Pauline Herber

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Pauline Herber , pseudonym E. Ernst (born February 29, 1852 in Idstein ; † July 28, 1921 in Boppard ) was a German teacher, writer and founder of the Association of Catholic German Teachers .

Pauline Herber, archived in the Ida-Seele archive
Pauline Herber at a young age, archived in the Ida-Seele archive

Live and act

Pauline Herber came from a family of teachers. After elementary school she attended the secondary school for the poor maidservants in Montabaur . She then spent retirement years in Courtrai . From 1867 she lived again with her parents in Montabaur, where she ran the household and cared for the sick mother. Count Schmising-Kerssenbrock, who was acquainted with the Herber family, asked her “to come to the count's house as the educator of his children ... She fell ill after a short time and had to return to her parents' house, but in the short time she realized come that she was called to be a teacher ”. From 1869 to 1871, Herber completed a teacher training course run by the Dernbach sisters in Montabaur, which she completed with an exam for elementary and secondary schools for girls. Years as a private teacher in England and France followed. From 1876 Herber taught at the municipal elementary school in Montabaur and was also at the Kgl. Teachers' seminar in Saarburg . In 1880 she passed the school director's exam in Frankfurt am Main . Herber retired at the age of 45 due to illness.

In September 1885 Herber founded the Association of Catholic German Teachers (VkdL). With this she wanted to deepen the professional and class conceptions of teachers on a religious basis. Herber was the first chairwoman of the association from 1893 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1916, then as honorary chairwoman until her death. In addition, she founded a health insurance for teachers in 1889, a support fund in 1900, a charity in 1913 and a teachers' home in Boppard in 1896. Within the VkdL, the chairwoman of the association had set up various commissions for: proof of travel address (1887), legal protection (1895), literature (1897), youth welfare (1898), advanced training (1901) as well as propaganda and statistics (1902) . Herber was also an active co-founder of the Catholic German Women's Association , as well as the Societas Religiosa , a community of women in the religious spirit, but without religious dress. As a staunch Catholic, she challenged the denominational school. Also advocated independent education for girls and the admission of women to academic studies. She published her ideas from 1889 in the 'monthly magazine for Catholic teachers' founded by Waldeck, the association organ of the VkdL and from 1916 as editor of the magazine "Die Junge Lehrerin" .

The Pauline-Herber-Weg reminds of the teacher in her place of birth.

Honors

  • 1912 Pontifical Order Pro ecclesia et pontefice

Publications (selection)

  • The profession of teacher. Depicted in letters to a schoolgirl . 1882
  • Association of Catholic women for the women's movement of our time . In: Die Christliche Frau , 2, 1904, pp. 113–119
  • Angel service. Considerations for teachers . 1903
  • Guide to youth rescue . 1905
  • The female teacher system in Germany . Kempten / Munich 1906
  • Married teachers . In: Monthly for Catholic Teachers , 21, 1908, pp. 79–84
  • Raising mothers through women's work . 1909

literature

  • Manfred Berger : Herber, Pauline . In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , XXI. Band, Nordhausen 2003, Col. 632-646.
  • Ilse Brehmer, Karin Ehrich: Motherhood as a profession? CVs of German pedagogues in the first half of this century . Volume 2: Short biographies , Pfaffenweiler 1993, pp. 110-112.
  • Elisabeth Mleinek: Pauline Herber. A portrait of the founder of the Association of Catholic Teachers, 1922.
  • Anna-Maria Schmidt: Catholic and emancipated. Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne and Pauline Herber as leading figures in the education of women and girls around 1900 , St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag 2018 (Sofie. Series of publications on women's research 22), ISBN 9783861106739 .
  • Else Schmücker: women in social responsibility . Paderborn 1962, pp. 23-34.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmücker 1962, p. 24
  2. ↑ vkdl.de
  3. ↑ Berger 2003, Sp 639f
  4. ↑ Brehmer / Ehrich 1983, p. 111
personal data
SURNAME Herber, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernst, E. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, writer and founder of the Association of Catholic German Teachers
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Idstein
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1921
Place of death Boppard