Martha Abicht

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Martha Abicht (born May 12, 1878 in the Ehrlichsmühle near Neustadt an der Orla ; † November 12, 1941 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German kindergarten teacher and close collaborator of Anna von Gierke in the youth home association .

Live and act

She was the eldest of two daughters of a grain and sawmill owner. Looking back on her happy childhood, Martha Abicht wrote:

My birthplace is about 3/4 hour from the city in beautiful surroundings. This grain and sawmill, which included a large farm, was a paradise for us children. What a wonderful childhood we spent there that made up for my sister Marie and me for worries that were too early .

After the family business went bankrupt, the parents moved with their children to the nearby city and finally two years later to Berlin. In the latter city, Martha Abicht completed her training as a kindergarten teacher at the renowned Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus from 1893 to 1895 . She then worked for a short time as a private tutor. May 1896 Martha Abicht was employed by the youth home association . There she took over the management of the kindergarten, where she introduced the method of the monthly item (developed by Henriette Schrader-Breymann ). In addition, Martha Abicht later took on responsibility for the girls ' and boys ' homes and for school meals for the youth home association .

Together with Anna von Gierke, she founded the Landjugendheim Finkenkrug GmbH in 1921 . A barrack was set up in Finkenkrug as early as the summer of 1922 and full operation began a year later. The rural youth home was primarily used as a place to relax for employees, schoolchildren and children of the youth home association .

When Anna von Gierke had to leave the youth home because of her Jewish relatives , Martha Abicht took the side of the ostracized. In 1938 she moved into a ground floor apartment in the spacious Anna von Gierkes house, Carmerstrasse 12, and supported her friend in caring for those in need and those oppressed by the National Socialists . Marie Baum wrote about her imminent passing :

Despite all medical prohibitions and all requests from friends, she had visited Alice Bendix's mother in the winter cold , whom she loved like a daughter of her own and whose fate in Munich was faced with new decisions and dangers. She must have been deeply moved by the visit. On the way back, near Carmerstrasse, she had a heartbeat, so that one can say with the vernacular that she died of a broken heart ... Elisabeth von Thadden moved into the apartment vacated by Martha Abicht's death .

On May 20, 1978, the former youth hostel commemorated Martha Abicht's 100th birthday in the Charlottenburg house of the church , Goethestrasse 27. The celebration was u. a. organized and designed by Isa Gruner , Gerda Zurelli, Else Nordqvist and Suse Lindemann.

Works

  • Music in the Kindergarten, in: Central Institute for Education and Teaching (Ed.): Musikpflege im Kindergarten, Berlin 1929, pp. 1–7
  • The single day care center - the facility and the organizational tasks, in: German Archive for Youth Welfare (Hrsg.): School child care in day care centers and day care centers, Berlin 1930, pp. 72–75
  • 10 years of the Finkenkrug Youth Home (Osthavelland), Berlin 1932
  • Life memories. A fragment, Berlin 1952

literature

  • Marie Baum: Anna von Gierke. A picture of life, Weinheim / Berlin 1954
  • Manfred Berger : Abicht, Martha, in: Hugo Maier (ed.): Who is who der Sozialen Arbeit, Freiburg / Brsg. 1998, pp. 27-28
  • Birgit Jochens / Sonja Miltenberger (eds.): Between rebellion and reform. Women in the West of Berlin, Berlin 1999, pp. 18–19

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abicht 1952, p. 1
  2. ↑ Jochens / Miltenberger 1999, p. 18 f
  3. ↑ Baum 1954, p. 101
  4. ↑ Document for the celebration is archived in the Ida-Seele-Archiv
personal data
SURNAME Abicht, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German kindergarten teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehrlichsmühle near Neustadt an der Orla
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1941
Place of death Berlin