Ruth Zechlin (author)

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Ruth Zechlin (born May 28, 1899 in Torgau ; † June 11, 1966 in Wiesbaden ) was a German non-fiction author and professor of work education .

Life

Ruth's father Lothar Zechlin (1860–1935) was consistorial councilor and superintendent , her grandfather was the local historian Theodor Zechlin from the Altmark . She had five siblings, including the historian Egmont Zechlin .

After completing her training as a kindergarten teacher and handicraft teacher in 1921, Ruth Zechlin was briefly a traveling teacher for the evangelical women's aid and then a factory teacher in Finland, at the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus Berlin, at the Odenwald school and the North Sea pedagogy in Wyk auf Föhr . From 1935 to 1945 she was a lecturer for handicraft education at the Berlin seminar for social workers (previously: seminar for youth welfare, founded in 1923 at the Hochschule für Politik) and the universities for teacher training in Schneidemühl (Frankfurt [Oder]) and in Pogegen near Tilsit . After the Second World War, from 1951 until her retirement in 1964, she was initially a lecturer and from 1962 professor at the Pedagogical Institute in Weilburg (Lahn), which was integrated into the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 1963 .

During a serious illness, because of which she had to interrupt her professional life from 1927 to 1929, she began her writing. She became particularly well-known for her bestseller Werkbuch für Mädchen (1932), the 30th edition of which appeared in 1967 (428th – 461th thousand) and was continued after her death in an adaptation by other authors until the 42nd edition. Translations of the book have appeared in Finnish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, French, English, Italian and Spanish.

On August 14, 1964, at the suggestion of the Hessian Prime Minister, she was awarded the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works

  • Workbook for girls. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg, in different editions.
  • Happy nursery. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg.
  • Christmas. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg.
  • The weaving book. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg.
  • Handicraft primer. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg.
  • Constant collaboration on the journals of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association .

literature

  • Ellen Schwitalski: Become who you are. Pioneers of reform pedagogy. The Odenwald School in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. transcript, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89942-206-6 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201512024794 (Zugl .: Bielefeld, Univ., Diss.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Zechlins. Family and descendants tables of Achim Segelin in 1541 in Kyritz, Lentz Zechlin around 1600 in Scharlibbe and Jürgen Zechlin around 1700 in Stolper Land. Edited by Cläre Maillard , geb. Zechlin. Berlin 1937, OCLC 251361353 .
  2. ^ History of the Alice Salomon University - a chronicle up to 1971. In: alice-salomon-archiv.de, accessed on November 2, 2017 (compiled by Adriane Feustel).
  3. ↑ Presentation of the career in the additional personnel file in the Hessian Main State Archives (Dept. 527 No. II 10655).
  4. ↑ DNB 578466600 .
  5. ↑ Federal archive signature B 122/38546.
personal data
SURNAME Zechlin, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Torgau
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1966
Place of death Wiesbaden