Hanna Meuter

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Hanna Alma Josefa Carola Meuter (born January 30, 1889 in Düsseldorf , † April 6, 1964 in Lobberich ) was a German sociologist , lecturer and writer.

Life

Hanna Meuter was the daughter of the senior postal assistant Karl Meuter and his wife Klara, née Oertel. In 1909, at the age of twenty, she became a teacher at the Evangelical Higher Girls' School in Cologne-Kalk . When the legal prerequisites for giving women access to university studies had been created in Prussia , she passed her Abitur in 1914 and studied mathematics, physics, chemistry, meteorology, sociology, psychology, pedagogy and sociology at the universities of Bonn and Cologne , where she passed the first state examination in 1918 . She then headed the Evangelical Higher Girls' School in Cologne-Kalk and was the first woman to become a high school director in Germany .

From 1921 on she was a lecturer at the library school and the adult education center Cologne while studying sociology at the University of Cologne , where in 1924 at Leopold von Wiese Dr. phil. obtained a doctorate , thus one of the first sociologists to receive a doctorate. Since 1923 she was the only woman who worked for the Cologne quarterly sociology issue, which was published by von Wiese.

At the 6th Sociologists' Day in Vienna in 1926 , she gave one of the main presentations on the basis of her habilitation thesis on the sociology of ascent and failure so successfully that she was considered the first female professor of sociology. But her application for a habilitation was rejected in the male-dominated university. a. because as a woman she was still denied academic competence.

She then worked as a librarian in the Cologne University and City Library . In 1933 she was dismissed from service by the National Socialists because of political unreliability . In 1938 she published a fundamental sociological work on “Responsibility”, which, however, appeared outside of Germany in a series of which von Wiese had also been an author.

After the end of the National Socialist dictatorship, she was since 1945 under the government president in the then Aachen administrative district , Ludwig Lude , as senior government councilor for welfare. However, she retired early in 1948 as a result of a fall. She spent her twilight years at Ingenhoven Castle in Lobberich.

Hanna Meuter was also a co-founder of the first German School of Journalism in Aachen in 1945 and was one of the re-founders of the German Society for Sociology in 1946 .

In 1948 Meuter publicly recalled that of the former 150 members of the "German Society for Sociology", more than half were not unaffected by the extermination processes of the time, are no longer with us today , by which she meant both the National Socialist murders and the forced emigration. The statement found no response at the congress.

1951 continued Meuter on a UNESCO conference in a speech on general and methodological problems of sociology for understanding one

“(A sociologist) should above all promote mutual understanding between people from different regions, nations and cultures. ... Understanding group antagonisms cognitively is a prerequisite for successfully changing them for the better .... An important means of doing this are narrative works ... Those who know the least about another group will despise them the most. "

