Ingeborg Meinhof

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Ingeborg Marie Elise Meinhof (born June 9, 1909 in Schwerin / Warthe as Ingeborg Guthardt; † March 2, 1949 in Oldenburg ) was a German art historian and the mother of the left-wing terrorist Ulrike Meinhof .

Life

Ingeborg Meinhof was the daughter of Johannes Guthardt (* 1884 in Borken ) and Martha Kluge. She was a member of the Socialist Workers Youth . Shortly after graduating from high school, she married the art historian Werner Meinhof in 1928 . Apart from a study visit of several months in Florence, the couple lived in Oldenburg, where Werner Meinhof received an assistant position at the Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History . Her two daughters Wienke and Ulrike were born in 1931 and 1934. The family moved to Thuringia in 1936 when Werner Meinhof was appointed director of the city ​​museum in Jena . On February 7, 1940, he died of pancreatic cancer . With the help of the city of Jena, Ingeborg Meinhof then started studying art history in order to later work as a teacher. During a study seminar, she made friends with Renate Riemeck , who soon moved into the Meinhof family's house as a subtenant. Both were assistants to Johann von Leers , holder of the chair for “German Legal, Economic and Political History on a Racial Basis” at the University of Jena . In 1943, she was at the local philosophical Fakultätmit a dissertation on medieval and modern design in the visual arts to the Dr. phil. PhD, Riemeck with one such on the late medieval flagellants of Thuringia and the German flagellant movements . At the end of the war in 1945, the two fled with Wienke and Ulrike for fear of the Russians to Bad Berneck , where they worked as primary school teachers. In 1946 Meinhof and Riemeck moved on to Oldenburg, where they passed their second state examination and then taught as assessors at a secondary school for girls. Ingeborg Meinhof died on March 2, 1949 after cancer surgery in autumn 1948. Wienke and Ulrike stayed with Renate Riemeck, who took over the guardianship .

According to Jutta Ditfurth , Ingeborg Meinhof had a “passionate affair” with the writer Friedrich Griese for nine months in 1936/1937 . "When Griese informed Werner Meinhof about the relationship after a while, there were terrible arguments," writes Jutta Ditfurth. Alois Prinz also mentions the "short but violent affair", but without mentioning the name Griese. According to Jutta Ditfurth, Griese processed their love story together in his novel Trees in the Wind (1937).

Fonts

  • Medieval and modern design in the fine arts. A distinction of their desire to form, with special consideration of the ornament. Jena 1943, OCLC 72602783 (dissertation, University of Jena, Philosophical Faculty, 1943).
  • Articles in the series Die Laterne. Work equipment for elementary, middle and high schools . Oldenburg publishing house, Oldenburg 1949.
    • God protect honorable craft (6th - 8th school year) (= The Lantern , Book 9).
    • with Renate Riemeck: Friends and Helpers of Mankind , 3 booklets (= Die Laterne , booklet 14-16).
    • Christmas (7th – 10th school year) (= Die Laterne , booklet 19)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Schwerin / Warthe, No. 93/1909
  2. ↑ Death register StA Oldenburg-Stadt, No. 291/1949
personal data
SURNAME Meinhof, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meinhof, Ingeborg Marie Elise; Guthardt, Ingeborg Marie Elise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and mother of Ulrike Meinhof
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin / Warthe
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1949
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)