Martha Krause-Lang

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Martha Krause-Lang (born March 26, 1912 in Oberammergau ; † December 14, 2016 in Krauthausen ) was a German social worker and an authoritative pioneer of social work in Germany.

Life

She was the fourth of her parents' six children. Her father, Anton Lang , was a master potter, who achieved fame far beyond Germany and Europe as the actor playing Christ at the Oberammergau Passion Play (in 1900, 1910, 1922; in 1930 and 1934 he also spoke the prologue). The mother was responsible for bringing up the children and running a small guesthouse for around 20 guests. Many important personalities such as the pianist Michael Raucheisen or the Apostolic Nuncio at the time, Cardinal Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII , frequented the Lang house .

After graduating from high school, which Martha Lang took at the St. Anna secondary school in Munich-Lehel, she studied economics (or state economics) in Bonn , Munich , Vienna and Freiburg . There she studied Caritas Science in parallel and completed her studies with a doctorate in economics. During her studies she was involved in the Catholic youth movement, where she also met her husband Willi Krause, who u. a. Was editor of the voices of the youth , got to know.

In 1935 she took on a job in the countryside within the framework of the Dorfcaritas , where she was mainly responsible for the course work for women in order to encourage volunteer work on site. Martha Krause-Lang reported on this in her autobiographical sketch:

“I was initially assigned to the southern part of the Rottenburg diocese […], later my area of ​​work was in villages in the Eifel and Saarland. I also spent a long and instructive winter in Upper Silesia at [...] The course work within the framework of the Dorfcaritas should form the basis for later cooperation between the volunteers of a rural community and the work of a Caritas welfare worker in the district. "

Martha Lang and Willi Krause married in the summer of 1939. The marriage resulted in a son (born 1940). In 1944 her husband fell. In the spring of 1945 the widow and her son fled to Oberammergau from Gablonz in North Bohemia, where Willi Krause had been a teacher. Martha Krause-Lang worked in refugee welfare from 1946. Two years later she was employed as a full-time lecturer at the Social Women's School in Munich, where she a. a. introduced and taught the new subjects casework and individual social assistance . In the summer of 1961, the director of the social and charitable women's school of the Bavarian State Association of the Catholic Women's Association , Maria Ammann , a daughter of Ellen Ammann , made her head of the denominational educational institution:

"Since the training of carers will be extended to three years from the school year 1961/62, the new director is initially confronted with the task of building up and consolidating the three-year training course. Due to the extended training, there is also the need to build a new, larger school. "

The caritatve women's school was merged with the Catholic Foundation University of Munich in 1971 . Krause-Lang took over the office of Vice President for one year. In 1970, together with Willy Kögel, she took over the construction of the newly founded Romano Guardini technical college on the grounds of the foundation college . Until she left at the end of the winter semester, she was a professor of economics as well as theory and methods of social work and was a member of the university's board of trustees until 1985.

In 1983 Martha Krause-Lang moved to Aachen. In old age she dealt mainly with gerontological questions. Furthermore, she was jointly responsible for the qualification of Italian social workers in the service of Italian industrial workers (guest workers) in Germany, for courses for the qualification of retirement home managers and for the further training of voluntary employees of Caritas.

Criticism of Martha Krause-Lang's image of women and families

Martha Krause-Lang drew a predominantly conservative image of women and families in her publications (especially in the 1950s). The mother belongs in the house, the husband in working life. She does not want to accept family social and economic stressful situations that require the cooperation of the wife alone:

“The nights of bombing, soldiers' lives, flight and displacement have all contributed to our reliving the value of family education over the past decade and a half. Despite all the severe stress tests of that time, the family has survived, yes, one can say that it has re-established itself in a certain sense [...] Unless there are particularly good reasons, the mother should not take up gainful employment or give up her job for so long When she has small children at home [...] That this task is still difficult, and in many cases unsolvable, is a realization that should spur us on to well-considered demands for socio-political reforms. In this area there is above all the call for work for the father or for family compensation funds for parents with an increased educational effort. "

Rainer Bendel , who in his essay describes Martha Krause-Lang's image of women and families in detail, is of the opinion:

“The exemplary selected contributions by Martha Krause-Lang, the target group was primarily women, show that they have adopted classical patterns of the image of women, their positioning in marriage, family and work, in society and passed on argumentatively, but not consistently practiced herself: contrary to the widespread notion of the unmarried teacher or Caritas sister, she preferred to combine studies and marriage, work and family, single mother, work and intensive volunteer work. "

Works (selection)

  • Employment of the mother in the upcoming family law . In: wife and mother . 1952/53 / H. 3-4, pp. 19-21
  • Caring for the familyless child. In: Hans Opitz , Franz Schmid (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde , Volume 3: Immunology, social pediatrics . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1966, DNB 456883622 , pp. 546-561
  • Training in social work on various levels . In: Social Work . 1969, pp. 293-303
  • Social values ​​and social worker training . In: Caritas . 1969, pp. 150-153
  • Criteria for evaluating success in social work . In: Caritas . 1970, pp. 189-196
  • The helping relationship . In: Caritas . 1971, pp. 310-323
  • Enabling people to help: social training for voluntary social-charitable services. Lambertus, Freiburg 1976, ISBN 978-3-7841-0113-2 .
  • Memories of Christ Anton Lang from Oberammergau. Aventinus-Verlag Thurmair, Eggenfelden 1980, ISBN 978-3-88481-003-3 .
  • Never again as beautiful as Sulamith: the pleasure and burden of getting older . Herder, Freiburg et al., 1987, ISBN 978-3-451-21126-3 .
  • Getting old with new thoughts . Klens, Düsseldorf, 1996, ISBN 978-3-87309-138-2 .
  • Self-presentation. In: Hermann Heitkamp, ​​Alfred Plewa (ed.): Social work in self-testimonials , Vol. 2. Lambertus, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-7841-1397-5 , pp. 147–177.

literature

  • Gerlinde Wosgien: Pioneers of Professionalization: The History of the Munich Social and Charitable Women's School. In: Gisela Muschiol (Hrsg.): Katholikinnen und Moderne: Catholic women's movement between tradition and emancipation. Aschendorff, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-402-03432-3 , pp. 69-87.
  • Rainer Bendel: Crossing Borders: Martha Krause-Lang (born 1912) in her charitable and pastoral work for women. In: Lydia Bendel-Maidl (Hrsg.): Catholics in the 20th century: images, roles, tasks (= contributions to theology, church and society in the 20th century, 2). Lit-Verlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-5540-6 , pp. 186-199.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krause-Lang 2002, p. 154.
  2. ↑ Wosgien 2003, p. 83.
  3. ↑ Krause-Lang 1952/53, p. 21.
  4. ↑ Bendel 2007, p. 198.
personal data
SURNAME Krause-Lang, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social worker
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberammergau
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2016
Place of death Krauthausen