Hanni Ullmann

Hanni Ullmann (born September 10, 1908 in Posen , † September 28, 2002 in Kfar Saba ), née Hanna Risch, was a German - Israeli educator .

Life

Hanni Ullmann was born Hanna Risch on September 10, 1908 in Posen. Her father Hermann Risch was 36 years old when he married 18-year-old Paula Rothstein. The merchant family Rothstein wanted to gain an academic through the marriage and therefore agreed to marry the dentist Hermann Risch. Shortly before Paula Risch's 20th birthday, Hanni was born and exactly one year later, on September 10, 1909, her brother Theodor, known as Theo.

Hanni Ullmann had a happy childhood. Through her father's closeness to nature, she got to know a simple lifestyle. The father is characterized by Ullmann's biographer Dagmar Bluthardt as a good-natured, patient teacher for the children, who enjoyed being a good conversationalist, especially for his grandson Jonathan, into old age. She, who is described by Dagmar Bluthardt as a very elegant and educated woman who was strongly influenced by her father, awakened a love for art and culture in the children.

The parents belonged to the upper social class , were very religious , but politically liberal and progressive and closely connected with German culture. Hermann and Paula Risch lived very consciously that they belonged to Judaism and kept all laws and holidays. In addition to German culture, the Jewish religion and tradition were also particularly important for Hanna's intellectual family life.

The family moved from Poznan to Berlin in 1918. In 1929 Hanni Ullmann emigrated with her husband to Haifa in what was then Palestine . Before emigrating, she married Ernst Menachem Ullmann in March 1929 in Berlin-Schöneberg . He was a caretaker / craftsman by profession who trained as an engineer for water systems .

She was the mother of three children. Until her death, she worked in the “Neve Hanna” home to receive refugees and went on trips abroad to collect donations. She died on September 28, 2002 in Kfar Saba, Israel.

job

In Hanni Ullmann's childhood and adolescence, education played a major role, which is typical of Judaism. Even as a child, Ullmann was certain that one day she would like to become a kindergarten teacher . As a teenager, she made the decision to learn this profession; For her that meant not only practicing it, but also dealing with the theoretical background. Despite the theoretical training, Hanni Ullmann saw herself primarily as a practitioner. The connection between theory and practice accompanied Ullmann throughout her life.

After attending the Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium in Berlin, she began training at the Charlottenburg youth center and was finally trained as a kindergarten teacher from 1924 to 1926 .

After completing her training, she got a job as an intern at the Ahawah Children's Home . In the 1920s and 1930s, the ahawah received great attention far beyond Berlin because of its educational work.

In Zurich she began training as a curative teacher . In the summer semester of 1953, Hanni Ullmann was given the opportunity, supported by a grant from the “Schweizer Europahilfe”, an organization for exchange students, to take part in a special course “for mentally damaged children” as a guest student . In 1953 she broke off her education and returned to Israel . She saw the need to found a nursing school in Israel.

Political attitude

From a political perspective, Hanni Ullman was influenced by Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919) and Rosa Luxemburg (1870–1919). In the course of her life, Hanni Ullmann noticed that their skills and characteristics were very similar; In a special way she felt very attached to the politicians. She stood up for injustice and for living together. In the same way, Hanni Ullmann later took care of the misery of children who were disadvantaged by this society with stubborn self-discipline as a pedagogue . This made her feel like Rosa Luxemburg as a Jew.

job

From 1926 to 1929 she initially worked as an intern in the Jewish children's and youth home Ahawah in Berlin-Mitte, founded by Beate Berger , and then until 1934 as a housekeeper to bridge the difficult times in Palestine . From 1935 she worked in Ahawah , which was gradually relocated to Palestine between 1934 and 1939 and was rebuilt in Kirjat Bialik . In 1956 she succeeded Hugo Rosenthal , who had been the head of the facility since 1940 , and held this position until 1970. Here she founded what was then the first school for the training of kindergarten teachers in Israel .

Services

The Plans for Neva Hanna (1970)

From her professional and life experience, she took the chance to implement all of her experiences and ideas in a home. This home should be a real home for the children and young people who come from weak family homes. She was not alone with these ideas: in the 1950s she got in touch with her old friend from Berlin, Hanna Kaphan, when Hanni Ullmann was working as a young teacher in the Ahawah.

However, Kaphan died before the realization of her dream. She bequeathed Hanni Ullmann a certain amount of money that was sufficient to take the first steps towards founding this home. From these roots a home emerged that, according to Ullmann's biographer Dagmar Burghardt, is still one of the most modern and best-run in Israel .

Realization of the House (1974)

The Neve Hanna home was founded to take in Jewish refugees from all over the world. On December 10, 1974, the home named Neva Hanna was founded for behavioral children from broken families aged 3 to 17 years . The goal of education is individual care in the spirit of conservative American Judaism. If necessary, the care for the children also extends to the time after leaving the home. The children come from destroyed families who have not yet managed to gain a foothold in Israel. The home should give the children a warm home and a family atmosphere that is based on genuine Jewish tradition.

literature

• Dagmar Bluthardt: History, theory and practice of family-like home education, illustrated using the example of the Jewish educator Hanni Ullmann. Dissertation 2002. (online at: tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de )
• Max Gloor: The history of the Neve Hanna Switzerland association. August 18, 2009.
• Fritz Ullmann, Karin von Ullmann: Hanni Ullmann . In: Who's Who. The People Lexicon. since 1999.

further reading

• Regina Scheer : Ahava, the forgotten house. Searching for clues in Berlin's Auguststrasse. Aufbauverlag, 1992.
• Regina Scheer: “Water wildly over our souls” was a woman's life. Aufbauverlag, 1999, ISBN 3-7466-8092-1 . (Biography of Hanni Ullmann)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hanni Ullmann. Short biography. (No longer available online.) Neve Hanna Kinderhilfe eV Hamburg (www.nevehanna.de), archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved December 27, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Dagmar blood Hardt: History, Theory and practice of family-like home education, the example of Jewish pedagogue Hanni Ullmann. (PDF; 2.2 MB) p. 54, accessed on December 28, 2012.
3. ↑ Dagmar blood Hardt: History, Theory and practice of family-like home education, the example of Jewish pedagogue Hanni Ullmann. (PDF; 2.2 MB) p. 74, accessed on December 28, 2012.
4. ↑ Dagmar blood Hardt: History, Theory and practice of family-like home education, the example of Jewish pedagogue Hanni Ullmann. (PDF; 2.2 MB) p. 170, accessed on December 28, 2012.
5. ↑ Dagmar blood Hardt: History, Theory and practice of family-like home education, the example of Jewish pedagogue Hanni Ullmann. (PDF; 2.2 MB) p. 66, accessed on December 28, 2012 (also the quotations)
6. ↑ Dagmar blood Hardt: History, Theory and practice of family-like home education, the example of Jewish pedagogue Hanni Ullmann. (PDF; 2.2 MB) p. 174, accessed on December 28, 2012.
7. ↑ Dagmar blood Hardt: History, Theory and practice of family-like home education, the example of Jewish pedagogue Hanni Ullmann. (PDF; 2.2 MB) p. 177, accessed on December 28, 2012.
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Dagmar Bluthardt: History, theory and practice of family-like home education, illustrated using the example of the Jewish educator Hanni Ullmann. (PDF; 2.2 MB) p. 181, accessed on December 28, 2012.