Maria Bidlingmaier

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Maria Caroline Bidlingmaier (born March 31, 1882 in Lauffen am Neckar , † January 22, 1917 in Stuttgart ) was a German political scientist and peasant researcher. Her dissertation on the situation of rural women in Württemberg , published in 1918, is considered to be a “social-scientific-cultural-historical 'classic”, scientifically moved “between political science and folklore ” and was reissued in 1990 and 1993 in a commented version.

Life

Maria Bidlingmaier was born as one of six children of Maria Bidlingmaier (née Wöhr) and her husband Christoph Bidlingmaier in Lauffen am Neckar. The father was a schoolmaster, later a senior teacher and principal of the elementary school in Lauffen, which Maria also attended. All six children of the family were able to study, her sister medicine, her brother Friedrich became a geophysicist and south polar explorer.

In October 1901 she took up a position at the school in Nordheim as a “newly examinated teacher training candidate” , which she held until April 1906. She then attended the secondary school in Heilbronn to take her Abitur there. This was followed by studies at the Faculty of Political Science in Munich, Freiburg and Tübingen. One of her professors was Carl Johannes Fuchs , who was a connoisseur of rural and rural conditions, which is probably due to the fact that Bidlingmaier, as a political scientist, chose a "rural woman topic" for her doctorate, which she submitted in 1915. She was the first woman to do her doctorate on a “women's issue” at Fuchs. Using two economically and socially very different villages, Bidlingmaier examined how rationalization in agriculture had an impact on the lives of women farmers - housekeeping, rural living conditions, the social situation of children. The concept was based on Max Weber . Among other things, she came to the conclusion that the use of agricultural machinery mainly affects "male" areas of direct production, while "female" tasks on a farm, which require more skill, benefit less from the use of machinery.

The time after her doctorate - in the middle of the First World War - is poorly documented, she was probably active in Berlin “in the war organization”, possibly as an employee in the central purchasing community . Bidlingmaier did not live to see the publication of her dissertation because she died in January 1917 of severe pneumonia ("exhaustion, rheumatoid arthritis , pneumonia, fever") in the Olga hospital in Stuttgart .

plant

  • The farmer in two communities in Württemberg . (Dissertation Tübingen 1915, with a foreword by Carl Johannes Fuchs) (=  Tübinger Staatswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen . NF, H. 17). Berlin Stuttgart Leipzig 1918 (Kohlhammer).

expenditure

  • The farmer in two communities in Württemberg . (with an afterword, notes and references by Christel Köhle-Hezinger as well as a documentary appendix) (=  Tübinger Staatswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen . NF, H. 17). Reprint of the edition [Stuttgart], [Kohlhammer], 1918 edition. Schweier, Kirchheim / Teck 1990, ISBN 3-921829-30-5 .
  • The farmer in two communities in Württemberg . (with an afterword, notes and references by Christel Köhle-Hezinger as well as a documentary appendix) (=  Tübinger Staatswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen . NF, H. 17). Reprint of the edition [Stuttgart], [Kohlhammer], 1918 edition. Schweier, Kirchheim / Teck 1993, ISBN 3-921829-30-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Personal database of the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg. February 4, 2015, accessed December 30, 2019 .
  2. ^ Maria Bidlingmaier. In: fembio.org. Accessed December 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Sigrid Jacobeit: The farmer's wife in two communities in Württemberg. With a foreword by Carl Johannes Fuchs, afterword, notes and references by Christel Köhle-Henzinger and a documentary appendix. In: Journal of Folklore . No. 88 . Hamburg 1992, p. 152–153 ( digitized via digi-hub.de ).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Ulrich Berger: “History” of the month of July 2016: 1901: School inauguration - and Maria Bidlingmaier as the first teacher in Nordheim . Nordheim 2016, p. 3–4 ( online via nordheim.de [PDF]).
  5. ↑ Christel Köhle-Hezinger: Children - Los, Blessing, Happiness and Sorrow . (Lecture). Bönnigheim July 21, 2013 ( online ).
  6. ↑ a b c Rosemarie Wehling: Women in the German Southwest . Ed .: Birgit Knorr. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-17-012089-1 , p. 249 .
  7. ↑ a b Ulrich Planck: Women farmers in the field of tension of agricultural intensification . In: Gerd Vonderach (Hrsg.): Rural residents in the view of social research: remarkable empirical studies in the history of German rural and agricultural sociology . Lit, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5557-0 , pp. 56 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
  8. ↑ Elke Eidam: The work against hunger. Food Culture and female life contexts in a Hessian community during the war and post-war period (=  European Ethnology . No. 3 ). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8133-4 , pp. 208 .
personal data
SURNAME Bidlingmaier, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bidlingmaier, Maria Caroline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and farmer researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauffen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1917
Place of death Stuttgart