Maria Beyerle

Maria Beyerle

Maria Anna Beyerle (born August 21, 1882 in Konstanz ; † December 18, 1968 there ) was a German educator and politician ( Zentrum , BCSV , CDU ).

Life

Maria Beyerle was born as the daughter of the Konstanz lawyer Karl Beyerle. She had four brothers, including the legal scholar and central politician Konrad Beyerle and the legal historian Franz Beyerle .

After attending elementary school and the secondary school for girls ( Klosterschule Zoffingen ), Beyerle attended the teachers ' seminar from 1898 to 1900 , which she completed with the first teacher examination. She then attended the St. Joseph boarding school in Ferney-Voltaire ( Switzerland ) until 1901 . In 1902 she passed the second teacher examination. From 1904 to 1906 she worked as a private teacher with Count Clemens Heidenreich Droste zu Vischering , from 1906 to 1907 as an assistant teacher at the secondary school for girls in Freiburg im Breisgau, and from 1907 to 1908 as an assistant teacher in Neckargemünd . She then took part in lectures at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg as a guest student and prepared for the Abitur, which she passed in 1910.

Beyerle worked as a teacher in Konstanz-Petershausen from 1911 to 1925 and was promoted to main teacher in 1919. From 1925 to 1928 she worked as a teacher at a training school in Konstanz. In 1928 she became the rector of the girls' training school in Freiburg. In the same year, and again from 1929 to 1932, she worked as a teacher teaching methodology at the teacher training institute in Freiburg. In 1932 she took up a position as rector at the girls ' advanced training school in Karlsruhe , until in 1933 she switched to the girls' high school in Konstanz as a teacher . In 1935, she took early retirement for health reasons.

In addition to her professional activity, Beyerle was involved in Catholic organizations. She had been chairwoman of the Catholic German Women's Association (KDFB) in Konstanz since 1910 , where she founded the Association of Catholic German Women Teachers (VkdL) in 1914 and was elected chairwoman of the Badischer VkdL Association. She also joined the Center Party, for which she sat from 1919 to 1925 and from 1926 to 1928 as a member of the state parliament of the Republic of Baden .

After the Second World War , Beyerle became politically active again and joined the BCSV, which later became the CDU regional association in South Baden. She was city ​​councilor in Konstanz from 1946 to 1948 and was elected as a member of the Baden state parliament in 1947 , to which she belonged until it was dissolved in 1952. During her time as a parliamentarian, she advocated the founding of the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg .

Honors

• Pontifical Cross of Honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice , 1964

literature

• Landtag of Baden-Württemberg (ed.): MdL, The Members of the Landtag in Baden-Württemberg 1946–1978 , Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-911930-2 , p. 99
• Clemens Siebler: Maria Anna Beyerle , in: Baden-Württembergische Biographien . Volume 1, pp. 23–24 ( online )

Web links

• Speeches by Maria Beyerle in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek