Margarete Dörr

Margarete Dörr (* May 22, 1928 in Libau ; † May 25, 2014 in Oberstenfeld ) was a German history teacher and since her retirement, a freelance historian . She was a history teacher at a grammar school and head of history at the seminars for student trainees in Heilbronn and Stuttgart as well as a lecturer at the University of Stuttgart .

Live and act

As a Baltic German , Margarete Dörr, her parents and siblings came to Ludwigsburg from Latvia in 1940 as part of the Nazi campaign Home to the Reich . Here she attended the Goethe-Gymnasium, where Jenny Heymann , who had just returned from emigration, was one of her teachers. Two years after the war, Margarete Dörr graduated from the Goethe-Gymnasium. After studying history, German and English from 1948 to 1954, Margarete Dörr obtained her doctorate at the University of Mainz. phil. and taught from 1960 to 1966 at the Goethe-Gymnasium for girls in Ludwigsburg. From 1966 to 1988 she was first in Stuttgart and then in Heilbronn as the history director at the seminar for trainee students . In 1973 she was given a teaching position for history didactics at the University of Stuttgart . Dörr worked with her colleague Heinz Dieter Schmid in Tübingen to develop a new understanding of high school history teaching , which rejects the purely narrative teaching method and only reproductive learning and promotes independent, research-oriented and student-centered teaching. This was particularly evident in the chapters on the French Revolution and on Soviet history in the history book Questions to History, published by Schmid .

Prizes and awards

• In 2000 she was named Woman of the Year by the Association of German Citizens . The reasoning states: Prof. Margarete Dörr, with her historical work on the everyday life of women during National Socialism and the Second World War, she made outstanding contributions to the concerns of women.
• In 2001 she was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit .

Works

• The war has shaped us. How children experienced the Second World War. Campus, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 3-593-38447-7 .
• "Who has not seen the time ..."
  • Volume 1: Women's experiences in World War II and the years after. ISBN 978-3-593-38561-7 .
  • Volume 2: Everyday Warfare. ISBN 978-3-593-38562-4 .
  • Volume 3: The relationship to National Socialism and the war. 2nd Edition. Campus, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38563-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Margarete Dörr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Margarete Dörr  in the German Digital Library

References and comments

1. ^ Memories from Margarete Dörr to Jenny Heymann
2. ↑ Margarete Dörr's childhood memories
3. ^ Margarete Dörr: The St. Mariengredenstift in Mainz. History, Law and Property. Inaugural dissertation, Univ. Mainz 1953.
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