Guide Diehl

Guida Diehl (born July 29, 1868 in Schischkin / Cherson Governorate ; † September 11, 1961 in Laurenburg ) was a German educator and founder of the Neulandbund .

Life

Guida Diehl was born in 1868 as the daughter of teacher Peter Diehl and a deaconess from Kaiserswerth in the German-speaking area of Odessa , Cherson Governorate. Due to the Russification laws , the family returned to Germany in 1870, where the father got a teaching position at a girls' college in Frankfurt (Main) . Diehl completed the teachers' seminar and passed her exam there in 1886. As a result, she worked at various schools in Frankfurt / Main and finally got a permanent job at an elementary school in 1893 . As the leader of a young girls 'association, she was a member of the "Conference of all leaders of young girls' associations in Frankfurt". She met the pastor Johannes Burckhardt , who offered her a job as a travel secretary. For this purpose she was given leave of absence for a few months in 1912 and worked in Berlin . In 1914 she was transferred to Rotenburg ad Fulda , at the end of that year she was given leave for a year and resumed her work in Berlin. In 1916 she founded the Neulandbund . In 1920 she moved her residence to Eisenach , from where she headed the Neulandbund with interruptions until the end of the 1950s. In 1959 she went to a retirement home in Laurenburg , where she died in 1961.

Act

In addition to her work as the founder and head of the right-wing conservative Neulandbund , Diehl was active in education for girls and young women. She opened a mothers' school in 1926 and directed a community assistant seminar from 1927 to 1938. She was a member of the DNVP from 1918 and a member of the NSDAP from 1930 .

Her book Redemption from Wirrwahn was positively discussed in the National Socialist monthly magazine in 1931 and her fight “against the mockery of the Christ personality” was praised, whereby she would show “the way to German Christianity”, which “wants to free itself from clerical power politics”.

In 1932 she became clerk for cultural and educational tasks in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP and in 1933 Reich clerk for religious questions of the Association of German Christians . At the same time she was the first cultural advisor for the National Socialist Women's Union . Her political career ended in late 1933 at the age of 65. As can be seen from Kürschner's German Literature Calendar from 1943, she was a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

She wrote various women's political and religious writings, most of which she published in the Neulandbund publishing house. In addition, she was editor of the magazine Neuland from 1916 to 1940 (from 1924 Neulandblatt ).

The term leisure, which is frequently used today as a term for holiday camps, for example, goes back to Guida Diehl.

Works (selection)

Help booklet for student circles to study the book by Wurster and Hennig: “What everyone must know about the Inner Mission today”. Association of Protestant Virgins' Associations in Germany, Berlin 1913, DNB 580837076 .

Holy flame, glow! Dedicated to Germany's female youth in the great war by Guida Diehl. Warneck, Berlin 1915, DNB 361409931 .

Holy flame, glow! Dedicated to Germany's female youth and their friends in the great war by Guida Diehl. 2., completely redesigned. Aufl. Evangelical Association for the Care of Female Youth in Germany, Berlin-Dahlem 1916, DNB 36140994X .
Holy flame, glow! A wake-up call to Germany's youth in bondage. 3rd, exp. Edition. With a second part: People in Need. Historical review of the last two decades by Max Gerlach . Neulandverlag, Eisenach 1928, DNB 578671867 .

Our Neulandbund. The history of its origins in essays from the first 1 1/2 years "Neuland". Burckhardthaus-Verlag, Berlin / Dahlem / Leipzig 1917, DNB 361409958 .

German women's will. L. Klotz, Gotha 1928, DNB 575465719 .

Relief from the chaos. Against Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff and her book “Redemption of Jesus Christ”. Neulandverlag, Eisenach 1931, DNB 57285286X .

The call of the turning point: Renewed Christianity (= series of publications by the Eisenacher Arbeitsringes. Paper 4). Neulandverlag, Eisenach 1932 , DNB 579646424 .

The German woman and National Socialism. Neulandverlag, Eisenach 1932, DNB 572852886 ; 2., slightly redesigned. Ed., 1933, DNB 572852894 .

Christians awake! Neulandverlag, Eisenach 1939, DNB 572852851 ; 1940 ² , DNB 572852843 .

