Gertrud Pappenheim

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Gertrud Margarethe Klara Pappenheim (born May 28, 1871 in Berlin ; † February 19, 1964 there ) was a German kindergarten teacher and Froebel teacher.

Live and act

Gertrud Margarethe Klara was the fourth child of Froebel pedagogue and classical philologist Eugen Pappenheim . The mother died in the year she was born. Her sister Anna Wiener-Pappenheim was also active in the Froebel movement, as was her brother Karl Pappenheim and her father's second wife, Anna Pappenheim, née. Cutter.

After attending the secondary school for girls , Gertrud Pappenheim completed the kindergarten teacher training at the seminar of the Berlin Froebel Association , which her father had been running since 1892. Then she worked in several kindergartens in Berlin. In 1902 she took over the editing of the renowned specialist magazine Kindergarten (which she held until 1924). She had written many specialist articles for kindergarten . As early as 1914 she commented on the Froebel-Montessori discussion and took the view:

The supporters of the Föbel and the Montessori method must and will henceforth go together, not only in an outward effort to achieve peaceful unification, but because they belong together by nature .

In 1902 Gertrud Pappenheim was elected to the board of the German Froebel Association . Eight years later she took over the management of the first state-recognized kindergarten teacher seminar in Prussia at the Kgl. Elisabeth School . After the National Socialists came to power, she had to resign from all her offices because of her Jewish relatives . Gertrud Pappenheim, who survived the Nazi dictatorship protected by friends, could never completely overcome this humiliation. After 1945 she was rarely involved in kindergarten and Froebel education.

Part of her estate is in the Ida-Seele archive .

Works (selection)

  • A Christmas present, in: Kindergarten 1902, pp. 284–286.
  • What is suitable as educational material for kindergarten ?, in: Kindergarten 1904, pp. 6-13.
  • A word for cutting out in kindergarten, in: Kindergarten 1905, pp. 235–236.
  • Child and World, Berlin 1909
  • Dr. Maria Montessori: Independent education in early childhood, in: Kindergarten 1914, pp. 74–75.
  • War kindergartens, in: Kindergarten 1914, pp. 260–263.
  • Cheap activity material, in: Kindergarten 1921, 281–283
  • Game and song, Leipzig 1927
  • Eugene Pappenheim. The career of an educator and confessor, in: Kindergarten 1931, pp. 91–98.

literature

  • Nelly Wolffheim : Memories of the Pappenheim sisters . In: Pages of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association 12, 1961, ISSN  0342-8141 , pp. 71-73.
  • Manfred Berger : Women in the history of kindergarten. A manual . Brandes and Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-86099-255-4 , ( Knowledge & Practice 55), pp. 151–156.
  • Gudrun Heller: Gertrud Pappenheim and Anna Wiener-Pappenheim. A life for the kindergarten and the pedagogy of Friedrich Fröbel, Munich 2002 (unpublished diploma thesis)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pappenheim 1914, p. 75
  2. ↑ Heller 2002, p. 123
personal data
SURNAME Pappenheim, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pappenheim, Gertrud Margarethe Klara (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German kindergarten teacher and Froebel teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1964
Place of death Berlin