Heinrich Otto Reddersen
Heinrich Otto Reddersen (born June 14, 1827 in Verden , † July 18, 1908 in Ballenstedt ) was a German educator and social worker .
biography
The unmarried Reddersen was the son of the sexton and organist Gotthelf Dieterich Reddersen and his wife Anne Catharine nee. Neumann. He graduated from the Domgymnasium Verden and attended the teachers' seminar in Stade. For a short time he worked at the grammar school in Verden.
From 1857 he was a teacher at the Bremen Citizens' School for religion and gymnastics. In 1862 he was a co-founder of the Bremen teachers' gymnastics club . From 1879 to 1903 he was chairman of an educational association which, among other things, placed children at risk in rural families, founded holiday colonies and in 1883 founded the association for boys' associations for neglected children. One home was called the Knabenheim Reddersen . In 1889 he founded the household school association with three institutions for girls, in 1896 the association for the Bremen Idiotenanstalt from 1898 in the Feldmark in Horn with the Reddersen house and finally the boys' handicraft school . From 1893, Reddersen and Lucy Lindhorn jointly ran the women's trade association . He was retired in 1894, but continued to volunteer.
The Reddersen house remained in existence until 1939. During the Nazi era , many children were forcibly sterilized. After the Second World War , the house became part of the Bremen mental hospital and from 1955 to the end of the 1970s a nursing home.
Honors
The Reddersenstrasse in Bremen - Horn-Lehe was named after him.
literature
- Gerda Engelbracht: The Reddersen house. On the history of Bremen's first nursing and educational institution for mentally and physically handicapped children and young people . Bremen 1995, ISBN 978-3-924444-90-7 .
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Michael Koppel: Horn-Lehe-Lexikon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-1029-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reddersen, Heinrich Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and social worker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1908 |
| Place of death | Ballenstedt |