Gertrud Hermes

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Gertrud Antonie Hermes (* September 1872 in Berlin ; † January 26, 1942 there ) was a German educator and adult education center founder, who dealt both practically and theoretically with youth and workers' education.

Life

Gertrud Hermes grew up as the last of seven children of the senior consistorial councilor (and later president) in the Evangelical Oberkirchenrat , Ottomar Hermes , in a typical Prussian civil servant family and began training as a teacher in 1890. A strike of the Berlin clothing workers in 1896, which left a lasting impression, led them to occupy themselves with questions of workers' education. But first she became a teacher at a secondary school for girls in Berlin (1900-1908). After a serious illness, she joined the union of homeworkers in Berlin in 1909, where she was in charge of a pay office from 1909 to 1912. 1912–1914 Max Sering attended economics seminars .

At that time she came to the realization that a Christian union could not be the appropriate form of social struggle for urban workers.

In 1921 Hermes led the first women's course in Drei 30acker . The participant-oriented event offered classes in the subjects of economics, sociology, politics, philosophy, religion and art. In 1922 she became a subject librarian in the Leipzig library. Shortly afterwards she became “ Hermann Heller's employee and thus an important personality in the Leipzig direction ”. From 1923 she founded several adult education centers in Leipzig. As an economics lecturer, she became the first traveling teacher employed by the Thuringian Adult Education Center.

Hermes was friends with Adolf Reichwein and Gustav Radbruch .

In 1927 she took part in the Hohenroden Talks .

Gertrud Hermes was on the list of banned authors during the Nazi era .

Fonts

  • The intellectual figure of the Marxist worker and the question of worker education . Tübingen JCB Mohr (P. Siebeck) 1926
  • Red flag in need . Jena 1929

literature

  • Dorothea Flaig: Gertrud Hermes: Life and work of an adult educator . Oldenburg: Until. 1998 ISBN 3-8142-0642-8
  • Hohenrodter Bund: Conference Reports Volume 1. 1923–1927. Stuttgart: Silberburg. 1928
  • Bettina Irina Reimers: The New Direction of Adult Education in Thuringia 1919-1933 . - Food: plain text. 2003. ISBN 3-89861-237-6
  • Biographical Lexicon of Socialism Volume I Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GMBH Hannover P. 124, 125

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Founded in 1900. Joined the general association of Christian trade unions in 1902 as the only pure women's organization besides that of domestic workers ( http://library.fes.de/cgi-bin/ihg2pdf.pl?vol=1&f=726&l=727 )
  2. ↑ Flaig 1998, p. 32f
  3. ↑ See Eduard Weitsch
  4. ↑ Reimers 2003, p. 96
  5. ↑ Flaig 1998, p. 14
  6. ↑ Reimers 2003, p. 264
  7. ^ Hohenrodter Bund: Conference Reports Volume 1. 1923–1927.
personal data
SURNAME Hermes, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermes, Gertrud Antonie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and adult education center founder
DATE OF BIRTH September 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1942
Place of death Berlin