Helene Helming

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Maria Theodora Helene Helming (born March 6, 1888 in Ahaus , Westphalia , † July 5, 1977 in Coesfeld , Westphalia) was a German educator , professor , Catholic and publicist . She was an important representative of Montessori education in Germany.

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Helene Helming was born on March 6, 1888 as the eldest of 13 children of the doctor Hermann Theodor Helming and his wife Antonia, née. Berentzen , born in Ahaus / Westphalia. Her parents made it possible for her to study, which she successfully completed in 1908 with a teacher's examination for middle schools. After teaching for two years at a girls' school in Ahaus, Helene Helming then studied German, English and history at the universities in Münster and Berlin. After that she was a teacher in Berlin for two years, and from 1919 in Cologne. Another two years later she moved to a girls' middle school in Aachen as director. From 1923 she headed the Froebel seminar in Aachen.

Through her interest in the upbringing of small children, Helming came into contact with Montessori education and in the winter of 1927/1928 took part in a course in Berlin that Maria Montessori himself led. Enthusiastic about the concept, she set up a Montessori group affiliated with the Aachen Froebel seminar. From this group, an independent Montessori school developed later. In 1930 she made the International Montessori Diploma in Rome.

In 1935 Helming was removed from her post as school director by the National Socialists . The reason was that the pedagogy she represented and practiced was incompatible with the National Socialist ideas. In 1938 she published a publication that was shaped by the Christian faith and addressed to the young Christian family:

“If you leaf through the book, you will find articles of various kinds that give their word on marriage and family, childhood and upbringing, house, garden and other related things. Marriage and family are a reality that has only been lived in days and years, incorporated into home and people, known by man and woman, experienced in perception and renunciation, accepted in faith, revealing its essence to us without us as long as we live , could include. The nature of this book, which is not systematically closed, but expresses multiple experiences, receives its meaning from it. "

After the capitulation of the Third Reich, Helming was appointed professor and director of the newly founded Pedagogical Academy in Essen-Kupferdreh in 1946. In 1954 she retired. She used her retirement to publish and edit various works on Montessori education and the religious upbringing of children (see bibliography).

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helming 1941, p. IV

Works

  • H. Helming: Montessori pedagogy. A modern educational path in concrete terms. Herder-Verlag, Freiburg 2002. 207 pages. ISBN 3-451-26770-5
  • M. Montessori: Children are different. Edited by H. Helming. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag 1997. 221 pages. ISBN 3-423-36047-X
  • M. Montessori & H. Helming: Children who live in the church. Herder Verlag 1964. 247 pages.
  • H. Helming & M. Wachendorf: The religious pedagogical mission of the kindergarten teacher. Patmos-Verlag 1963. 104 pages.
  • M. Montessori & H. Helming: God and the Child. Working group for Montessori education. 1956. 30 pages.
  • H. Helming: The domestic preparation of children for the Holy Eucharist. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1951. 86 pages.
  • H. Helming: The vine. Book of the young Christian family. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1938, 3rd edition 1941. 263 pages.

literature

  • Manfred Berger: Helming, Helene. In: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work. Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 238-240.
  • Manfred Berger :  Helene Helming. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 725-730.
  • Manfred Berger: Helene Helming (1888–1977). Pioneer of Montessori education. In: Ingeborg Höting, Ludger Kremer, Timothy Sodmann (eds.): Westermünsterländische Biografien 1. Vreden / Bredevoort 2015, pp. 255–259.

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personal data
SURNAME Helming, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helming, Maria Theodora Helene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahaus
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1977
Place of death Coesfeld