Lotte Geppert

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Lotte Geppert (born June 21, 1883 in Berlin ; † January 24, 1968 in Munich ) was a German social worker. She founded the Münchener Mütterschule e. V.

Live and act

After attending secondary school, Charlotte Geppert completed her kindergarten teacher training at the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus in Berlin. From 1903 to 1908 she worked as a kindergarten teacher in the kindergarten of the youth home association. At the same time she taught kindergarten pedagogy at the Sprengel'schen women's school in Berlin. This was followed by training as a bookbinder in Munich. After that she was in the service of the Munich 'Institute for Social Work' until the end of the First World War. She was responsible for leading children's courses in handicrafts, courses for girls and mothers in questions of upbringing, for vocational and elementary school teachers in factories and for handicraft teachers in modern pedagogy, in cooperation with Helene Sumper and Georg Kerschensteiner .

From 1919 to 1922 Lotte Geppert taught applied pedagogy at the newly founded Social Women's School in Munich as well as manual skills in all classes of the Heydenaber secondary school in Munich. After she returned to Berlin, she completed the youth leader training there at the seminar of the Jugendheim eV association . Then she moved to Nuremberg, where she played a key role in the establishment and expansion of the remedial kindergarten Sonnengarten . The special kindergarten was created in 1923. The task was to support children of pre-school age, for whom the close cooperation between educator and doctor formed the prerequisite for this success, in the sense of pure kindergarten and not a pre-school level. As early as 1924, she incorporated maternal courses into the facility . The sun garden became a model for similar special educational institutions at home and abroad.

In 1929 Lotte Geppert set up a mothers' school in Vienna , combined with a kindergarten. After the successful establishment of the Viennese institution, she returned to her old job in Nuremberg. When the National Socialists came to power, she emigrated to Switzerland as a “ half-Jew ”. There Lotte Geppert dealt with Friedrich Föbel's pedagogy , gave girls private tuition and held advanced and advanced training courses for parents, doctors and kindergarten teachers on the subject of recording and encouraging infants with weak senses in homes, kindergartens and families . After 1945 she returned to Munich. She taught curative education at the social women's school and at the kindergarten teachers' seminar in Munich . In 1949, the teacher founded the Munich Mütterschule e. V. In 1959 Lotte Geppert resigned as chairwoman of the Münchener Mütterschule e. V. down. She was still actively involved in the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association .

Honors

Fonts

  • Froebel's train of thought in today's mother and parent education , in: Kindergarten 1928, pp. 9–13
  • In memory of Friedrich Froebel, in: Pro Jeventute 1938, pp. 237–240
  • From the intimacy of the mother schools to the “social counseling service”, in: Our children 1955, pp. 13–24
  • together with the psychiatrist Julius Mainzer : Life in the special kindergarten, Munich 1929
  • Maternal school work in the camp and in the women's dormitory, in: Blätter des Pestalozzi-Froebel Association 1956, pp. 89–91
  • The toddler in the wonder world of its metaphysical revelations, in: Blätter des Pestalozzi-Froebel Association 1957, pp. 73–84
  • Are our children afraid of fairy tales ?, in: Blätter des Pestalozzi-Froebel Association 1962, pp. 184–187
  • Fröbel's work for the Karton Bern, Bern / Munich 1976

literature

  • Manfred Berger : Women in the history of the kindergarten, Munich 1995, pp. 45–49
  • Joint family education center Munich e. V. (Ed.): 60 years of FABI. Family education in the mirror of the time 1949 - 2009, Munich 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quoted from Berger 1995, p. 46
  2. ↑ according to Lotte Geppert's CV, archived in the Ida-Seele archive
  3. ↑ quoted from Geppert et al. Mainzer 1919, p. 3
  4. ^ Prospectus: Switzerland. Course on the care and upbringing of toddlers , archived in the Ida-Seele archive
  5. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Geppert, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geppert, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social pedagogue and head of the mothers' school in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1968
Place of death Munich