Martha Steinert

Martha Anna Karoline Steinert (born October 28, 1882 in Düsseldorf ; † June 13, 1967 in Kaiserswerth ) was a German teacher for German lessons and a textbook author.

The teacher's daughter attended the teacher’s seminar in Droysig near Weißenfels from 1899 to 1902 and then worked as a private educator in Wetter an der Ruhr until 1905. Then she became a seminar teacher in various Prussian teacher’s seminars and studied German, philosophy and history at the University of Göttingen until the state examination in 1913 She then taught in Augustenburg in Northern Schleswig until 1920, after which it was transferred to Denmark in Schleswig . From 1925 on she was a teacher at the German Oberschule in Schleswig (Lornsenschule) and in 1926 was appointed lecturer at the newly founded Pedagogical Academy in Kiel under Ulrich Peters , which became a college for teacher training in 1933 . In 1927 she was appointed professor for German and the methodology of German teaching there. In 1939, after Kiel was closed, it went to the HfL Hannover, which in 1941 became a teacher training institute exclusively for women. From 1946/47 she taught again as a professor at the University of Education in Kiel methodology of German lessons, from 1949 to 1951 she had another teaching assignment. In May 1957 she moved to a Protestant retirement home in Kaiserswerth, where she lived until death.

She published many language books for German lessons in elementary schools until the 1960s, including the very popular “My Language Book”.

In November 1933, Steinert signed the German professors 'commitment to Adolf Hitler , joined the NSDAP in 1937 and was a member of the Nazi teachers' association .

Fonts

• The old Icelandic saga poetry in the elementary school , 1936
• Language education in primary school , Schroedel, Hanover 1950
• My language book: Paths to self-employment u. Differentiation in mother tongue lessons , with Otto Holm , Hanover-Darmstadt 1956

Web links

• Martha Steinert's personnel form in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)