Ilse Peters (religious educator)

Ilse Peters (born March 10, 1893 in Kreuznach ; † November 27, 1980 in Hilden ) was a German Protestant religious educator and the first female professor for religious education.

Life

The daughter of the grammar school professor Rudolf Peters (1864-1946) and the Jewish Christian mother Ida geb. Cohen (1865-1940) attended school in Düsseldorf and passed the external humanistic Abitur in 1911 in Moers . She then studied German and Protestant theology in Rostock and Marburg, Zurich and Berlin. In 1917 she passed the first state examination for teaching in Marburg and the second state examination in Koblenz. Her first job was in Essen from 1919 to 1929. Friedrich Delekat won her for the Religious Education Institute in Berlin. In 1929 she was appointed to the Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund to teach Protestant theology as a lecturer and (1930) professor to aspiring elementary school teachers . In March 1933, she was dismissed from office due to the Nazi race laws , retired on December 1, 1933 and replaced in autumn 1933 by the anti-Judaist Hermann Werdermann . During the time of National Socialism, she worked in the school chamber of the Confessing Church on the didactic concept of “church-owned religious instruction” in order to arm the young people against Nazi ideology (“age level curriculum” with Martin Albertz ).

At the end of 1945 she was reinstated in the newly founded Pedagogical Academy in Kettwig . As a professor for Protestant religion and methodology of religious education , with others ( Helmuth Kittel ) developed a curriculum for Protestant instruction since 1946 , which was valid with various revisions until the 1960s and, in view of the Holocaust, was in particular a redesign of the relationship between Christians and Jews as a topic of Christian education endeavored, also against sometimes massive criticism from circles of religious educators. The curricula in North Rhine-Westphalia were shaped by her. In 1947 she was co-founder of the community of Protestant educators and member of the Rhenish church leadership. In 1958 she retired, but continued to participate in the discussion of questions of religious education. Her successor was Heinz Kremers .

Martin Stallmann criticized the previous Evangelical instruction in 1958 and renewed the principles of the curricula and a. through a biblical criticism and a hermeneutic .

The art historian Walter Cohen (1880–1942), murdered in the Dachau concentration camp , was an uncle of Ilse Peters.

Fonts

• Curriculum for Protestant instruction in elementary schools , 1946
• Keep us, Lord, at your word: Protestant religious book for secondary schools , 1969
• Editor of the magazine: Pädagogische Rundschau (founded in 1947)

literature

• Heinz Kremers (Ed.): On the relationship between specialist science, specialist didactics and religious education. Ceremony for Ilse Peters on her 85th birthday , Ratingen; Kastellaun 1978.
• Christine Reents : Ilse Peters (1893–1980) , in: Annebelle Pithan (Ed.): Religious Pedagogues of the 20th Century , Vandenhoeck & R., Göttingen 1997, pp. 53–79.
• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 565–566 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• David Käbisch:  PETERS, Ilse. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 , Sp. 1070-1090.
• Veit-Jakobus Dieterich: Religionslehrplan in Deutschland (1870-2000): Subject and construction of the Protestant religious instruction in the religious pedagogical discourse and in the official guidelines , Vandenhoeck & R., Göttingen 2007, S. 394ff.