Johanna Ittner

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Johanna Gertrud Ittner (* August 11, 1932 in Schwabach as Johanna Gertrud Schwarz ) is a German specialist teacher for housekeeping and manual labor . Johanna Ittner has received several awards for her voluntary work.

Origin, occupation

Johanna Ittner was born in the Middle Franconian town of Schwabach as the daughter of Friedrich and Babette Schwarz. After school, she completed the women's technical college in Nuremberg and from 1953 attended the state institute of the Bayreuth University of Education for training as a specialist teacher for handicraft and housekeeping. Here she graduated in 1954. After a long family break, she taught as a specialist teacher at the vocational and business school and the adult education center in Schwabach. From 1974 to 1984 she chaired the examination committee for the acceptance of the state-approved housekeeper. Afterwards Johanna Ittner was chairwoman of the master craftsman's examination committee in Middle Franconia and a member of the master’s examination committee in Saxony .

Voluntary and political engagement

After the birth of her fourth child, Johanna Ittner founded the first mothers group in Schwabach in 1965 with the aim of creating a common platform for young women to exchange experiences.

From 1972 she belonged to the group "Neutral Bloc", later "Free Voters Schwabach", of which she was first chairman from 1991 to 1997. In 2002 she was made an honorary member of the electoral community.

From 1990 to 2015 she was a board member and advisory board member of the Kneipp association in Schwabach (first chair: 2004 to 2012).

Furthermore, Johanna Ittner advocates equal rights for women in society. In 1992 she was co-founder of the municipal women's commission in her hometown, which was supposed to "contribute to the realization of equality and equal opportunities as well as to the improvement of the situation of women in all areas of society in the city of Schwabach". She worked on this body until 2014.

Ittner was committed to founding the senior citizens' council of the city of Schwabach in 1998, where she first acted as secretary and since 2001 as deputy chairwoman. She was a representative of the Seniors' Council in the Schwabach women's commission. From 2004 she was a member of the Social Policy Committee of the Bavarian State Seniors' Representation.

Association work in housekeeping

Johanna Ittner was committed to social recognition of housekeeping. She endeavored to increase the appreciation for the reproductive work of family women, and their social contribution through the care and care of children and aging family members and for the needs of workers in the household. She was a member of the vocational training committee for 25 years, for which she was the chairman of the northern and Bavarian committees. She worked on the board of various domestic professional associations. She was chairwoman of the Working Group of Evangelical Household Managers (1987 to 1999), the Bavarian State Committee for Housekeeping (1982 to 1986 and 1993 to 1998) and the BLAF Bavarian State Committee for Housekeeping Förderverein (2000 to 2015). Johanna Ittner was Deputy Chairwoman for the Federal Agency for Home Economics in Frankfurt and the Home Economics Working Group in Bonn. In 1999 Johanna Ittner co-founded the Federal Housekeeping Working Group. For this, she accompanied the start of the state-sponsored projects “Consumers Learn to Consume” (2002) and “Tafelfreuden” (2003), which are sponsored by the BLAF-Förderverein, as well as the project “FAST FOOD - SLOW FOOD & MORE” supported by Aktion Mensch ".

Honors

  • In 1987, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker (CDU) awarded Johanna Ittner the Federal Cross of Merit with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her special honorary services to improve the recognition of work done in the family household and the appreciation of domestic services in the field of employment .
  • In 1997, the Bavarian State Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Barbara Stamm (CSU), honored Johanna Ittner's services to vocational training in home economics with a certificate of honor.
  • In addition, Johanna Ittner was honored with the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1999 by the Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber (CSU) as the first and so far only Schwabach citizen .
  • In 2008, the mayor of Schwabach recorded the merits of Johanna Ittner with an entry in the city's book of honor.
  • Many clubs and associations in which Johanna Ittner has chaired for many years have appointed her honorary chairmen.

Works

  • In 1990 Johanna Ittner published the textbook successful book Living and Furnishing in Housekeeping . Holzmann, Bad Wörishofen ISBN 3-7783-0286-8 .
  • Johanna Ittner's multifaceted life was reported in the portrait collection Moving Women's Lives - A Piece of Schwabach Local History .
  • An entry is also dedicated to Johanna Ittner in the Schwabach Historical City Lexicon .
  • Safety in the household , with Petra Dietz and Marianne Hinterbrandner, Aktion Das Sichere Haus, German Board of Trustees for Safety in Home and Leisure, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Dortmund / Munich 1994, DNB 1063653762 .

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  1. a b c d e f Johanna Ittner , schwabach.de
  • Stadtlexikon Schwabach
  • Moving women's lives - a piece of Schwabach home history
  • Success book Living and furnishing in housekeeping
  • Clues, Issue 5, ISSN  0176-9464 .