- Meuter, Unesco Congress Paris 1951

Works

  • The homelessness. Their effects on behavior and group formation of people. Diss. Phil. Cologne 1924 (excerpt from: Yearbook of the Philosophical Faculty Cologne 1923/24); Gustav Fischer, Jena 1925 (preface L. v. Wiese)
  • Zola's " Rougon-Maquarts " as a literary source for relational analyzes. in: Negotiations of the 5th German Sociological Congress from September 26 to 29, 1926 in Vienna. Series: Writings of the German Society for Sociology. Series 1; Volume 5. Tübingen 1927. pp. 198-212
  • The family sheet . in Emmy Wolff Ed .: Generations of Women in Pictures. FA Herbig , Berlin 1928, pp. 89-107
  • Introduction to sociology, in Die neue Volkshochschule. Library for modern intellectual education. Ed. Kurt Krause and Karl Sewering, with collaborators. v. Adolf Aber , H. Bethge and Alfred Birk. Vol. 4-5 strong adult Ed. 1925, 7th verb. 1927 edition, most recently published bookstore EG Weimann, Leipzig 9th edition 1931
  • Education for fellow human beings. Mathilde Vaerting's educational work . Dr. M. Pfeifer Liz. O. Klemm, Berlin-Friedenau 1932
  • "America I sing too". American Negro seals. Bilingual. Ed. And transl. Together with Paul Therstappen . Wolfgang Jess, Dresden 1932. With short biographies. 1st row: The new negro. The voice of the awakening Afro-America . Part 1; New edition ibid. 1959
  • Homelessness and family life . General investigation. Edited under the direction of Hanna Meuter. Series: Research on “The existence and upheaval of the family in the present”, Vol. 8, Ed. Of the series: German Academy for Social and Educational Women's Work , Alice Salomon . Publishing company R. Müller, Eberswalde o. J. (1932)
  • Prof. Vaerting's power-sociological development laws of education. Excerpts from: Sixième (6th) Congrès mondial de la "Ligue internationale pour l'éducation nouvelle" à Nice , France, on 29 June to 12 août 1932. New Education Fellowship , London 1933
  • The importance of the sense of responsibility and its effects in social life, especially in the economic system. in: Le sens de la responsabilite dans la vie sociale. Other authors Herman Finer, Univ. London & John Atkinson Hobson . Institut de sociologie Solvay , Parc Léopold, Brussels undated (1938), series: Enquêtes Sociologiques, Vol. 2. Université Libre de Bruxelles. - Meuter: pp. 339–494 (in German) pp. 495–617 (identical in French)
  • The little French at home and on the Rhine. A year of his life and a little more, told the German children. Edited by Wilhelm Fronemann . Kindt, Karlsruhe 1935 & 1947 (this edition, called Pony edition, 4, with illustration by Ruth Koser-Michaëls )
  • At Rosemarie's on Birkenweg. A young girl story. Illustrations Jupp Palm. Heinrich Holland's border region, Aachen 1948
  • Literature as a source of sociology , in "The writer", ed. Deutscher Writers' Association , 7th year 1954, issue 9. Report on the 16th International Sociological Congress in Clermont-Ferrand and Beaune-sur-Bourgogne 1954
  • " Breyell wat chuckled!" A home book from the old Kiepträger village. Ed. Association of Friends of Home “ Henese Fleck ”. Series of publications by the district of Kempen-Krefeld, Volume 12, 1959
Translations
  • Sheila Kaye-Smith: Thomas Shetter
  • Reginald Campbell: Poo Sarn, the Jungle King Schaffstein, Cologne 1951, 1954
as editor or employee
  • Hg'in: The Rhine Bridge. Since 1926 monthly supplement to “Die Menschheit. Organ of the Federation for Human Interests "Ed .: Fritz Röttcher . Verlag Friede durch Recht, Wiesbaden (for 1914). Title occupied until 1930; from 1931 "The New Humanity".
  • American Thoughts on Rationalizing Charity. in: The German economist. Journal for Politics and Economics, Ed. Gustav Stolper , 1931
  • LH Ad. Geck & Jürgen von Kempski & Hanna Meuter (Hgg): Studies in Sociology. Ceremony for Leopold von Wiese on the occasion of his 70th birthday, presented by students, colleagues and friends. Series: Studies in Sociology, Vol. 1. Internationaler Universum-Verlag, Mainz 1948
    • therein own contribution: sociology, at work of the spiritual new building. P. 61ff.
  • Paul Therstappen: ... and the quiet house on the slope. Selection from his works. Ed. HM with the Linker Niederrhein Association. Lange, Duisburg 1961
  • With Johann Fladung (ed.): Geist und Zeit. A two-month publication for art, literature and science. Other employees Fritz Helling, Hanns Jacobs, Franz Paul Schneider , Hans F. Secker, Leo Weismantel , Walter Wenzel . Editor Katharina Fuchs-Arndt. Progress, Darmstadt 1960
Small jobs

Numerous other smaller, not listed works by Meuter can be found by looking through the finding aid, see web links

