Magdalene from Tiling

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Magdalene from Tiling

Magdalene Louise Charlotte of tiling (born May 7 . Jul / 19th May  1877 greg. In Bickern (suburb of Riga ); † 28. February 1974 in Munich ) was a German religious educator and politician .

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She was the fourth of twelve children and the oldest of eight daughters of the Lutheran pastor and later cathedral preacher Wilhelm von Tiling and his wife Maria Kupffer. One of her younger sisters was the important Africanist Maria Klingenoben-von Tiling (1886–1974).

In 1888 the family, raised to the Russian nobility in 1866, whose ancestors had lived in the Baltic States since the mid-18th century , moved to the German Empire . The reason for the return to the ancestral homeland was that the head of the family has been since the accession of Tsar Alexander III. (1881) and saw his measures for so-called Russification increasingly threatened because of his school and church activities. For a short time the family lived in Travemünde , then in the village of Leopoldshall in Anhalt.

After completing school at the community school in Staßfurt and at Marienberg Abbey near Helmstedt, she initially worked as a governess, including a year in Switzerland with an English family, because her father had rejected her request for vocational training. When another child was born to her parents, the eldest daughter returned to her parents' house to support the mother in the household and in bringing up the younger siblings.

In 1902 she passed the teacher examination for middle and higher private girls' schools. After that, Tiling taught in Kassel, according to his own statement in ten small higher girls' schools . At the age of 29 she decided to study theology and history , which she needed for the senior teacher examination. She studied in Göttingen and Erlangen. Subsequently, the aristocracy taught history and theology at the municipal Oberlyzeum of Elberfeld . Just one year later, she was given the management of the women's high school there , which also included a kindergarten teacher training seminar. Associated with this was the award of the title Ms. Superior .

In 1925 she met the theologian Friedrich Gogarten . There was intensive collaboration and debate between the two of them in the border areas of education and theology.

At a DNVP party conference in Königsberg, from left: Elsa Hielscher-Panten , Else von Sperber , Annagrete Lehmann , behind them Magdalene von Tiling, Margarete Behm , behind them Therese Deutsch , Helene Freifrau von Watter , Paula Müller-Otfried , behind them Ulrike Scheidel (around 1928)

In 1934 she was appointed to the State Augusta School in Berlin as a teacher. Four years later, Tiling was retired.

In addition to her work as matron and student councilor, she was active as a writer and politician. As a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP), she was initially a city councilor in Elberfeld from 1919 to 1921 . After running for multiple candidacies, she became a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1921 to 1930 . The politician specialized in aspects of school politics and vigorously represented the church's standpoint on questions of family and marriage legislation.

In 1930 she went to the German Reichstag for "constituency 22 (Düsseldorf East)" . Together with Anna-Margarete Lehmann and Paula Müller-Otfried , Tiling was one of three female members of the German Nationalists. When Gertrud Bäumer resigned from her position as ministerial advisor and assistant in the Prussian Ministry of Culture , the noblewoman hoped to succeed her. But things turned out differently: Immediately after Hitler came to power, their party was abolished.

The religious educator received an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Rostock in 1926 for her services to the church and for her scientific writings .

From 1916 to 1939 she was chairwoman of the Association of Protestant Religious Teachers (since 1931 Association for Protestant Religious Education and Pedagogy ). The organ of the association was the magazine Schule und Evangelium , published since 1926 , Tiling was responsible for the editing. Furthermore, she was chairwoman of the Association of Evangelical Women's Associations in Germany from 1923 and in 1931 she founded the Arbeitsbund für scientific pedagogy , of which she was the second chairwoman.

Tiling was of the opinion that women and men each have a special "intrinsic value". As a Lutheran , she called for a new creation theological conception of gender relations in Protestantism . In doing so, she rejected the evangelical women's movement's call for women to be admitted to the pastoral profession as unfeminine (cf. Tiling 1919, p. 17 ff.). On the one hand, she advocated the emancipation of women, on the other hand, she supported the National Socialist concept of upbringing, according to which the girls were to be prepared for their special mother role. When the Nazis came to power, Tiling was keen to help shape National Socialist school policy. In the magazine Schule und Evangelium , for example, she demanded that all school education and teaching recognize and cultivate national and popular education ... German custom, German culture should be alive in schools (Tiling 1932/1933, p. 296). In principle, however, Tiling was opposed to National Socialism, which she accused of self-idolatry, of clinging to an idealistic image of man and of godlessness.

From 1945 to the mid-1950s she was a lecturer at the Evangelical Johannesstift in Berlin-Spandau. She also taught at the Social Women's School of the Inner Mission and in the catechist training of the Berlin Church.

Magdalene von Tiling, who was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957, died in Munich at the age of 96.

Works (selection)

  • The meaning of baptism , Elberfeld 1926
  • The Church and the Woman , Berlin 1919
  • On the girls' school reform. The German secondary school , Berlin 1921
  • Evangelical women's movement , Berlin 1924
  • The relationship between the sexes , Berlin 1925
  • From better justice. Explanations of the Sermon on the Mount , Stuttgart 1926
  • The state and Christian education , in: Schule und Evangelium, 1932/1933
  • The ages in human life , Stuttgart 1936
  • We and our children. A pedagogy of the ages for Protestant educators in the family, home and school , Stuttgart 1955

Literature (selection)

  • Liesel-Lotte Herkenrath: Politics, Theology and Education. Studies on Magdalene von Tiling's pedagogy , Heidelberg 1972
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Gury Schneider-Ludorff: Magdalene von Tiling (1877-1974). Pedagogy and Gender Relations, in: Annebelle Pithan (Ed.): Religious Pedagogues of the 20th Century , Göttingen / Zurich 1997, pp. 20–39
  • Gury Schneider-Ludorff: Magdalene von Tiling: Theology of Order and Gender Relations , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2001
  • Manfred Berger :  Magdalene von Tiling. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 29, Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6 , Sp. 1433-1445.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the municipality of Bickern (Latvian: Biķernieki)
  2. ↑ In 1910 she entered the Evangelical Lutheran Church. St. Petri Parish Elberfeld and thus into the Evangelical Lutheran (Old Lutheran) Church . (Volker Stolle: One takes everything from the Christian non-Aryans, Münsteraner Judaistische Studien Vol. 22, LIT-Verlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-8258-0901-0 , p. 29, A.24)
  3. ^ Gury Schneider-Ludorff: Magdalene von Tiling. Order theology and gender relations . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 246 .
personal data
SURNAME Tiling, Magdalene of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tiling, Magdalene Louise Charlotte by (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious educator, politician (DNVP), MdR, writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Bickern near Riga
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1974
Place of death Munich