Helene Sumper
Helene Sumper (born July 20, 1854 in Munich ; † June 10, 1926 there ) was a German teacher , women's rights activist and social politician .
Live and act
Helene Sumper was the daughter of a master butcher. After elementary school she attended the secondary school for daughters in the Servitine monastery. She then continued her education on a private basis and then attended the district teacher seminar in Munich from 1872 to 1875. Sumper then worked as an assistant teacher in Erding. In 1878 she was transferred to Munich and was one of the first Bavarian teachers to receive the definitive. In Munich she taught the 8th class for girls at the Klenzeschule for almost 30 years. Since 1895 she was also active at the advanced training school for girls initiated by the city school councilor Georg Kerschensteiner . For this type of school, Sumper played a key role in the reading book for female advanced training and holiday schools published by the Munich Teachers' Association in 1891 . In addition to her professional work, she strongly advocated a reform of girls' education. A student at the Klenzeschule wrote:
- Above all, however, Miss Sumper, the head of all home economics lessons, works tirelessly to develop a method that is permeated by a genuinely pestàlozzo spirit and realizes the principle of work and visualization. This is evidenced by the magnificent collection of visualization aids that the teachers and students themselves created at their suggestion. We see there the development of human dwelling and clothing, lighting, etc., the enemies of the house and the means of exterminating them, toys for the child, the utensils necessary for child care, an assortment of food, etc. It is a small museum that was created here and is constantly being expanded and improved .
In 1887 Sumper founded the "Munich Teachers 'Association" and in 1898 the "Bavarian Teachers' Association", which she headed until her death. She was also a member of the board of the General German Teachers' Association and chairwoman of the "Association of German Further Education and Technical School Teachers ", which she co-founded. In addition, she was involved in the association for women's interests , within the education commission , which u. a. campaigned for the establishment of a second municipal secondary school for girls in Munich. Helene Sumper was also extremely active outside of the Bavarian national borders. She gave innumerable lectures, especially on women's and girls' education and the rationalization of housekeeping. In this regard, she published a considerable number of articles in: "Bayerische Lehrerinnenzeitung" and "Die Lehrerin".
From 1914 to 1918 she was an advisor in the Ministry of War and the Interior, responsible for issues relating to women's work and for the protection of babies and children. From November 1918 she was a member of the Provisional National Council for the professional group of Bavarian teachers for two and a half months. In addition to Helene Sumper, there were the following seven women in the National Council (which made up a proportion of female members of 3.1%): Hedwig Kämpfer for the state advisory board , Aloisia Eberle for the Christian trade unions, Maria Sturm for the Catholic teachers, Luise Kiesselbach as the representative of the council intellectual worker, Emilie Maurer for the Social Democratic Women's Association , Rosa Kempf for the Main Association of Bavarian Women's Associations and Anita Augspurg for the Women's Suffrage Association
During the First World War, Helene Sumper founded a home at Äußere Wiener Straße 120 next to the Versailles School in Munich (first in a barrack, from 1929 as a permanent building) to offer accommodation to teaching girls who could not find a suitable place to stay or their mothers in War use were. She worked and worked with great men and women of her time. a. with Ika Freudenberg , Anita Augspurg, Luise Kiesselbach, who actively supported them in the founding of the First Parity Welfare Association Munich (1922) and the Bavarian State Association of the German Parity Welfare Association (1924), Georg Kerschensteiner , Johanna Huber , Amalie Nacken , to name but a few call.
On the occasion of her death, Helene Lange , the grande dame of the German women's movement, summed up in an obituary:
- Her personality had significance far beyond the blue and white border posts ... Helene Sumper's entire life's work was applied to Bavaria. Her name, her activity ... The master of the advanced training school has many young teachers at the feet of the master of the advanced training school, like a red thread that marks the ropes as public property on English ships through everything that was essential there in the field of girls' schools sat who had made a pilgrimage to Munich from the north (Lange 1925/1926, p. 596 f).
Honors
The girls' home founded by Helene Sumper was named after her.
Works
- Continuing education schools for girls. Gera 1899
- Continuing education schools for girls. Lecture at the V General Assembly of the General German Teachers' Association in Danzig 1899 from May 21 to 23, 1899, in: Die Lehrerin in Schule und Haus 15 (1898/99), pp. 918–925 u. 953-969
- Tasks of women in relation to child protection. Augsburg 1905
- The social significance of simple arithmetic. in: Frauenbildung 1909, pp. 39–348
- Preparations for housekeeping lessons in the 8th girls' classes and the female advanced training schools in Munich. Munich 1913
- The protection and care of female youth. in: Bastian Schmid, Max Brahn (ed.): The new Germany in education and teaching, 1918, issue 5, p. 182 ff.
literature
- Helene Lange: Helene Sumper. An obituary. in: Die Frau 1925/1926, pp. 596–597
- Helmut Beilner: The emancipation of the Bavarian teacher - demonstrated in the work of the Bavarian teachers' association (1898–1933). A contribution to the history of the emancipation of women, Munich 1971, p. 55 ff.
- Ilse Brehmer, Karin Ehrich: Motherhood as a profession? CVs of German pedagogues in the first half of this century. Volume 2: Short biographies, Pfaffenweiler 1993, pp. 258-259
- State capital Munich: The history of the women's movement in Munich. Munich 2014
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swiss Teachers' Magazine 1912/13, issue 1, p. 9
- ↑ cf. City of Munich 2014, p. 76 f
- ↑ These included the children's homes of the Association for Women's Interests , the House Care Association , the Institute for Social Work , the Association for Child Protection and the girls' home that she established
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sumper, Helene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, women's rights activist and social politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1926 |
| Place of death | Munich |