Gertrud Schröder-Lembke

Gertrud Schröder-Lembke (born September 15, 1908 in Malchow on Poel as Gertrud Minna Charlotte Lembke ; † October 6, 2006 in Goslar ) was a German agricultural historian who did research on Johann Heinrich von Thünen , among others . She was one of the first female habilitation students at the University of Rostock .

Life

Gertrud Schröder-Lembke was born in 1908 as the daughter of Hans Lembke and his wife Luise in Malchow on Poel. She had a sister and two brothers. Her father was a successful farmer and from 1946 to 1958 professor of plant breeding at the University of Rostock. From 1921 to 1924 Schröder-Lembke attended the Lyceum in Wismar, followed by training in home economics, after which she moved to the Oberlyzeum in Rostock in 1927. In 1933 Schröder-Lembke enrolled at the University of Rostock for philosophy. Before that, she attended universities in Freiburg , Vienna and Berlin , where she studied history, German and English. She received her doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty in 1935 , the subject of her work was "The development of rural conditions on the island of Poel from the 12th century to 1803". From 1936 to 1939 this was followed by a job as a volunteer and research assistant in the Rostock city archive. In 1939, Schröder-Lembke married the Germanist Walter Johannes Schröder (1910–1984) , who later became a lecturer for older German and Low German philology at the University of Rostock. The couple had a son. Schröder-Lembke worked from 1946 to 1949 as an employee in the Thünen archive of the University of Rostock and in 1949 switched to a position as scientific secretary of the Historical Institute of the University of Rostock. In the winter semester of 1949/50 she received a teaching position for agricultural history. 1951 habilitated they became only the second woman in the University of Rostock at the Faculty of Agriculture with the theme: "The introduction of Kleebaues in Germany before the occurrence Schubart of the clover field." After the unsuccessful attempt to establish a chair for agricultural history, Schröder-Lembke followed her husband to Frankfurt / Main in 1953 .

Publications

• Heinrich von Thünen and his Mecklenburg neighbors. In: Journal of Agricultural History and Agricultural Sociology. Volume 2, DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1954, pp. 54-62.
• The introduction of Kleebau in Germany before Schubart von dem Kleefelde appeared. Berlin 1954.
• Changes in the land division and crop rotation of the Rhine-Main area in the late Middle Ages. Extended version of the lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of the Rural People and Agriculture on May 10, 1957 in Bad Munster am Stein. Mainz 1957.
• with Martin Grosser: Instructions for Agriculture - two early German agricultural publications. Stuttgart 1965.
• Malchow on Poel: history of a farm. Hohenlieth near Eckernförde, Frankfurt am Main 1978.
• Agricultural history studies. Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-437-50234-4 .
• Lembke, Hans. In: New German Biography. 14 (1985), p. 185. (digitized version)
• The pea as an arable crop in older German agriculture. Gelsenkirchen-Buer 1985.
• Forest destruction and forest renewal in Germany in the pre-industrial era. In: Journal of Agricultural History and Agricultural Sociology. 35 (1987), 2, pp. 120-137, ISSN  0044-2194
• Carl Pogge and his sons - a contribution to Mecklenburg's agricultural history in the first half of the 19th century. Holtsee 1992.
• with Joachim Saegebarth and Heinrich Baudis: Insel Poel, articles on landscape and history. Wismar 2007.

literature

• Rolf-Peter Bartz, Angela Ziegler: In memoriam: Dr. habil. Gertrud Schröder-Lembke (1908-2006). In: Thünen yearbook. Volume 2, 2007, pp. 121-129.
• Marianne Beese: Research on the women's movement and on women's studies in Rostock. In: Kersten Krüger (Hrsg.): Women's studies in Rostock. Reports by and about female academics (= Rostock studies on university history. Volume 9). University of Rostock, Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-86009-089-3 , pp. 9–40 (digitized version )
• Marianne Beese: Women's studies in Rostock from 1909/10 to 1945. Outlook to 1952. In: Gisela Boeck, Hans-Uwe Lammel (Ed.): Women in Science (= Rostock studies on university history. Volume 16). University of Rostock, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-86009-115-9 , pp. 189–205 (digitized version )

Web links

• Gertrud Schröder-Lembke in the Rostock matriculation portal
• Gertrud Schröder-Lembke on the Thünen portal