Franz Flaskamp , Bernhard Vollmer ; Regensberg, Münster 1927
• Caritas Pirckheimer  : A Life Picture , Aschendorff, Münster 1940
• Adoration of the Virgin Mary in Germany , Christopherus-Verlag, Munich-Freiburg 1941
• Mother and son: From the Confessions of St. Augustine , Regensberg, Münster in Westphalia 1946
• Blessed are the guardians of peace: Catholic German women from the past 100 years , Regensberg, Münster 1949
• Lioba von Tauberbischofsheim  : Early Christian women's work in Germany , Regensberg, Münster 1953
• Saint Gertrude the Great  : In her memory 500 years after her death , More-Verlag, Berlin 1953
• For Christ's Sake: Thoughts of the Church Fathers on Virginity , Regensberg, Münster 1959

literature

• Stefan Fuchs: "From the blessing of war": Catholic educated people in the First World War: a study on the interpretation of war in academic Catholicism , Franz Steiner-Verlag 2004 ( digitalized )
• Paul Jansen: Gerta Krabbel (1881–1961): Federal Chairwoman of the Catholic German Women's Association , in: Christians between Niederrhein and Eifel , Aachen 1993, pp. 9–25

Web links

• Portrait in Senio-Magazin Aachen from May / June 2016, p. 32
• Short biography on the website of the Federal Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death note with obituary Heinrich Krabbel
2. ↑ Death note Emilie Imdahl
3. ↑ 100 years ago girls' first high school graduation in Aachen, short biography on the website of the Aachen History Association