  • Nels Anderson : "The Hobo ". (Review) Kölner Vierteljahrshefte für Sociologie KVS Heft 3, 1923/24, pp. 193f.
  • The quirk of the homeless. KVS 4, 1925, pp. 69-84
  • Behaviorism as a psychological and a sociological working principle. KVS 6, 1927, pp. 362-366
  • The New Negro in American Literature , ibid. Pp. 269–273
  • On the bibliography of the village as a social structure. Appendix, as chap. 9, to: The village as a social entity. Supplementary booklet to the KVS. Contributions to the doctrine of relationships, 1st ed. & Einl. L. von Wiese. Contributions by Willy Gierlichs , Hubert A. Kehren, Gerhard Kirch, Willy Latten, Elsbet Linpinsel, Herbert Rüssel. Duncker & Humblot, Munich 1928. pp. 78-89
  • Mathilde Vaerting: “Teachers and students. Their mutual behavior as the basis of characterization ”. Text discussion, in: KVS 10, 1931/32, pp. 120ff.
  • Review by Alfred Schüler: “Responsibility. On the being and ethos of the person. ”Erich Wewel, Munich 1948. In: KZfSS Jg. 2, 1950, pp. 459f
  • (as presumed author): Speech on the opening of the First German School of Journalism in Aachen , excerpt (p. 3 to end) undated (1945), in Heinrich Dreidoppel : Ursula Diepgen-Margára. A German journalist in Greece . Books on Demand 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3587-8 , again 2008. pp. 203f (in English; without citing the source)
  • (posthumous) Paul Therstappen as a Lower Rhine dialect poet. in: Heimatbuch des Krs. Viersen 1983, 34th episode, edited by Oberkreisdirektor. B. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1982
  • Numerous articles in Die Heimat , magazine of the Krefeld Heimatverein. List, under keyword . Mainly on Paul Therstappen, also on the Brüggener Madonna in Belgium, as well as on "Homeland History and World History".

Honors, memberships

  • 1924 Mevissen Prize from the City of Cologne for her dissertation
  • Member of the German Society for Sociology
  • Member of the Accademia Internazionale Mediterraneo Roma
  • Member of the Centro Studi e Scambi Internazionali
  • 1949 Honorary Diploma from the Franco-Rhenish Foundation
  • 1960 Literature Prize from the Centro Studi e Scambi Internazionali Rome-Palermo
  • 1962 Narrator Award of the Accademia Internazionale Leonardo Da Vinci Roma
  • 1995 Commemorative Medal of the Viersen District
  • The town of Nettetal, into which Lobberich was absorbed after Meuter's death in 1970, named Hanna-Meuter-Strasse after her on May 13, 2003.
  • In 2014 the Hanna-Meuter-Weg in Cologne-Kalk was named after her.

