Lina Hilger

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Lina Hilger (born March 8, 1874 in Kaiserslautern , † March 13, 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German educator.

Life

Lina Hilger was born as the third child of a family in the Palatinate. Her father, Ludwig Hilger, was the head of the rent office of the Catholic Church. The mother, Augusta Hilger (née Eberts) came from a family of teachers and theologians and trained as a singer.

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After attending a private girls' school, Lina Hilger passed her matriculation examination in Bad Kreuznach, where her mother had since moved. She attended the teachers' seminar in Koblenz , where in 1893 she passed the teacher examination for secondary and middle schools for girls. She spent a year in England and France for study purposes . In 1899 she attended educational courses in Bonn , where she was also enrolled as a guest student at the university. There she was involved in the founding of the "Nameless Club" (from 1904 "Hilaritas").

In 1901 she took on a teaching position at a girls' school in Bonn. In 1903 she was entrusted with the management of the municipal girls' school in Bad Kreuznach . In spring 1933, the NSDAP district leadership applied for her early retirement because of anti- National Socialist sentiments. She anticipated her release through her own application for retirement, which she submitted on May 19, 1933, after the Hitler Youth had burned books in the schoolyard at noon that day .

After leaving school in 1935, Lina Hilger and her partner Elsbeth Krukenberg-Conze withdrew to the remoteness of the Black Forest, where she succumbed to cancer in 1942.

One of the three grammar schools in Bad Kreuznach was named after her.

literature

  • Margot Pottlitzer-Strauss: Lina Hilger. A picture of life, Bad Kreuznach 1961.
  • Lina Hilger. In: Claus Bernet : Quakers from politics, science and art. A biographical lexicon. 2nd enlarged and improved edition. Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-469-4 , pp. 83-85.
  • Horst Silbermann: Bad Kreuznach. May 19, 1933 in the schoolyards of the grammar school and the lyceum. In: Julius H. Schoeps, Werner Treß (ed.): Places of the book burnings in Germany 1933. Hildesheim 2008, pp. 29–41.

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personal data
SURNAME Hilger, Lina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1942
Place of death Frankfurt am Main