Mintje Bostedt

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Mintje Bostedt (born March 14, 1897 in Preetz ; † June 23, 1955 in Bremen ) was a German welfare worker and headmistress.

biography

Wilhelmine Friedericke C (K) atherina (e), called Mintje from early childhood, was the oldest of six siblings. Her father was a master chimney sweep and was involved in poor relief. The mother took care of the upbringing of the children and the household. In order to give the children a good education, the family moved to Kiel , where Mintje attended the secondary school for girls. From 1915 to 1917 she completed the after-school training of the youth home association in Charlottenburg , and then from 1919 to 1920 the youth leader training at the training center of the same name. Then Bostedt worked as a school caretaker at the youth welfare office in Görlitz.

School brochure of the women's school for socio-educational professions in Weimar, archived in the Ida-Seele archive

At the age of 26, Mintje Bostedt took over the management of the social pedagogical seminar of the women's and training association in Bremen. Since she was denounced by a student, she had to relinquish the school management in 1934 due to political unreliability and in the same year took over the management of the women's school for socio-educational professions in Weimar under the care of the Thuringian Froebel Association . She had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1937 and was listed under membership number 5 201 948 .

On December 1, 1945, Bostedt joined the SPD , which was forcibly united with the KPD to form the SED in 1946 . In an assessment by the Weimar District Education Office to the State Office for National Education on June 27, 1946, it says: Miss Bostedt ... has been a member of the SED since December 1, 1945 . In 1948, however, Bostedt fled to the western zones. In Bremen, where she was appointed government councilor, she took over the management of the youth welfare office. In addition, Bostedt was involved in the Hans Wendt Foundation . In doing so, she was instrumental in the establishment of foster care nests , which received worldwide attention as a pioneering act in the field of childcare .

In word and writing, Bostedt advocated public education for young children, referring to Friedrich Fröbel and his play education:

The main emphasis of infant education lies in its attitude towards play and work in the small child. The basic ideas were expressed here by Friedrich Froebel, but have not yet been brought to life sufficiently. Play and work should be educational processes for the child. The game is meant as a subjective educational process, that is, the child is supposed to work out and develop the forces lying in him in play without any addiction and without any intention. From an educational point of view, the sole aim of the game is to develop the child’s strength .

Today the Mintje Bostedt House in Bremen commemorates the teacher.

Works (selection)

  • The needs and prospects of our profession. In: Kindergarten 1926, pp. 8-17.
  • Can the family, as a place of education, be a role model for home education? In: Kindergarten 1928, pp. 253-257.
  • The socio-educational profession of the kindergarten teacher. In: Deutsche Lehrerinnenzeitung 1929, pp. 355–356.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Her brother Karl (* July 21, 1898), engineer and since 1930 member of the KPD, went to the Soviet Union as a contract worker in 1931 , where he was arrested in 1936 and on October 3 of the year. J. was executed. He was not officially rehabilitated until 1956; see: In the clutches of the NKVD . German victims of the Stalinist terror in the USSR , Berlin 1991, p. 41.
  2. ↑ cit. n. Documents of the National Socialist Workers' Party. Gau Thuringia, archived in the Ida-Seele archive
  3. ↑ cit. n. Document, archived in the Ida-Seele archive
  4. ↑ cit. n. Document, archived in the Ida-Seele archive
  5. ↑ http://www.hans-wendt-stiftung.de/
  6. ↑ Berger 1997, p. 11
  7. ↑ cit. n. Fischer-Buck / Schultheis / Stoevesandt / Ungern 1995, p. 32.

swell

  • As .: Her life was devoted to youth. Government councilor Bostedt, head of the Bremen youth welfare office, has passed away. In: Bremer Nachrichten, July 25, 1955.
  • Anne Fischer-Buck / Rosemarie Schultheis / Klara Stoevesandt / Renata von Ungern: Mintje Bostedt 1897-1955. Communicative social pedagogy, Norderstedt 1995.
  • Manfred Berger : Wilhelmine Fredericke Katherine Bostedt, called Mintje. In: Spielmittel 1996 / H. 1, pp. 40-41.
  • Ders .: Portrait: Mintje Bostedt. In: Christ und Bildung 1996 / H.3, p. 27.
  • Ders .: On the 100th birthday of Mintje Bostedt. In: Wissenschaft und Praxis Dialog 1997 / No. 64/65, pp. 10-11.
  • Manfred Berger : Bostedt, Wilhelmine Friedericke Katherine , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 101f.

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personal data
SURNAME Bostedt, Mintje
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bostedt, Wilhelmine Friedericke Katherine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German welfare worker and headmistress
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Preetz
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1955
Place of death Bremen