Marie Quincke

Marie Quincke (born November 11, 1888 in Halver / Westphalia; † May 14, 1968 in Bremen ) was a German educator and women's rights activist.

biography

Quincke was the daughter of a pastor. She had four older siblings and grew up in a small town in Westphalia. She graduated from the elementary school and the rectorate school in Westerkappeln (middle school in smaller towns) as well as the secondary school for girls in Osnabrück . One year after graduation, she attended a teacher training college . She became a member of the Natural Science Association, learned to play the violin and sang in the Philharmonic Choir. She prepared privately for the Abitur because girls did not yet have access to high schools. Her father taught her Latin and Greek, a former schoolmate taught her mathematics, physics and chemistry. In 1909 she passed the external Abitur examination.

Quincke studied mathematics, physics and biology at the University of Bonn and the University of Munich until 1914 . They received his doctorate in 1914 magma cum laude for Dr. phil. with the theme The Arc Spectrum of Gold, measured according to international standards . She passed her state examination for high school teaching in mathematics, physics and biology with distinction in 1915.

In 1916 she became a senior teacher at the first, newly founded municipal lyceum in Bremen with a university at the Kleine Helle in Bremen-Mitte . In 1929 she was commissioned to build the new municipal lyceum in the west , Lange Reihe 81, in Bremen- Walle ; she became head of the school and director of studies . Mathilde Plate , Emmy Grave , Johanna Lürssen and Marie Quincke were the first women in Bremen in the 1920s as heads of state secondary schools for girls.

In 1933 she was appointed director of the secondary school for girls on Karlstrasse in the eastern suburb of Bremen. In 1943, school lessons were relocated to Meissen due to the war. In February 1945 she managed to bring the students back to Bremen with personal commitment, and she became seriously ill.

Quincke stood up for the goals of the Bremen women's movement in her associations from the 1920s to 1933 . Politically, she was a member of the left-liberal German Democratic Party (DDP) until 1933 . After the “takeover” of power by the National Socialists and the ban on other parties, the pressure on the teachers also became very great. Quincke joined the National Socialist Women's Association in 1935 and the NSDAP in 1937 .

In 1945, in the course of denazification , the military authorities dismissed her from school as a NS "fellow traveler". In 1949 she was returned to school at the Kippenberg High School . In 1950, Senator Christian Paulmann ( SPD ) appointed her senior high school councilor to the Senator for Education. After her death, Senator for Education Moritz Thape (SPD) acknowledged in a letter to her sister that she had “earned the appreciation of the school and administration staff thanks to her selflessness, her pronounced social attitude and her sense of justice”.

She was buried in Bonn.

Literature, sources

• Hannelore Cyrus : It was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. A female network of relationships and a reference system using the example of teachers from Bremen and their cabaret under the “director” Meta E. Schmidt . In: L'Homme. Journal of Feminist History . Vienna 1993, No. 1, pp. 57-73.
• Edith Laudowicz : Quincke, Dr. Marie . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .