Ruth Koehler-Irrgang

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Ruth Köhler-Irrgang (born February 12, 1900 in Berlin , † after 1942) was a German writer .

The daughter of the organist and music professor Bernhard Irrgang studied philosophy and economics and passed the teaching examination. She worked as a writer in Berlin . After the National Socialists seized power , she joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . She became a speaker of the Nazi women's group in Berlin and worked in the local press department. In October 1933 she and 87 other writers signed the pledge of the most loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . Her writings dealt extensively with the role of women and were partly published for propaganda purposes in the central publishing house of the NSDAP .

Several books by Köhler-Irrgang were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 and 1948 .

Works (selection)

  • The woman in the people's life of faith. Rather follow up, Munich 1943.
  • The family as a source of strength and livelihood for the people. (= Series of publications on ideological training work of the NSDAP. Vol. 13: The fight as a law of life ). Central publishing house of the NSDAP, Rather Nachf., Munich 1942.
  • The mission of women in German history. By Hase & Koehler, Leipzig 1940 (3rd edition 1943).
  • Kinship Duty and Morality. 1938.
  • The woman from the hill. Adolf Klein, Leipzig 1938.
  • The religious foundations of the kinship idea in the Icelandic saga. Adolf Klein, Leipzig 1936.
  • The old baking trough. Amateur play. Kaiser, Munich 1936.
  • Woman and child at the northern end of the world. Adolf Klein, Leipzig 1935.
  • The flute in the reeds and other stories. Behr, Berlin 1934.

literature

  • Koehler-Irrgang, Ruth. In: Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt (eds.): Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual (= Education and Science Edition. Vol. 10). Akademie, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004094-7 , p. 415 (short vita).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Berlin IVa, No. 150/1900
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 321 and 477.
  3. ↑ Polunbi.de
  4. ↑ Polunbi.de
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 321.
personal data
SURNAME Koehler-Irrgang, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1943