About H. Meuter

  • Leo Hilberath : Festschrift for Hanna Meuter on her 60th birthday. Archive for Journalism, Aachen 1949
  • Karl Rembert: HM for the 65th birthday. in Die Heimat, born 1954, issue 1–2, p. 35f.
  • Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 214.
  • Theresa Wobbe : Hanna Meuter "... and at the Sociologentag in Vienna I was the first woman to give a presentation". in: Barbara Hahn Hg ': Women in cultural studies. From Lou Andreas-Salomé to Hannah Arendt . Beck, Munich 1994 ISBN 3-406-37433-6 , pp. 189-203
  • Dagmar Jank: Research report: Scientific librarians in Germany. In: Journal Library. Research and practice . Volume 18, Jan. 1994, Issue 2, pp. 230-235. de Gruyter, Berlin ISSN  1865-7648 Online, ISSN  0341-4183 Print (the book announced therein is not yet published in 2009)
  • Theresa Wobbe: HM in Heimatbuch des Kreis Viersen 1996 , ibid. 1995, pp. 13-17 (online see web links)
  • Horst Knospe: Meuter, Hanna , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / ders. (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 1, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1980, p. 284.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For example, their German translation by Howard P. Becker , Secularization Processes, in: Vierteljahreshefte für Soziologie, H. 10, 1931–1932, pp. 283–294, 450–463
  2. ↑ There were also reservations about von Wiese, her doctoral supervisor. - The publication in Brussels in 1938 calls her “Professeur à l'Université de Cologne” (Cologne) on the title page, although in the French-speaking area the word also refers to teachers in the upper classes, comparable to the teacher she actually was.
  3. ↑ Heimatbuch Lobberich , source
  4. ↑ Unesco international social science bulletin, 3, No. 2, summer 1951
  5. ↑ Texts by Langston Hughes , James Weldon Johnson , Jessie Redmon Fauset , Countée Cullen , William Edward Burghardt Du Bois , Jupiter Hammon (1711–1806), Angelina (Weld) Grimké (1880–1958)
  6. ↑ Meuter wants to “examine the social relationships and processes that occur in the social state of homelessness in their effect on family life”. From the estimated number of “homeless” people in Germany at more than two million in early 1932, with the support of numerous private and public welfare organizations, she recorded several thousand cases by means of questionnaires and processing administrative files. In the study, she offers selected empirical material that is classified according to type and largely statistically open. It should be emphasized from the results that, despite the most adverse living conditions, in many cases the family shows such strong resilience that Meuter concludes from this that the family as a social structure has a special biological toughness as well as a high degree of social adaptability. She believes that "even through homelessness, the family will develop the possibility of mastering social events and maintaining themselves - ... while transforming themselves and the whole of society". The legibility of the work is made more difficult by an overly formalistic language and an excessive use of symbols and tables
  7. ↑ German National Library lists and has the work under Hobson and the complete French title. Contents list reproduced in German in FS von Wiese 1948
  8. ↑ According to the finding aid there was a planned version 'for America': A boy comes from the Riviera. Without a year. Published bibliographically not verifiable
  9. ↑ an edition cannot be proven bibliographically; In the archive, Meuter mentions herself as a translator "after 1925", but gives a different person elsewhere in the archive. In fact, the book was published in 1939, trans. from a 3rd person
  10. ^ The paper itself was published in 1915, initially in Stuttgart, and was pacifist-oriented. The supplement has not yet been proven bibliographically. Röttcher was secretary of the German Peace Society and was temporarily imprisoned in 1927 because he, like others, is said to have published information about the secret armament of the Reichswehr, which was in conflict with the Treaty of Versailles. Nothing is currently known about his possible conviction. He was discussed at ministerial level in Berlin. Federal Archives, cpl. Link only visible in write mode . He has been given as the editor of the Zs. Since 1925. The paper appeared at least temporarily (from 1919) in two languages ​​("La voix de la humanité. Organe de la Ligue pour la défense de l'humanité" for Romania) and was also called: "Federal organ for the interests of mankind and the organization of human progress." Publication organ of the "Institute for International Exchange of Progressive Experiences" and the German Pacifist Student Association (deviating from 1920: ... of the "Association of internationalist student groups in Germany".) In addition to Wiesbaden, various places of publication, e.g. B. Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Stuttgart. "Academic bookstore by Max Drechsel" is also specified as the publisher. The subtitle of the Zs. Is "For social order, for social justice, for freedom of peoples in the League of Nations ". In 1922/1923 Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster published in the sheet, documented by copies in the estate of Adolf ten Hompel; other sources say: since 1921. The essence of the paper was the preparation of a League of Nations; with Foerster's accession it became more anti-Prussian and federalist. Another author in 1920/1921 was Adolf Merkl , on the League of Nations. The forerunner of the Zs., With a stronger emphasis on literary matters, had been quarterly from 1907: Documents of Progress. International revue. Ed. Rodolphe Broda, Georg Reimer Verlag , Berlin; then Drechsel, Bern; then Paul Haupt
  11. ↑ Self-reported HM in FS von Wiese udT: Thoughts on the rationalization of the American welfare system, p. 81; Typescript in Finding Aid No. 281
  12. ↑ The collaboration from 1956 to Issue 1–2 from 1960 is documented; the Zs. was discontinued in August 1961.
  13. ↑ The title of the journal was changed from "... for social sciences" to "... for sociology" around 1923/24. See the discussion page for the KZfSS
  14. ↑ The little-known student (born July 18, 1897 in Mainz, † June 22, 1980 in Darmstadt) first presented the text in 1942: Responsibility. A contribution to the ontology and ethics of Christian personalism . Diss. Theol. University of Tübingen , Catholic Faculty. As Mkr.
  15. ↑ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Name Lexicon , City District 8 , Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2017, p. 37.
personal data
SURNAME Meuter, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meuter, Hanna Alma Josefa Carola (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, lecturer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1964
Place of death Praise