Ida Eberhardt

Ida Alma Friederike Eberhardt (born June 2, 1888 in Dissen am Teutoburg Forest , † December 10, 1974 there ) was a German educator .

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Ida Eberhardt was a daughter of the businessman Johann Eberhardt and his wife Johanne, née Fromme. She was born on the Frommenhof and grew up with three older siblings. She attended the Michaelis Realgymnasium as an external student, which she left with the Abitur in 1910. She then studied at universities in Berlin , Freiburg im Breisgau , Kiel and Göttingen . In 1914 she passed the examination for the higher teaching post and in 1916 received the qualifications to teach physics, biology, chemistry and philosophical propaedeutics. She worked as a private teacher until 1919 and from 1920 to 1922, when she was appointed to the teaching position, in Altona . She then taught in Bremen and in March 1928 received a call from headmaster Heinrich Landahl to the Hamburg Lichtwark School , which is oriented towards reform education .

In 1929 Eberhardt took over the management of a fifth class, in which she taught among others Helmut and Loki Schmidt , née Glaser. Loki Schmidt in particular later wrote several times about her time at Eberhardt and stated that this had decisively shaped her interest in botany and her later career choice.

Ida Eberhardt was considered a nature-loving teacher who was able to convey knowledge in a vivid way and who went on class and hiking trips with her students. She also campaigned for tolerance. During the time of National Socialism , this led to professional consequences: After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Erwin Zindler replaced Landahl, who had been headmaster until then. Other teachers who were not loyal to the regime had to leave the school. Eberhardt refused to become a member of the NSDAP or the NSLB . She also criticized emerging anti-Semitic tendencies in the Lichtwark School. After she met colleagues and previously dismissed teachers in her apartment in 1934, the Gestapo took her on leave . In 1935 her employment was terminated due to the law to restore the civil service .

After the end of the Second World War , Eberhardt taught until his retirement in 1953. She then published the works of her sister Margarete Eberhardt for the Eberhardt Society . She kept in touch with her place of birth, which she often traveled to, and with her former students until she was old.

Ida Eberhardt died after a long illness. In 1974 the magazine Discussion dedicated an issue designed by former students, colleagues and friends to her.

literature

• Anne-Kathrin Beer: Ida Eberhardt . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 100 .