Helene von Bila

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Helene von Bila (born April 19, 1904 in Halle (Saale) , † February 11, 1985 in Wiesbaden ) was a German university politician.

Life

Helene Marie Melanie Dorothea von Bila came from the original noble family von Bila . She was born in 1904 as the daughter of Ernst von Bila and his wife Helene Lohmann (1880–1942) in Halle (Saale). The parents ran a small estate that raised chickens and supplied horticultural products for the local market. After the father's death in August 1918, the property was leased. Helene von Bila attended a girls' high school and graduated from secondary school in 1920. She then did an agricultural apprenticeship in Mecklenburg and then returned to her parents' business in Saxony-Anhalt.

Helene von Bila also graduated from high school in Bernburg (Saale) and was awarded it in 1926. From 1928 she studied law in Leipzig, Berlin, Paris and Marburg. In Berlin, she worked at Eduard Kohlrausch's criminal investigation institute . She earned her studies through office work, library services and translations. She increasingly dealt with social issues and received her doctorate in Leipzig in 1932 with the thesis "The total or partial non-use of industrial facilities in the sense of the decommissioning ordinance".

In the 1930s she worked in the Berlin office of the German Ammonia Sales Association (DAVV), founded in 1895, and the Benzol Association. Later she worked for Adolf Schüle , the legal advisor of the nitrogen syndicate founded in 1919, which was based in the Europahaus in Berlin .

After the liberation from National Socialism in May 1945, she made herself available to the District Administrator and Lord Mayor of Bernburg. From July 1945 she became legal advisor to the US military government in Marburg. When the Hessian state government was being established, she joined the Ministry of Justice in October 1945 and became the personal advisor and press spokesperson for Justice Minister Georg August Zinn . In September 1949 she moved to the Hessian personnel office. Here she had u. a. to examine the possibility of setting up a women's unit. From October 1949 to February 1950 she went on a study trip to the USA and gathered relevant impressions there. In January 1951, she moved to the State Chancellery as an advisor to Prime Minister Zinn .

On October 20, 1952, she became the head of the university department in the Ministry of Education and Popular Education. She held this office until her retirement in March 1969. It served the three SPD ministers Ludwig Metzger , Arno Hennig and Ernst Schütte . Helene von Bila was thus significantly involved in all questions in the development of the Hessian universities after the Second World War. For a long time it was the constant in changing Hessian governments. Helene von Bila created important legal foundations for the organization of Hessian higher education in the 1950s and 1960s. They tried to rebuild and expand the universities during this time. It also exerted a considerable, in some cases decisive, influence on the appointment of professorships at the Hessian universities during this period. She was also actively involved in the SPD and ran for the Social Democrats on their Hessian state list in the federal elections in 1949 and 1953 .

For example, she campaigned for the reopening of the University of Giessen , whose permanent closure after the end of the Second World War was seriously considered for a long time. She advocated a transfer of the training of secondary, secondary and vocational school teachers to the universities and created additional professorships for this. Helene von Bila was also involved in expansion and location issues. So it continued in the early 1960s a. a. for the Lichtwiese location of the TH Darmstadt in order to secure a long-term sustainable development, which was no longer possible in the Darmstadt city center.

Helene von Bila was also active in the municipal administration of the state capital Wiesbaden for a long time. She retired in the spring of 1969. During her retirement, she dealt with various current issues, including research on aging. She died childless in 1985 in Wiesbaden at the age of 80.

Honors

Publications

  • The total or partial non-use of operating facilities within the meaning of the Decommissioning Ordinance. Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1933 (Leipzig, University, dissertation, 1934).
  • Gerontology. Inventory of the situation of aging research in the Federal Republic of Germany (= series of publications by the Volkswagenwerk Foundation. Vol. 12). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1974, ISBN 3-525-85354-8 .

literature

  • Notker Hammerstein : Helene von Bila. Science politician in the post-war period. In: President of the Justus Liebig University (ed.): Panorama. 400 years of the University of Giessen. Actors, locations, culture of remembrance. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-7973-1038-2 , pp. 142-145.
  • Clemens Albrecht, Günter C. Behrmann, Michael Bock, Harald Homann, Friedrich H. Tenbruck: The intellectual founding of the Federal Republic of Germany. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-593-36214-7 .
  • Notker Hammerstein: Bila, Helene von, Dr. jur. In: Eva Labouvie (Hrsg.): Frauen in Sachsen-Anhalt, Vol. 2 A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 83 -85.

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Bila, Helene von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1985
Place of death Wiesbaden