Magda Boettner

Magda Böttner , completely Marie Sophie Magdalene Böttner , called Magda , (born June 3, 1858 in Bremen , † October 31, 1937 in Bremen) was a German educator and women's rights activist .

biography

Böttner was the youngest daughter of the teacher Johann Böttner and his wife Marie Hedwig Böttner. She attended elementary school and the secondary school for girls in Meta Luce. She learned home economics and then from 1878 to 1880 she trained as a teacher in the Bremen teachers' seminar from August Kippenberg and Johanne Kippenberg . She was one of the first teachers to be hired by the Bremen Senate in 1881.

From 1898 to 1906 she was chairwoman of the Association of Bremen Teachers (VBL) founded in 1889 . From 1906 she headed the Pestalozzi-Froebel Commission in the VBL , with which the approaches of the reform pedagogue Fritz Gansberg were continued. She was a member of the Frauenstadtbund founded and led by Verena Rodewald in Bremen as well as the Goethebund and the Association for University Courses . She often took part in the delegates ' meetings of the General German Teachers' Association (ADLV, forerunner of the Education and Science Union (GEW)). She participated with the VBL in 1901/02 in campaigns to raise teachers' salaries, in 1905 for the abolition of religious education and against the dismissal of social democratic teachers. In 1905 she prepared the 9th ADLV delegates' meeting in Bremen. She gave lectures on reform pedagogy in 23 cities, including at the 1909 conference of the German Froebel Association in Magdeburg .

In 1913 she and Anna Vietor were the first women to take part in the work of the debtors ' council as advisory members . For the girls' elementary school of the Michaelis School, she achieved reform pedagogical changes. The aim of her pedagogy was to combine learning with happiness in school: Here - according to Böttner - “it is a matter of applying iron diligence, coupled with iron energy” and “iron consistency”.

She campaigned for equal rights for women, fought for equal salaries, against the so-called celibacy of civil servants and for women's right to vote . At lectures she appeared as a speaker alongside Minna Bahnson and Helene Neesen. In 1904 she spoke at the International Council of Women and at the International Women's Congress in Berlin , in 1908 as a member of the German delegation at the women's suffrage congress in Amsterdam , in 1909 at a congress in London and in 1911 in Stockholm . This made her one of the important women in the Bremen women's movement . In 1924 she retired and then lived in St. Rembertistift .

Works

• Marie Böttner, Emma Vöhl: Happy lessons . A contribution to the labor school at the lower level : vividness of learning and the active implementation of what has been learned, Leipzig 1921.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Romina Schmitter: Böttner, Marie Sophie Magdalena, called Magda . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Hinrich Wulff : History and face of the Bremen teaching staff . Bremen 1950.

Web link

• Women's museum, portrait