Maria Kiene

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Maria Kiene (born April 8, 1889 in Schwäbisch Hall , † September 28, 1979 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was head of the department for child welfare at the German Caritas Association , founder / co-founder of social institutions and facilities of the Catholic Church. She had a decisive influence on the Catholic kindergarten system and Catholic recreational care.

Live and act

Maria Sophie Thekla was the third of five children of the district court president and center politician Johann (Hans) Baptist Kiene and his wife Anna, geb. Cutter. In Ravensburg , where her father was professionally transferred, she attended elementary school, then the secondary girls' schools in Ravensburg, and from 1899 in Stuttgart . This was followed by a year of boarding school in the Ursuline convent Calvarienberg near Ahrweiler . Marie Kiene then prepared for her Abitur in private studies, which she successfully passed at a boys' high school. She studied economics and philosophy. Because of illness, she broke off her studies and later completed the kindergarten teacher training at the kindergarten teacher seminar of the Württemberg regional committee of the Catholic women's association in Schwäbisch Gmünd . This was followed by training as a youth leader at the Stuttgart Fröbelseminar of the Swabian women's association .

After five months as a housemother of the holiday recreation center Heuberg in the city of Stuttgart, Marie Kiene was appointed to the Caritas headquarters in Freiburg im Breisgau . There she was first employed in the child welfare department , of which she became head in 1924. Together with Alexandrine Hegemann , Marie Kiene founded the professional association of Catholic kindergarten teachers and youth leaders (now the Catholic Educational Community in Germany ). Two years later, she founded the working group for Catholic kindergarten seminars (today the Federal Working Group for Catholic Training Centers for Educators ). On her initiative, a youth leadership seminar was founded in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1927, a predecessor of today's Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg .

At that time, her book Das Kind im Kindergarten found high recognition and dissemination not only in Catholic specialist circles. The publication went through several editions and was translated into Italian. In it, Maria Kiene took the view that was customary at the time that the kindergarten was not a necessary facility and that its task is ultimately to make itself superfluous. She wrote:

It has always been a matter close to the heart of charitable child welfare to recognize the kindergarten only as an institution that complements the family and to represent it as such everywhere. Every consideration of the kindergarten is based on the assumption that it is by no means to be placed alongside the family as a necessary world of the child instead of the family or something like school ... Friedrich Froebel expressed himself after he saw himself prompted to establish kindergartens outside the home : 'We are there to spare ourselves'. Every kindergarten director must see her task in this spirit.

Another professional focus of Marie Kiene was child and youth welfare. As early as 1926 she founded the Association of Catholic Children's Recreational and Medical Care (today the Association of Catholic Sanatoriums and Health Clinics for Children and Young People ). Especially after the Second World War , she campaigned for the conceptual development of recreational care and advocated the establishment of homes / clinics in Wangen , Mittelberg , Aschau and Friedenweiler .

It was not until 1966 that Maria Kiene retired from professional life.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Our children, our joy , Freiburg / Breisgau 1932.
  • The child in kindergarten , Freiburg / Breisgau 1953.
  • Right to life and vital needs of small children , Weinheim 1956.
  • God's sun to our children. Handbook for Child and Youth Recreational Care , Freiburg / Breisgau 1957.
  • Human education today , Freiburg / Breisgau 1957.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiene 1953, p. 10 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kiene, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiene, Maria Sophie Thekla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1979
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau