Hildegard von Gierke

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Hildegard von Gierke (born September 30, 1880 in Breslau ; † April 14, 1966 in Osterode am Harz ) was a German social worker .

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Hildegard Valeska Magarete, called Hilga, was the youngest of six children of the well-known legal scholar and historian Otto von Gierke and his wife Lili von Gierke, née. Loening, who came from a Jewish publishing family from Frankfurt am Main . Her sister, who is six years older than her, is the social pedagogue Anna von Gierke , her brother, born in 1875, is the lawyer Julius von Gierke and her brother, born in 1877, is the pathologist Edgar von Gierke . After private lessons and attending a secondary school for girls , she worked on a voluntary basis in the youth home association in Berlin-Charlottenburg . From 1900 to 1902 she completed her training as a kindergarten teacher at the kindergarten teachers' seminar at the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus in Berlin . Hildegard von Gierke then worked in a Berlin kindergarten and also attended a teacher training course.

From 1905 she taught the future kindergarten teachers at the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus and directed the elementary classes there . In this role she played a decisive role in the reorganization of kindergarten teacher training in Prussia. One consequence of this was that the first state kindergarten teacher exams were held in Prussia in 1912. "

From October 1914 to February 1917 she was in charge of the voluntary war aid in Berlin-Schöneberg . She then headed the women's department at the War Office in Magdeburg until the end of the war and then briefly took over the management of the youth protection department in Berlin-Schöneberg. In her responsible position, she advocated the provision of a larger number of daycare facilities, as well as an improvement in their quality, in order to give working mothers the feeling of security that their children are well looked after:

“Above all, the children of working women must be cared for to a very different extent. They can only remain enthusiastic and able to work if they know that the children are cared for and lovingly cared for during full working hours. So there is a strong interest of the War Office in child welfare. She has to adapt to the changed circumstances and, from a hygienic and educational point of view, to a much greater extent try to make up for the deficiency resulting from the absence of the mother in every single child, as in peacetime. "

From 1919 to 1921 she was, in succession to Marie Baum , lecturer and head of practical training at the Institute for Social Education in Hamburg . Hildegard von Gierke then returned to her old place of work, the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus, as the second manager alongside Lili Droescher . In addition, she was involved in a responsible position in the Berlin section of the professional organization of kindergarten teachers, after-school care workers and youth leaders as well as in the German Froebel Association . She was involved in the "creation of new examination regulations and admission requirements for the various social training institutions ... As a result of her efforts to intensify the training situation, the training of the after-school teacher was combined with that of the kindergarten teacher". Furthermore, since 1925 she was a member of the board of the German Academy for Social and Educational Women's Work , since 1928 a member of the Social Work Section of the Federation of German Women's Associations , and in 1932 she also took over the office of chairman of the Berlin Association for Popular Education, was secretary for the Federation of the Professional Organization of the Social Service and taught for a short time at the German Health Care School in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

When the Nazis came to power, she had to give up all of her offices. Hildegard von Gierke moved with her friend Gretel Magnus to Osterode am Harz . After the collapse of the Nazi dictatorship, Hildegard von Gierke, now 65 years old, set up a technical school for kindergarten teachers in Landheim Hundert Eichen (at that time still owned by the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus ), which she ran until 1950. To her regret, the technical school was closed in 1952 (partly due to expropriation of the property) and an institute for teacher training was established.

Hildegard von Gierke died in 1966 at the age of 85 in Osterode am Harz. She found her final resting place next to her parents and sister Anna in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Westend .

Works (selection)

  • (with Alice Davidsohn, née Kuczynski) All kinds of paper works (= Lili Droescher [Hrsg.]: Small activity books for nursery and kindergarten. Book 5). B. G. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1910; OCLC 37118864 ; 6th edition (with Alice Dorpalen-Kuczynski). B. G. Teubner, Leipzig 1926, DNB 579965910 .
  • What demands are there for small child care from the increasing employment of women? In: German Committee for Infant Education (Hrsg.): Small child welfare and population policy. Report on the German Committee for Small Childcare from 1. – 11. October 1917 in Frankfurt a. M. organized a 2nd course on childcare. Englert & Schlosser, Frankfurt / Main 1918, OCLC 1068411992 , pp. 144-153.
  • The educational influence on children in hospitals. In: Journal for the entire hospital sector. 1929, issue 16, ISSN  0931-6825 , pp. 444-447.
  • The new examination regulations. In: Kindergarten . 1930, No. 5, ISSN  2629-0715 , pp. 63-67.
  • Our parents' house. 1960 (private print).
  • (with Luise Heinemann) Nature in the course of the year, observed with children. With the participation of Isa Gruner . Drawings: Esther Bartning, Bodo Meyner. 5th edition. O. Maier, Ravensburg 1961, DNB 451542584 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ On family genealogy : Von Gierke ( Memento of April 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: von-gierke.de, accessed on April 18, 2018 (here in the transcription: “Hildeard (Hilga) Valeska Magarete)”.
  2. ↑ Gudrun von der Recke: Anna and Hildegard von Gierke - two pioneers of socio-educational work. Munich 2005, p. 56 (unpublished diploma thesis).
  3. ↑ Gierke 1918, p. 146.
  4. ↑ Gudrun von der Recke: Anna and Hildegard von Gierke - two pioneers of socio-educational work. Munich 2005, p. 127 (unpublished diploma thesis).
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 473.
personal data
SURNAME Gierke, Hildegard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gierke, Hildegard Valeska Magarete von (full name); Hilga (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social worker
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1966
Place of death Osterode am Harz