Mathilde Mayer

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Elisabeth Amalie Mathilde Mayer (born June 1, 1889 in Germersheim , † after 1956 ) was a German educator.

Life

Mathilde Mayer was the daughter of the lawyer and Reich Military Judge Philipp Otto Mayer and his wife Marie Weber. She attended later in Max Slevogt High School renamed Higher School for Girls in Landau . Mayer obtained his university entrance qualification in Munich in 1904 and passed the examination as an English language teacher in Berlin in 1909 and as a French language teacher in 1910. At the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin , Mayer was a student of Eduard Spranger who had a lasting influence. She also studied with the Germanist Julius Petersen , whom she helped with the compilation of his writing From the time of Goethe .

In 1918/1919 Mathilde Mayer worked at the "Educational Science Department" at the College for Women founded by Henriette Goldschmidt . From 1924 to 1928 she was a full member of the “Study Group for Scientific Pedagogy” under the direction of Eduard Spranger, with whom she wrote a dissertation in 1933 and obtained her doctorate in Berlin.

After the Second World War Mathilde Mayer lived in Rhodt under Rietburg and worked as a teacher in the Palatinate. Because she was financially poor in the post-war period, she was supported by relatives from Switzerland from 1946 to 1949. Her estate is in the St. Gallen State Archives (Switzerland) and contains as yet unpublished records about life in occupied Germany as well as thoughts on education, worldview, politics and totalitarianism from the years 1946 to 1956.

Pedagogical positions

In her pedagogy, Mathilde Mayer oriented particularly towards Eduard Spranger, with whose humanistic ideal she identified, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , whose ethical and practical ideas she dealt intensively with. In didactics , she wanted to move away from a frontal teaching situation, which students feel in a permanent exam situation and demanded "to put the culture of the student question next to the teacher question". She was of the opinion that young women in vocational schools should be made aware of how the state can be involved by making national contexts vividly through problems at community level. "From here, however, the question of the state as power inevitably arises, and questions of politics become questions of their own accord, the imperial constitution becomes the goal and benchmark."

Fonts

  • Work school thoughts in the advanced training school. In: The teacher. Organ of the General German Teachers' Association. 36, 1919/1920.
  • Which cultural currents determine the development of the advanced training school? Historical and systematic consideration. Langensalza 1921.
  • Citizenship education in vocational schools. In: The teacher. Organ of the General German Teachers' Association. 40, 1923.
  • The positive morality at Pestalozzi (from 1776 to 1797). Berlin-Charlottenburg 1934.
  • Female youth in our time. In: Hans Wenke : Eduard Spranger. Portrait of a spiritual person of our time. For the 75th birthday offered by friends and companions. Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg 1957.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. the curriculum vitae in Mathilde Mayer: The positive morals in Pestalozzi (from 1776 to 1797). Dissertation. Berlin 1934.
  2. ^ Walter Eisermann: Standards. Perspectives on thought by Eduard Spranger. Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-590-14256-1 , p. 302.
  3. ↑ Julius Petersen: From the time of Goethe. Collected essays on the literature of the classical age. Leipzig 1932.
  4. ↑ St. Gallen State Archives: Files for emergency aid to Mathilde Mayer (1946–1949)
  5. ^ Mathilde Mayer: Records in the St. Gallen State Archives
  6. ^ Mathilde Mayer: Citizenship education in vocational schools. In: The teacher. Organ of the General German Teachers' Association. 40, 1923, p. 20.
  7. ^ Mathilde Mayer: Arbeitsschulgedanken in the advanced training school. In: The teacher. Organ of the General German Teachers' Association. 36, 1919/1920, p. 122.
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer, Elisabeth Amalie Mathilde (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Germersheim
DATE OF DEATH after 1956