Johanna Lürssen
Berta Johanna Lürssen (born December 27, 1881 in Delmenhorst ; † March 3, 1966 in Bremen ) was a German teacher and high school councilor in Bremen.
biography
Lürssen was the daughter of a manufacturer from Delmenhorst. She attended a teacher training institute in Wolfenbüttel and taught as a private teacher in Blankenburg (Harz) . Then, after studying in England , she graduated from high school and studied German, English and mathematics at the University of Munich and the University of Marburg until 1916 . She obtained her doctorate in 1915. phil. During the First World War , she taught in Blankenburg and Frankfurt am Main . From 1917 she lived in Bremen and taught at the Lyceum Kleine Helle in Bremen. In 1926 she took over the management of the girls' high school in Karlstrasse . In 1932 she became a school councilor for the secondary school system for girls. She was the first woman in such a leading position in the Bremen education system. In 1934, the National Socialists relocated the liberal teacher from this prominent position. She taught as a teacher at the Kleine Helle school .
After the Second World War, the Senate reappointed her as school councilor on July 6, 1945 and promoted her to high school councilor in 1946. In 1950 she retired. She was also closely associated with the German women's movement . Lürssen was already connected to the Bremen women's movement during the Weimar Republic .
As chairwoman of the Bremen Association of Women Philologists, she was also on the board of the Bremen Teachers 'Association and was also a member of the General German Teachers' Association. From 1956 to 1958 Lürssen was chairwoman of the German Association of Women Academics . In 1951 she was actively involved in the re-establishment of the federal government after the war and successfully re-established in the International Association of Women Academics .
Her sister was the educator and liberal politician Elisabeth Lürssen .
Works
- A Middle High German paraphrase of the Song of Songs ; Olms Verlag, Breslau 1917. Reprint: Hildesheim 1977, ISBN 978-3487062037
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Michaela Kuhnhenne: Women's models and education in the West German post-war period , publishing house for social sciences.
- Elisabeth Hannover-Drück: Lürssen, Berta Johanna . In: Bremer Frauenmuseum - portraits of women , Bremen.
- Elisabeth Hannover-Drück : Lürssen, Berta Johanna . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
Web links
- Bremen Women's Museum - Lürssen, Berta Johanna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bärbel Maul: Academics in the post-war period excerpts from Google Books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lürssen, Johanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Delmenhorst |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1966 |
| Place of death | Bremen |