Minna Reichelt

Minna Reichelt (born April 30, 1842 in Schmiedeberg ; † June 5, 1906 in Dresden ) was a deaconess , teacher and journalist.

The daughter of the armory smith Karl August Reichelt came to Dresden with her family in 1850. In 1857 she began her training in Frau Kantor Mittags Kindergarten, she received theoretical lessons from Froebel pupil Bertha Glöckner. She also took the course for gym teachers at Kloß. At Easter 1860 she went to the institute of Mrs. Frankenberg as a teacher for gymnastics and French elementary lessons. Michaelis of the same year she became a student at the Royal Saxon Teachers ' Seminar in Lichtenstein-Callnberg .

After a year she had to drop out of training due to financial difficulties and became the tutor of the son of Partikulier Döhne. After that she worked in the house of the spinning mill owner Tetzner in Rothenhaus near Görkau in Bohemia. On May 1st, 1867 she entered the deaconess institution in Dresden . She received training in nursing. In 1870 she worked in a hospital and received a war commemorative coin from Stahl am nichtcombattanten -band. On August 24, 1868, she founded the Christian toddler school in a garden house on the corner of Holzhof-Wolfsgasse, from which the Dresden toddler teacher seminar emerged in 1872 (officially 1878). In 1869 she celebrated her consecration as a deaconess. She maintained a friendly collaboration with Sister Marie Amundsen. In 1893 she began to work on the Saxon Toddler School Bulletin (from 1896 Christian toddler care ). She worked in the "Committee for the Christian. Schools for small children in Saxony ”.

literature

• Gotthold Schanz: Sister Minna. A picture of life based on their own records and the communications of others . Dresden 1906.