Gertrud Ferchland

Martha Liska Gertrud Ferchland (called Trude ) (born May 30, 1894 in Zurich ; † February 21, 1943 in Meseritz-Obrawald ) was a German architect and university professor in teacher training .

Life

Gertrud Ferchland was born out of wedlock in Switzerland because her parents Emil Ferchland, a student at the Technical University of Berlin , and Mathilde Böwe, a teacher in Berlin, kept the birth in Germany a secret because the teacher was still celibate . After the birth, Trude's parents married six months later. In 1896 the family moved to Leipzig, where Emil worked as a building inspector. Several moves followed until the family settled in the garden town of Hellerau near Dresden, founded in 1909 , a settlement project of the life reform movement . From 1913 she was one of the first women to study architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and graduated with a degree in engineering.

There she met her long-time friend and the future architect Lotte Cohn . From 1917 both women worked as architects in the reconstruction of East Prussia for some time . The friendship broke up after Lotte Cohn emigrated to Palestine in 1921 and Ferchland approached the National Socialist movement. In autumn 1923 she enrolled at the Dresden Technical University , general department. From 1923 to 1926 she learned the teaching profession there and then worked, first as a secretary, then as assistant to Richard Seyfert at the Pedagogical Institute of the TH Dresden. From 1930 onwards she was listed as a lecturer in the course catalogs, she was a member of the diploma examination committee for elementary school teachers , but the planned dissertation was not completed. Ferchland joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933, and the Nazi teachers ' association on September 1, 1933 . Around 1935 she stayed in Berlin to work on a commission on behalf of the Reich Ministry of Education to develop a new reading book for elementary schools. At the end of 1936 she moved from Dresden to Schneidemühl , where she first became a lecturer, then in 1938 as a professor at the College for Teacher Training and became a civil servant. She offered exercises on the methodology of German lessons as well as elective seminars on dialects and stories of Icelandic people. In 1941, when she was converted to a teacher training institute, she became a student councilor with the title of professor.

On February 12, 1943, Ferchland was apparently admitted to the Schneidemühl hospital after a nervous breakdown, and on February 15, 1943, she was certified as having mental illness . The transfer to the state sanatorium and nursing home Meseritz-Obrawalde was requested. No physical illnesses are noted in the certificate, only a reference to a stay in a sanatorium in the previous year due to restlessness. Another document speaks of depression .

On February 16, the admission took place in Meseritz-Obrawalde. The director of the teachers' training institute Schneidemühl, Gerhard Bergmann , wrote to the chief physician Theophil Mootz: “With the colleague, Professor Dipl.-Ing. Gertrud Ferchland ”, if it were a“ long suffering, but very, very valuable person ”. The chief physician should please “turn a special medical interest to her” and “send him a message about Ms. Ferchland's condition when the opportunity arises”. In a handwritten answer dated February 20, with the note “urgent”, it was stated that the patient's condition had “not yet improved”. On February 21, 1943, five days after being transferred to Obrawalde, she died - the cause of death stated was “exhaustion”.

Fonts

The rural reconstruction of East Prussia in the Deutsche Bauhütte in March 1920 . In: Deutsche Bauhütte (March 10, 1920), p. 52.
Popular high-level language. About German language lessons in elementary school , Hamburg 1935

literature

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. 267–268 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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Single receipts

↑ Helga Kippeler-Schrimpf: "Education is only possible on the basis of folklore." An investigation into Richard Seyfert's educational theory as an educational concept of the elementary school. LIT, Münster 2002.

personal data
SURNAME	Ferchland, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ferchland, Martha Liska Gertrud (full name); Ferchland, Trude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and university professor in teacher training
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	February 21, 1943
Place of death	Meseritz-Obrawalde

[1] Helga Kippeler-Schrimpf: "Education is only possible on the basis of folklore." An investigation into Richard Seyfert's educational theory as an educational concept of the elementary school. LIT, Münster 2002.