Hermione Albers

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Hermine Anna Josephine Albers (* July 21, 1894 in Bitburg , Eifel ; † April 24, 1955 in Hamburg ) was a German social scientist and co-founder of the working group for youth care and welfare and co-editor of the socio-educational magazine Our Youth .

Life

Albers was born as the only child of the district school board member Hermann Albers and his wife Klara Helene, geb. Linden, born in Bitburg. The father died shortly before she was born; At the age of twelve she moved with her mother to Cologne , where she attended the humanistic girls' high school. After graduating from high school, from 1914 to 1917 she studied social and political sciences at the University of Bonn and the Cologne University for Social and Local Administration. After graduating, she worked in social and welfare work, including as managing director of the association for infant care and welfare in the Düsseldorf administrative region (until 1923) and as a department head of the municipal welfare office in Solingen . 1926 Albers was at the University of Cologne Dr. rer. pole. did his doctorate and then taught economics and law at a women's seminar for social professional work in Frankfurt / Main. In 1928 Hermine Albers was appointed to the social administration of the city of Hamburg, where she was entrusted with setting up cross-agency family welfare.

In 1933 she was dismissed from the public service as a member of the Social Democratic Party and the AWO, and above all because of her attitude towards National Socialism . She then worked as an auditor and trustee in various commercial companies. This activity gave her the time and opportunity to assist former like-minded people. When, after July 20, 1944, various former members of parliament and the Senate were affected and threatened with deprivation of liberty, she kept in contact with them and their relatives and delivered news and advice.

Immediately after the war, Hermine Albers took over the management of the Hamburg State Youth Welfare Office . Three years later she was appointed director of government. In this position of responsibility, she worked with enormous energy to “rebuild youth welfare: systematic design and organization of youth care and youth welfare, immediate measures for children and young people in need, expansion of public educational assistance and the system of urban day-care centers for children and recreation, measures for the unemployed and the poor Young people, development of family welfare as part of public youth welfare, reform of training for social professions ”.

Hermine Albers played a key role in the creation of the federal working group of state youth welfare offices. From 1952 to 1955 she was the second chairman of the working group for child and youth welfare . She was also a board member of the Victor Gollancz Foundation as well as co-founder and co-editor of the journal Our Youth , whose intellectual face she helped to shape.

Hermine Albers died on April 24, 1955, she was buried in the Bergstedt cemetery in Hamburg , the grave has already been abandoned.

Hermine Albers Prize

Because of Hermine Albers' great services to child and youth welfare, the Working Group for Youth Welfare decided in 1955 to found the Hermine Albers Prize (now also: German Youth Welfare Prize).

Works (selection)

  • The organization of youth welfare care for young children and school children, Düsseldorf 1927
  • Young people at risk, in: Our cities and their youth, Göttingen 1951, pp. 195 ff.
  • The social situation of young people and the tasks and problems of public youth care, in: Yearbook of Youth Work, Munich undated, p. 47 ff.

literature

  • Bodo Schünemann: Albers, Hermine . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 14-16 .
  • Walter Thorun : Hermine Albers. To commemorate her 100th birthday on July 21, 1994. In: Our youth . 1994 / H. 6, p. 236 ff.
  • Hugo Maier : Who's who in social work. Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, p. 33 f.
  • Manfred Berger : Who was ... Hermine Albers? , in: Sozialmagazin 2003 / H. 6, pp. 6-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maier 1998, p. 34.
  2. ↑ Thorun 1994, p. 237.
  3. ↑ Hermine Albers at garten-der-frauen.de
personal data
SURNAME Albers, Hermione
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albers, Hermine Anna Josephine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and co-founder of the working group for youth care and welfare
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitburg , Eifel
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1955
Place of death Hamburg