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Olga Essig (born July 15, 1884 in Bromberg , West Prussia , German Reich ; † December 14, 1965 in Hamburg ) was a German professional educator and, as part of the German women's movement, was particularly active in the education of girls and women .

Life

Origin and education

Olga Essig was born as one of six children of a farming family in Bromberg (West Prussia). Since 1908 she completed her training as a qualified trade teacher, which she completed in 1914 with an additional examination in technology. From 1914 she studied pedagogy, social and economic sciences in Breslau and Frankfurt, in 1918 she completed her studies with a doctorate .

School and women's education

The former women's labor school at Feldbergplatz 4

In 1920 Essig became a member of the Association of Decided School Reformers (BESch). In 1921 she took over the management of the women's labor school in Mainz and resigned the following year in the dispute over her management style. In 1922, as part of the Greil school reform, she was appointed lecturer for the girls 'vocational school system in the Thuringian Ministry of National Education and was supposed to reform the girls' vocational school system. In 1924 she was dismissed immediately after the Reichswehr had overturned the coalition government in Thuringia from the SPD and KPD by Reich execution and right-wing parties had taken over the government. From 1924 she was the director of the general trade school for women , d. H. the girls' vocational school in Hamburg; she was appointed high school councilor for the entire Hamburg vocational school system.

After the " National Socialists came to power ", Essig was retired in 1933 for political reasons. After the end of the war, she took over the post of high school councilor for the vocational school authority (today: Hamburg Institute for Vocational Education and Training (HIBB)) again. In 1946 she was a co-founder of the Hamburger Frauenring . She retired in 1950. In 1959 she received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

Olga Essig was buried in the Bornkamp cemetery in Hamburg , the grave was dissolved.

Fonts

  • The heritable building right in the city of Poznan , (Economic Studies, Vol. 4) Berlin, Ebering, 1920
  • The large domestic business; an economics study . Frankfurt a. M., Brönner, 1920
  • The vocational school as a member of the production school: With distinction from d. Provisions on establishment and Curriculum d. Subject u. Advanced training school, as well as d. Vocational school teacher training in Preussen a. Critical Note. . (= The School of Life - Series of writings of the Federal Decision-Making School Reformer, Issue 5) Berlin, Schwetschke, 1921 (reprinted in: Die Arbeiterjugend and the emergence of vocational training for workers. Six writings, 1890–1938 . Ed. And imported by Andreas Kunze, Vaduz, Topos Verlag, 1987))
  • Profession and humanity: lectures and Guiding principles of d. Bundestag meetings in Frankfurt a. M., Berlin-Lankwitz a. Offenbach, 1922
  • Profession and humanity: lectures, abstracts, etc. Guiding principles . 2., through and presumably ed., (= The School of Life - Series of writings of the Federal Decision-Making School Reformer Vol. 8/9) Berlin, Schwetschke, 1924
  • Die Berufsnot der Frauen , 1922. In: dies. Profession and humanity: ..., 1922, pp. 26–32.
  • In the fight for the vocational school: school politics. u. organizer. Plans, drafts, proposals, etc. Attempts , 1924
  • The female vocational school . In: Handbook of Pedagogy. 4 The theory of the school and the school structure. Edited by Herman Nohl u. a. - Langensalza u. a., Beltz, (1928), pp. 193-202
  • Women's work and public vocational education in Hamburg: organize lecture series. from D. Faculty d. General Vocational schools for female Youth, school f. Clerks, saleswomen, trade a. high. Commercial school, schools f. Women professions d. Kindergarten teacher seminars and nanny school . Edited by d. Organizers d. Lecture series. [Einf .: Olga Essig], 1929
  • The woman in industry. Quellenhefte zum Frauenleben in der Geschichte , 18, Berlin, Herbig, 1932 (Newly published in the source editions on the history of the German labor movement: Project 2, Proletarian Women's Movement , Wildberg, 2002 and as a CD-ROM edition: Wildberg, Belser Wiss. Dienst , 2004)
  • Caspar Voght on Pestalozzi: a letter from Yverdun to the Patriotic Society , 1935
  • Vocational and community education in Anna Siemsen's life's work . Mainz, Helios-Verl., 1951 (special print from the monthly: Lebendige Schule: monthly for education and teaching ; 6th year 1951. H. 8.)

Secondary literature

  • Agnes Heineken: Olga Essig. Pioneer of female professional education . Kiel, Dr. Witthöft, 1956 (special print from the monthly: Girls Education and Women Creation . 6th year, May 1956. H. 5).
  • Neuner, Ingrid: The Bund decided school reformers 1919-1933. Program and implementation. , Bad Heilbrunn, Obb., Klinkhardt, 1980.
  • Bernhard, Armin (Hrsg.): The union of the decided school reformers. A suppressed tradition of democratic pedagogy and educational policy. , Frankfurt, a. M., dipa-Verl., 1990.
  • Inge Hansen-Schaberg : Return and new beginning. The effectiveness of the pedagogues Olga Essig, Katharina Petersen and Minna Specht in western Germany after the war . In: Yearbook for Historical Educational Research, Vol. 1 (1993), pp. 319–338.
  • Mayer, Christine: Vinegar, Olga. In: Hamburg biography. Lexicon of persons. Edited by Frank Kopitzsch and Dirk Brietzke , Vol. 1, Christians, Hamburg 2001, pp. 91-93.
  • Mayer, Christine: Olga Essig and the establishment of the general vocational school system for girls in Hamburg. In: On New Shores 1929–2004. Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Uferstrasse vocational school. (2004), pp. 30-34.
  • Mayer, Christine: Essig, Olga Margaretha . In: Old Prussian biography. On behalf of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State History, Vol. V, 2, ed. by Klaus Bürger. Osnabrück: fiber Verlag, 2007, pp. 1779–1780.
  • Mayer, Christine: Reform pedagogical initiatives in vocational training in the 1920s: The development of the girls' vocational school system in Hamburg under the direction of Olga Essigs . In: K. Kraus and M. Weil (eds.): Vocational training. Historical - current - international. Detmold: Eusl-Verlagsgesellschaft, 2015, pp. 34–40.
  • Manfred Berger : Essig, Olga , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 165f.

Individual evidence

  1. See biography of Olga Essig. State Center for Political Education Hamburg
  2. See press release of December 2, 2010. Women who create knowledge: 21st Mainz women's calendar 2011 has now been published. ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. Biography of Olga Essig. State Center for Political Education Hamburg
  4. See Traute Hoffmann: The first German ZONTA club. On the trail of extraordinary women . Hamburg 2002, p. 147f.
  5. Biography of Olga Essig. State Center for Political Education Hamburg
  6. Biography of Olga Essig. State Center for Political Education Hamburg
  7. Olga Essig at garten-der-frauen.de