Leontine Hagmaier

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Leontine Sofie Emilie Karoline Hagmaier (born February 17, 1862 in Krautheim an der Jagst ; † August 8/9, 1931 in Eckwälden, today Bad Boll ) was the first senior teacher in Württemberg and headmistress of the first Württemberg high school for girls.

Life

Leontine Hagmaier was born as the oldest of seven children. She attended elementary school in Neustadt / Black Forest and Messkirch from 1868 to 1876. At the age of ten she received private Latin lessons and was sent to live with relatives in Stuttgart. In 1880 she passed the Abitur at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart and was thus the first high school graduate in Baden-Württemberg and probably also in Germany. She then began to attend private seminars for teachers, passed the higher examination for teachers in 1882 and then went to Strasbourg for three years, where she worked as the housekeeper for the Count von Solms family. After this experience, she took her first job as a teacher. Her first teaching position was from 1885 to 1887 in Strasbourg, where she taught as a class teacher in the middle and upper classes of the private girls' secondary school "Bon Pasteur". She then became a tutor for a French family residing in France and Nice. After two years she took up a teaching position and an educator position in England. In 1890 she founded a private girls' school in Altkirch and in the same year took over the management of the Prieser boarding school until 1912. In 1899 Gertrud Schwend founded the first Württemberg girls' grammar school at Kronenstrasse 41 in Stuttgart. After the death of Gertrud Schwend, Leontine Hagmaier took over the management of the girls' high school in 1901 and held it until 1929. In 1904 the first four girls from the girls' high school successfully passed their Abitur. These first four high school graduates were enrolled as regular students at the University of Tübingen by royal decree. In 1909 the girls' high school got a new name, first "Queen Charlotte High School for Girls" and in 1837 the Hölderlin Oberschule for girls . The building in which the school was located at the time the school was renamed became too small and so in 1909 the Hölderlin Oberschule für Mädchen moved into the newly built school building at Hölderlinstrasse 29. At the time of this move, the school already had around 100 students. In the course of Hagmaier's retirement, there was a ceremony on March 13, 1929.

Hagmaier was appointed senior director of studies in 1924, making her the first woman in Germany to hold this title.

Leontine Hagmaier had never married in her entire life, otherwise she would have had to give up her job. At that time, women were dismissed from the civil service after marriage and had to stay at home. Although Leontine Hagmaier worked all her life, she did not get rich and did not have a lot of money to spend in her retirement.

She died of a heart attack and was buried in the forest cemetery in Stuttgart on August 12, 1931 , and was soon forgotten.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Library Service Center Baden-Württemberg: Information on the most important library donors and their significance for the grammar school ; accessed on Nov. 11, 2017
  2. ^ A b Baden-Württemberg State Archives: Hagmaier, Leontine Sofie Emilie Karoline . Retrieved November 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hagmaier, Leontine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagmaier, Leontine Sofie Emilie Karoline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, first senior teacher in Württemberg and headmistress of the first Württemberg high school for girls
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Krautheim (Jagst)
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1931 or August 9, 1931
Place of death Eckwälden, today to Bad Boll