To be a Christian means to be a fighter. The guidance of my life. Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 1959, DNB 450932141 .

literature

Hannelore Braun (Ed.): Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 (= Works on Contemporary Church History / Series A / Sources . Volume 12 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-525-55761-2 , pp. 59 (compiled and edited by Hannelore Braun and Gertraud Grünzinger).
City of Eisenach, Urania Culture and Education Association Gotha e. V. (Ed.): Eisenach personalities . A biographical lexicon. RhinoVerlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-932081-45-5 , p. 30 .
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : DIEHL, Guida. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1286–1289, last change: June 16, 2001. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive on 30. June 2007 archived memento, accessed June 28, 2016)
Manfred Berger : Diehl, guide. In: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work. Lambertus, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 138 ff.

Web links

Literature by and about Guida Diehl in the catalog of the German National Library
Carsten Dippel: Breaking new ground 100 years ago. Pioneer of National Socialism. In: Deutschlandfunk . Series of broadcasts day after day. June 28, 2016 ( mp3; 7:34 min ( memento from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )) (on G. Diehl, the Neulandbund and the lack of reappraisal in the GDR under Moritz Mitzenheim , the regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia and former lecturers at the "Neulandhaus" in Eisenach ).

Individual evidence

↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : DIEHL, Guida. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1286–1289, last change: June 16, 2001. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive on 30. Archived memento on June 6, 2007, accessed June 22, 2020) .
^ National Socialist Monthly Bulletins. Issue December 21, 1931, p. 46.
↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. 1943, p. 186.
↑ Hulda Zarnack: The history of the leisure time. In: Jugendweg. Journal of the young Protestant generation of women / Protestant Reich Association of Female Youth. Vol. 1, 1920, ZDB -ID 535769-X , p. 7.
↑ Cf. Paul Wurster , Martin Hennig : What everyone today needs to know about the Inner Mission. Max Kielmann, Stuttgart; Bookstore of the East German Youth Association, Berlin 1902, DNB 1003578470 (this edition used by Diehl); new through and increased edition. Salzer, Heilbronn 1914, DNB 361913028 .
↑ Cf. Mathilde Ludendorff von Kemnitz : Redemption of Jesus Christ. Ludendorffs Volkswarte-Verlag, Munich 1931, DNB 574916415 (at least eight reprints by 1967, several of them during the Nazi era ). - In addition to Diehl's reply, there were other critical answers from authors from politics, theology and Indology , e. For example by Albrecht von Graefe-Goldebee ( DNB 573525870 ), Karl Heinrich Rengstorf ( DNB 575787325 ) and Carl Anders Scharbau ( DNB 575972858 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Diehl, guide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educator and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 29, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Shishkin, Kherson Governorate
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1961
Place of death	Laurenburg

[1] Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : DIEHL, Guida. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1286–1289, last change: June 16, 2001. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive on 30. Archived memento on June 6, 2007, accessed June 22, 2020) .

[2] National Socialist Monthly Bulletins. Issue December 21, 1931, p. 46.

[3] Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. 1943, p. 186.

[4] Hulda Zarnack: The history of the leisure time. In: Jugendweg. Journal of the young Protestant generation of women / Protestant Reich Association of Female Youth. Vol. 1, 1920, ZDB -ID 535769-X , p. 7.

[5] Cf. Paul Wurster , Martin Hennig : What everyone today needs to know about the Inner Mission. Max Kielmann, Stuttgart; Bookstore of the East German Youth Association, Berlin 1902, DNB 1003578470 (this edition used by Diehl); new through and increased edition. Salzer, Heilbronn 1914, DNB 361913028 .

[6] Cf. Mathilde Ludendorff von Kemnitz : Redemption of Jesus Christ. Ludendorffs Volkswarte-Verlag, Munich 1931, DNB 574916415 (at least eight reprints by 1967, several of them during the Nazi era ). - In addition to Diehl's reply, there were other critical answers from authors from politics, theology and Indology , e. For example by Albrecht von Graefe-Goldebee ( DNB 573525870 ), Karl Heinrich Rengstorf ( DNB 575787325 ) and Carl Anders Scharbau ( DNB 575972858 ).