Mathilde Auguste Hedwig Kömmerling

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Mathilde Auguste Hedwig Kömmerling (born Fitzler, born June 11, 1896 in Frankfurt am Main , † 1993 in Pirmasens ) was a German historian and founding member of the German Women's Association .

Life

She grew up in Frankfurt am Main and in Pforzheim . During her history studies in Munich and later in Berlin , she learned several foreign languages ​​such as English , French , Spanish and Portuguese . After graduation, the young German historian moved to South America , where she researched the sources of the Amazon . In 1922 the then MA Hedwig Fitzler was the first female professor in Rio de Janeiro . After returning to Germany, she dealt with the Spanish and Portuguese colonial history in South America and later with the emergence and development of the newspaper as a print medium .

In 1937 Hedwig Fitzler married the Pirmasens factory owner Karl Kömmerling, owner of the Kömmerling company of the same name . As a housewife and mother, Mathilde Kömmerling published writings on colonial history and devoted herself to setting up a women's ring, first in Pirmasens and later a regional association in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Hedwig Kömmerling died in 1993 at the age of 97 in her husband's hometown. In 2005 she was counted among the "most important one hundred Rhineland-Palatinate" together with only eleven other women and 82 men.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 100 large Rhineland-Palatinate women (PDF; 288 kB).
  2. ↑ Pirmasens City Library (Ed.): Professor Dr. Dr. phil. Hedwig Kömmerling: colonial historian, 1896–1996 . City library, 1996 ( books.google.at - exhibition by the Pirmasens city library, June 11 - August 16, 1996).
  3. ^ MA Hedwig Fitzler: The trading company Felix v. Oldenburg & Co. 1753-1760. 1931, Verlag W. Kohlhammer.
  4. ^ The New York Times : Woman Professor for Rio. , P. 87, October 8, 1922 edition.
  5. ↑ Anniversary: ​​400 years of the newspaper. ( Memento from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.5 MB), University of Bremen .
  6. ^ MA Hedwig Fitzler: The emergence of the so-called Fugger newspapers in the Vienna National Library. Baden near Vienna 1937.
personal data
SURNAME Kömmerling, Mathilde Auguste Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fitzler, Mathilde Auguste Hedwig (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 1993
Place of death Pirmasens