Margarete Treuge

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Margarete Treuge (born August 4, 1876 in Elbing ; † March 2, 1962 in Hamburg ) was a German educator and women's rights activist .

Live and act

Since both parents died early, Margarete Treuge spent childhood and youth with her grandparents. In her place of birth, Elbing, she completed a commercial college and a teacher training seminar. She then taught at girls' schools in Gdansk for several years and received a university entrance qualification. From 1900 she studied German and history to become a teacher in senior teacher courses in Berlin . From 1904 she taught at a Berlin lyceum. She also took part in the work of the General German Teachers' Association and, from 1910, edited its magazine Die Lehrerin . In 1908 she was given a teaching position at the social women's school . Since there was almost no suitable literature, Treuge wrote sections of the Political Manual for Women and the Introduction to Citizenship Studies in 1909 . A textbook for women's schools that quickly became standard teaching aids .

On the initiative of her friend Gertrud Bäumer , Treuge was offered a position in Hamburg in April 1918. Together with Marie Baum, Treuge managed the dual institution of the social women's school / social pedagogical institute , which was housed in a general lecture building. The facility wanted, among other things, to enable unmarried and childless women to do social and educational work. Treuge was the only full-time employee and teacher there. In Hamburg she lived with her younger sister, who took care of the household.

In 1919 Bäumer and Baum left Hamburg and concentrated on their political activities for the DDP . Margarete Treuge took over the management of the educational institution in 1920, which was incorporated into Hamburg's public education system in 1923. Treuge continued her work as a student councilor on behalf of the city. The previously existing sponsoring association of the dual institution now functioned as an association of friends and alumni. Treuge suggested using association funds to close gaps in the budget and to promote the creativity of the institution, which soon threatened to lose its peculiarities due to the administrative management.

In 1927 the educational institution moved into its own premises on Mittelweg . Since job opportunities in the social and care sector were seen as comparatively promising despite tight public funds, Treuge had many female students. Since the state increasingly took on social tasks, Treuge should now also train men for social professions, against which she initially protested. She herself saw the task of the Social Pedagogical Institute to transfer the supposedly women-specific "motherliness" into respected professions.

Memorial stone
in the women's garden

Treuge, who joined the DDP after the First World War , in which she held no offices or mandates, made an ideological turn towards German conservatism with the originally left-wing liberal party. The pedagogue admitted to "allied" goals and took the view that many young women should join the "great fighting front of like-minded men". Her political views did not use her after the seizure of power . Treuge had to switch to an elementary school and retire in 1934. The National Socialists rededicated the Social Pedagogical Institute to a “people's care school” run by men.

During the Second World War , Treuge and her sister lost their apartment in a bomb hit in 1943. After the end of the war, she became involved in the Hamburger Frauenring and headed the press committee in particular. For a short time she taught at the re-established social pedagogical institute. She died in Hamburg in March 1962. Today a stone in the women's garden at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery commemorates the former pedagogue and women's rights activist.

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  1. ↑ according to the website for the women's garden on April 2, 1962, to be found there as "Margaretha Treuge"
  2. ↑ Margaretha Treuge on the homepage of the women's garden. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Faithful, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1962
Place of death Hamburg