Lili Droescher

Lili Droescher (born April 10, 1871 in Asslar , † April 10, 1944 in Thorn ) was a German social worker, teacher and kindergarten teacher.

Live and act

Elisabeth (Lili) Droescher received private tuition, followed by attending secondary school for girls and a girls' boarding school. At the age of 16 she went to the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus to train as a kindergarten teacher. Lili Droescher then completed the newly established advanced training class at the same facility and became a teacher. As such, she worked for a short time at a girls' boarding school in Wolfenbüttel , which was founded by Henriette Schrader-Breymann . Lili Droescher brought her , the founder and director of the Pestalozzi-Froebel House , back to her former training center in 1893. There she worked as a teacher and ran the school from 1889. Finally, in 1913, Lili Droescher took over the overall management, later together with Hildegard von Gierke , of the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus I. In 1934, under pressure from the National Socialists, she had to relinquish responsibility for the socio-educational institution.

When her Berlin apartment was in ruins, the teacher moved to live with relatives in Thorn, where she died on the day of her 73rd birthday.

Lili Droescher was actively involved in the German Froebel Association , of which she was first chairman from 1923 to 1934. She was also active as a writer, especially for Friedrich Froebel and the kindergarten . Regarding the kindergarten institution, she was of the opinion that it should only be a makeshift, these children from a functioning family would not need. Quote:

As experience teaches us, kindergartens and similar institutions are a necessity in our social conditions today; they are a makeshift, and if conditions could change at one stroke, so that every child was entitled to a mother and a warm, protective home, then with an unprejudiced view of people and life no one would be in favor of a public education center for small children enter. Froebel once said of his educational institution: 'We are working towards making ourselves unnecessary.' Everyone understands this saying .

Fonts

• The concentration of educational material in kindergarten, in: Kindergarten 1899 / H. 1, pp. 11-14, H. 2, pp. 27-31, H. 3, pp. 46-51
• The concentration substance in the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus, in: Kindergarten 1904, / H. 2, pp. 14-18
• Froebel and his work: The Kindergarten, Leipzig 1907
• Von der Kinderseele, Voigtländers Verlag Leipzig, 1908, together with Gertrud Bäumer
• The social women's school in Berlin: in: Kindergarten 1910 / H. 3, pp. 66-74
• Activities in the home, in: The Pathfinder Book for Young Girls 1912, pp. 9–28
• Women's schools and kindergarten teacher training, in: Die Lehrerin 1919 / H. 5, pp. 33-36
• The child in the house, Leipzig / Berlin 1920
• The kindergarten as the substructure of the standard school, Berlin 1920
• Froebel in the Pestalozzi-Froebel House through the ages, in: Kindergarten 1927 / H. 5, pp. 171-177

literature

• Manfred Berger : Women in the history of the kindergarten, Frankfurt / Main 1995, pp. 35–39
• Manfred Berger: Lili Doescher died 50 years ago , in: Our Youth , 1994 / Heft 4, pp. 176–177
• Gerlinde Grobe: Lili Droescher - A life for the education of kindergarten teachers and for the kindergarten institution , Frankfurt / Main (unpublished diploma thesis)
• Erika Hoffmann:  Droescher, Lili. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 127 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Manfred Berger : Droescher, Elisabeth , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 148f.

Web links

• http://www.kindergartenpaedagogik.de/173.html

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Droescher 1907, p. 17 f