Gertrud Schwend-Uexküll

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Gertrud Schwend-Üxküll.

Gertrud Schwend-Uexküll , b. Uexküll -Gyllenband (born May 17, 1867 in Dünamünde near Riga ; † January 15, 1901 in Stuttgart ) campaigned for women's education and was the founder of the "girls 'high school" in Stuttgart, the first girls' high school in Württemberg, today's Hölderling high school .

Life

Gertrud Baronesse Uexküll-Gyllenband was born on May 17, 1867 in the fortress of Dünamünde near Riga. Her father was the engineer officer Reinhold Baron von Uexküll, her mother Marie, geb. Boethlingk. Gertrud attended a girls 'school in Riga and passed the senior teacher examination at a boys' grammar school in Riga. Her mother died in 1881, her father died in 1890.

Gertrud traveled abroad and began studying art in Geneva , which she had to drop out due to a weak eye. She passed the high school for girls in Geneva and studied philosophy, history and literature at the University of Geneva . In Geneva she met her future husband Friedrich Schwend (1871-1934), who went to Stuttgart with her in 1898 . There she founded in 1899 with the support of her extensive cousin (10th degree), the palace lady of Queen Charlotte of Württemberg , Countess Olga von Uexküll-Gyllenband , the first girls' high school in Württemberg, the second in Germany. The first was founded in Karlsruhe . Gertrud Uexküll-Gyllenband took over the management of the grammar school and taught French. In the same year she married Friedrich Schwend, who taught geography at the grammar school. Gertrud Schwend-Uexküll was active in the women's movement and advocated women's access to education and especially to study.

In 1901 Gertrud Schwend-Uexküll died of the consequences of a serious heart defect. Leontine Hagmaier took over the management of the girls' high school .


Grave of Gertrud Schwend, Pragfriedhof Stuttgart

Web links

literature

  • Andrea Hähnle: When the daughters fledged. The Hölderling high school and the female reaching for the Abitur . In: Stuttgarter Frauenmuseum eV: Stuttgart for women. Discoveries past and present . Silberburg-Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, pp. 103-112.
  • Mascha Riepl-Schmidt : The first 40 years of the Hölderlin grammar school - once Württemberg's first “girls grammar school” . In: Monika Balzert (Red.): 100 years of the Hölderlin-Gymnasium-Stuttgart . Stuttgart 1999, pp. 21-47.
  • Jörg Kurz: Northern history (s). About the dwelling and life of the people in the north of Stuttgart. 2nd edition, Stuttgart 2005, pages 175-176.
  • Michael von Taube : The one from Uxkull. Genealogical history of the noble family of lords, barons and counts of Uxkull 1229–1929 , vol. 1. Verlag Julius Sittenfeld, Berlin 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/frauenstudium/daten/biographien/Biogramm_Gertrud-Schwend.pdf ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schwend-Uexküll, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uexküll-Gyllenband, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the girls' high school in Stuttgart
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Dünamünde near Riga
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1901
Place of death Stuttgart