Johanna Küstner

Johanna Fröbel, née Küstner (* probably 1820 ; † 1888 ) was responsible for the management of the Hamburg university for women together with her husband Karl Friedrich Fröbel .

Life

youth

Johanna Küstner was the daughter of a school principal and in 1848/49 a pupil of Friedrich Froebel in Dresden. She attended a teachers 'and educators' meeting in Rudolstadt and her speech there caused a stir, as she campaigned for the ability of women to study philosophy . This opinion caused a sensation among the mostly male attendees.

Marriage to Karl Froebel

As part of her apprenticeship with Friedrich Froebel, she met and fell in love with his nephew Karl . The two apparently married in 1849.

The university project

Together with her husband, Johanna Fröbel moved to Hamburg to head the "University for Women", which opened on January 1, 1850. Johanna took on the role of pension manager. She initially worked as a free wife until she complained in January 1851 that she “... had devoted a year to my work for free in order to facilitate the establishment of the institute. the only thing I have in my fortune, my silver, etc. lent my laundry to the institution ”. Then she received an employment contract and 300 Courant Mark wages per year.

Johanna's original ideas concerning the students at the university turned out to be incorrect over time. While she had envisioned playing a pension mother for young girls around the age of 15, she quickly realized that most of the learners were young women in their 30s like themselves. For unknown reasons, Johanna had to die for some time Leaving college. Either she had started a cure herself after a severe pregnancy, or she accompanied an underage student to the cure. During this time, Malwida von Meysenbug , four years older than Johanna, took over her position at the university and due to the support she received from Emilie Wüstenfeld , a competitive situation developed between the two women. The Froebel couple could soon no longer ignore many apparently private disputes and therefore said goodbye to the university in 1852, which was closed that same year.

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^ Letter from Friedrich Froebel to Luise Levin from March 2–3. February 1849 ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "To Carl Fröbel in Zurich - who brought Johanne Küstner to his wife here". In a letter a few weeks earlier ( Friedrich Fröbel to Luise Levin from January 15-20, 1849 ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and Archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ) The two are named together, but still without any reference to an imminent marriage. In 1848 Friedrich Fröbel referred to Johanna Küstner as a “virgin” ( Friedrich Fröbel to Elise Fröbe, 23 November 1848 ( memento of the original from 9 May 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original - and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note .; December 21, 1848 ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ), so she was not yet married. On August 28, 1849 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. wrote Friedrich Froebel to “Meine l. Niece Johanna Froebel ”. Inaccurate the presentation by Eduard Spranger , The Idea of a College for Women and the Women's Movement , Leipzig 1916, p. 28, that Karl Fröbel and his wife Johanna "founded a kind of rural education home near Zurich", so the two married in 1845 would have been. @1@ 2 @1@ 2 @1@ 2 @1@ 2 @1@ 2
^ Elke Kleinau: Education and Gender. A social history of the higher girls' school system in Germany from Vormärz to the Third Reich . Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim 1997, p. 73.
^ Elke Kleinau: Education and Gender. A social history of the higher girls' school system in Germany from Vormärz to the Third Reich . Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim 1997, p. 87.

personal data
SURNAME	Küstner, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Froebel, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German university director
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: 1820
DATE OF DEATH	1888

[1] Letter from Friedrich Froebel to Luise Levin from March 2–3. February 1849 ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "To Carl Fröbel in Zurich - who brought Johanne Küstner to his wife here". In a letter a few weeks earlier ( Friedrich Fröbel to Luise Levin from January 15-20, 1849 ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and Archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ) The two are named together, but still without any reference to an imminent marriage. In 1848 Friedrich Fröbel referred to Johanna Küstner as a “virgin” ( Friedrich Fröbel to Elise Fröbe, 23 November 1848 ( memento of the original from 9 May 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original - and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note .; December 21, 1848 ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ), so she was not yet married. On August 28, 1849 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. wrote Friedrich Froebel to “Meine l. Niece Johanna Froebel ”. Inaccurate the presentation by Eduard Spranger , The Idea of a College for Women and the Women's Movement , Leipzig 1916, p. 28, that Karl Fröbel and his wife Johanna "founded a kind of rural education home near Zurich", so the two married in 1845 would have been. @1@ 2 @1@ 2 @1@ 2 @1@ 2 @1@ 2

[2] Elke Kleinau: Education and Gender. A social history of the higher girls' school system in Germany from Vormärz to the Third Reich . Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim 1997, p. 73.

[3] Elke Kleinau: Education and Gender. A social history of the higher girls' school system in Germany from Vormärz to the Third Reich . Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim 1997, p. 87.