Ruth Bahls

Ruth Bahls (born December 29, 1909 in Göhren (Rügen) , † December 25, 1994 there ) was a German museum founder, local researcher and educator.

Life

Bahls was born as the only daughter of the captain Wilhelm Bahls and his wife Caroline Sabine Hedwig Bahls , née Dehnert, in the beach villa Rheingold . From 1919 to 1925 she attended elementary and family school in Göhren. In 1925 she was confirmed and went to the Hansaschule am Sund in Stralsund , where she obtained secondary school leaving certificate in 1926 . This was followed from 1926 to 1927 by commercial training at the Second Commercial School for Girls of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and from 1928 to 1930 the school training was continued at the Hansaschule am Sund with the completion of the Abitur . After a brief job as an office clerk in January 1930, she attended the Pedagogical Academy in Stettin from April 1930 and moved to Kiel in the spring of 1931 , where in March 1933 she passed the first examination for teaching at elementary schools . From April to September 1933 she did a voluntary labor service in Wolferode , Pinnowund and Wahlendow . On October 1, 1933, she entered the school service in Göhren as a training grant recipient. This was followed by positions as assistant teacher in Greifswald in 1934, in 1934/1935 in Hanshagen , 1935 in Seefeld , 1936 in Hanshagen, Loitz and Stettin, 1937 in Stralsund and from 1937 to 1939 in Damgarten , where she took the second examination at the elementary school in 1937 discarded. From 1935 to 1938 she was a squad leader with the BDM .

She completed a degree in pedagogy , which she completed in 1940 and then worked as a teacher in 1940/1941 in Prora , Sellin , Middelhagen and Zicker and in 1942/1943 in Dreschvitz . From 1943 she was employed as a teacher in Middelhagen and Alt Reddevitz. From 1948 to 1983 she then worked as a teacher in her home town of Göhren.

However, she continued her education. From 1952 to 1954 she completed a distance learning course at the German Central Pedagogical Institute in order to acquire teaching skills for the intermediate level in geography . From 1956 to 1961 he studied at the historical and philological faculty of the Potsdam University of Education with the aim of obtaining a teaching qualification for grades 5 to 12 in geography.

From around the end of the 1940s she was working on plans for a cultural and historical museum for Mönchgut . In 1957 she organized a first local history exhibition with objects from Mönchgut folk culture in the reading room of the Göhrener Warmbad. In 1959 the first permanent exhibition followed in a Mönchguter farmhouse parlor in what would later become Rookhus . On May 1, 1963, the Mönchgut Heimatmuseum was opened as the second museum of its kind on Rügen . As the second museum in Göhren, the Museumshof Göhren was opened to the public on August 11, 1971 . With the Rauchhaus Dat Rookhus , which opened on May 25, 1977 , a third and a fourth museum was added in Göhren with the museum ship Luise, which opened on August 12, 1982 . The school museum in Middelhagen was the last museum she initiated to open on August 1, 1986 . It was on her initiative that the first Mönchgut Landscape Day was held in October 1985. She put on a large collection of literature on the island of Rügen, an archive and a collection of objects on the subject.

She was involved in monument preservation and landscape protection . In addition to the Mönchgut, she also dealt with Gingst , Rambin and Zirkow .

At the beginning of December 1994 Ruth Bahls suffered a stroke after she had been hospitalized in November 1994 . She died at the end of December in her house, Villa Rheingold in Göhren. Her urn was buried in January 1995 at the Göhren forest cemetery. She was unmarried and remained childless.

Honors

Memorial stone for Ruth Bahls, 2017

On October 2, 1974, she was made an honorary citizen of Göhren. In 1975 she received the Leibniz Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , in 1979 the Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal of the University of Greifswald . In 1984 she was given the honorary title of Museum Councilor by the GDR Minister for Culture . In Göhren, the Ruth Bahls memorial stone was erected in her honor in front of the local history museum . A street in Sellin was named after her.

Works

• Investigation into marital status in a parish on the Mönchgut peninsula , 1933
• Determination of the bedloads of the Göhrener Hövtes marked by key fossils , 1954
• Methods and results of geographic homeland research in the Göhren area (island of Rügen) , 1961
• Mönchgut - a landscape study. Overviews of natural and cultural history and hikes , with other authors, Göhren, Greifswald 1990

Web links

• Torsten Döring, Ruth Bahls on www.moenchgut-history.de
• Ruth Bahls from Göhren on www.strandhäuser-sellin.de