Jutta Rudiger

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Jutta Rüdiger around 1937

Jutta Rüdiger (born June 14, 1910 in Berlin ; † March 13, 2001 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German psychologist and from 1937 to 1945 Reich Secretary of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) in the Reich Youth Leadership (RJF) Berlin and one of the three presidents of the European youth associations.

Life

The daughter of a senior engineer passed her high school diploma in Düsseldorf in 1929 and studied psychology, philosophy and economics at the University of Würzburg from 1930 . In 1931 she joined the National Socialist German Student Union and in 1932 founded the National Socialist Student Union (ANSt). In May 1933 she completed her studies. In 1934 she was at Karl Marbe with the work: "The reminder phrase in the development from infant to five year-old child also contribute to the personality description younger children" graduated .

From 1933 to 1935, Rüdiger was a specialist psychologist and assistant at the Institute for Work and Occupational Research of the Rhine Province in Düsseldorf . In 1933 she moved from the ANSt to the BDM, first as a squad leader, then as a ring leader. In 1934 she became head of the department for ideological training and culture of the BDM district of Düsseldorf and then of the Upper Ruhr-Lower Rhine region. In June 1935 she became a full-time head of staff in the Obergau Ruhr-Niederrhein region, in October 1935 she became a senior manager and from October 1936 an inspection officer in the Reich Youth Leadership . In 1937 she became the special representative of the Reichsreferentin Trude Mohr and joined the NSDAP , after failed attempts since 1933. From 1937 to 1945 she acted as Reichsreferentin of the BDM and was thus the highest BDM leader of the Reich Youth Leadership in Berlin. In addition, from 1942 she headed the BDM organization Faith and Beauty . In 1943 she published the book Germanic Youth .

Rüdiger was one of three presidents (Italy and Spain) of the European youth associations. On December 4, 1944, together with the Reichsfrauenführer Gertrud Scholtz-Klink , she wrote an appeal in which she called on women to give more military aid: Today, when every able-bodied German man faces his fatherland, we women and girls want to do everything to help soldiers of the home area to allow the frontline operation completely.

In mid-1945 Jutta Rüdiger, who was hiding near Zell am See , was arrested together with Melita Maschmann and initially interned in Ludwigsburg women's camp 77. In total, she spent two and a half years in US and British internment . Your denazification process was never completed.

In 1948 she founded a psychological practice in Düsseldorf and worked as a child and youth psychologist. After finishing her career, she worked for years as a journalist for the historical rehabilitation of the BDM. In this context, she wrote, among other things, the book The Hitler Youth and their self-image as reflected in their areas of responsibility .

She was a member of the Association for the Preservation of the German Language .

Rüdiger lived from 1940 to 1991 in a relationship with her colleague Hedy Böhmer. She died at the age of 90 in Bad Reichenhall from the side effects of her progressive Parkinson's disease .

Fonts

  • The Association of German Girls in the Hitler Youth. Idea and shape . Berlin 1934.
  • The Association of German Girls. A correction . ASKANIA Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Lindhorst, 1984, ISBN 3-921730-14-7
  • On the problem of women soldiers. The combat use of anti-aircraft gun helpers in World War II. Reports and documentation. (Ed.) ASKANIA Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Lindhorst, 1987, ISBN 3-921 730-20-1
  • The Hitler Youth and their self-image as reflected in their areas of responsibility . Verlag Siegfried Bublies , Schnellbach 1998, ISBN 3-926584-38-6
  • A life for the youth: girl leader in the Third Reich , Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft , Preußisch Oldendorf 1999 ISBN 3-920722-58-2

literature

  • Horst Gundlach: Rüdiger, Jutta . In: Uwe Wolfradt, Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha and Armin Stock (eds.): German-speaking psychologists 1933-1945. An encyclopedia of persons, supplemented by a text by Erich Stern. Springer, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 9783658014803 , pp. 381–383.
  • Sabine Hering :  Rüdiger, Jutta. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 214 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
  • Jacques R. Pauwels: Women, Nazis, and Universities. Female University Students in the Third Reich, 1933-1945 , Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, and London, 1984.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 500.
  2. ↑ Horst Gundlach: The psychologist Dr. Jutta Rüdiger: A career . Report Psychologie 38 (6), 254-258 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Rüdiger, Jutta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and BDM Reichsreferentin
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2001
Place of death Bad Reichenhall