Hanna Glinzer

Hanna Emilie Glinzer (born February 23, 1874 in Hamburg ; † April 1, 1961 there ) was a German headmistress .

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A memorial stone for Hanna Glinzer in the women's garden

Hanna Glinzer was the daughter of a teacher for natural scientists who taught at a school for building and trade schools. Her mother was a former foster child of Emilie Wüstenfeld and directed a vocational school for girls that Wüstenfeld had set up. Hanna Glinzer attended a high school for girls, then took evening courses and passed the higher teacher examination in 1893. She then took on an apprenticeship at St. Pauli and taught on behalf of the Paulsenstiftschule. In 1896 she lived in France for a year , where she attended courses at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France and worked as an educator in a noble Norman family. Then she taught again at the Paulsenstiftschule. Glinzer completed a German and French course from 1901 to 1904 at the University of Berlin with the senior teacher examination. She belonged to the first generation of women who became senior teachers after completing their university studies. Then she attended the seminar of the Hamburg monastery school , where she passed the headmaster examination in 1906. In 1911 she took over as director of the Paulsenstiftschule from Anna Wohlwill .

As a school principal, Glinzer was involved in professional and women's politics. She took on leading positions in the Hamburg local groups of the ADLV and the ADF . Together with Gertrud Bäumer , she was a member of the newly founded teachers' council from 1918 as the elected representative of the senior teachers. Helene Lange recommended Glinzer, who was close to the DDP , to run for the Hamburg parliament . Since she wanted to work fully as a teacher, Glinzer rejected the proposal.

As headmistress, Glinzer continued the special form of the Paulsenstift. The institution, which was founded as a school for the poor as a result of the early bourgeois women's movement, employed exclusively female teachers and was in contrast to the state school for senior daughters. The school program provided for the gender-specific education of the female pupils. In 1910, Glinzer applied for the school to be recognized as a lyceum . She received permission, combined with the requirement to employ a third of male teachers in the future. Since this would have changed the character of the school, it only hired men for part-time apprenticeships. This enabled her to secure female dominance and the school's non-public status. Glinzer expanded the school into an upper secondary school in the 1920s, which enabled high school diplomas. She added a women's school to the facility in the second superstructure .

During the time of National Socialism , non-state schools such as the Paulsenstiftschule were no longer allowed to offer lessons in elementary and upper classes; A high school diploma was therefore no longer possible there. In order to avoid the collapse of the Paulsenstift, Glinzer applied for its nationalization in 1937. Since she did not want to commit to the National Socialist government, she handed over the management of the school to a successor who was loyal to the regime and retired early. In the following years, she harbored conscience doubts that she had left the students and teachers alone.

During the Second World War , the Paulsenstiftschule and Hanna Glinzer's apartment were destroyed by bombs. The pedagogue came back to Hamburg in 1949 and lived in a garden house assigned to her in Blankenese . She died on April 1, 1961. Her tombstone is in the women's garden at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

literature

• Inge Grolle : Glinzer, Hanna . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 104-105 .