Sophie Barrelet

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Sophie Barrelet (born January 10, 1893 in Hamburg ; † October 26, 1987 there ) was a German teacher trainer and National Socialist party functionary.

Life

The daughter of a Hamburg merchant came from a French-Swiss family and spoke English and French at an early age. In 1913 she passed her Abitur at a boys' school. After studying in Göttingen and Hamburg , she taught at a school during the First World War. In 1919/20 she was employed as a research assistant at the Romance Department of the University of Hamburg and in 1921 was qualified to teach French, Spanish, Latin, mathematics and philosophy. In 1922, she did her dissertation on Linguistic Studies on the Problem of Nasalization in France . Then she worked as a teacher.

From 1926 she worked at the Hamburg University at the Institute for Physical Education as an “academic gymnastics and sports teacher”. In 1934/35 she moved to the Institute for Educational Sciences. Here she taught in sports and foreign language didactics .

Barrelet joined the NSDAP as early as 1933 and took on several positions: Head of the Gaustelle for education and Nazi women , Gau clerk for girls' gymnastics at secondary schools, Gau clerk for women's gymnastics , member of the National Socialist Welfare Association and the Reich Air Protection Association . In November 1933 she signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges about Adolf Hitler .

Barrelet's teaching was dominated by National Socialist ideology. Her foreign language didactic events at Hamburg University in 1936/37 were “The national-political task of foreign language teaching” and “Upbringing of girls and women in the New Reich”. In an article in the Berlin journal Political physical education , she wrote

“The aim of all education, and thus also physical education, is to train girls to become healthy German women who are aware of their national task. People, race and personality are the main points of education. The physical exercises shape body and soul as bearers of the racial inheritance. "

When elementary school teacher training was outsourced from the university to the college for teacher training , Barrelet became a professor in 1940 for the subjects of "English, French, Spanish and methodology of foreign language teaching". In 1942 she became the deputy head of the Hamburg Teachers' Training Institute II, and in 1944 she became the head of the Teachers Training Institute III.

In 1962 Barrelet retired. She died on October 26, 1987 at the age of 95.

literature

  • Gutzmann, Ulrike: From the college for teacher training to the teacher training institute. The new regulation of elementary school teacher training during the National Socialist era and its implementation in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg . (Writings of the Federal Archives; Vol. 55) Düsseldorf, Droste, 2000.
  • Joho, Michael: University sports in Hamburg during the Weimar Republic and the early years of the "Third Reich". A local historical study on the militarization of the Hamburg University . Stuttgart, Silberburg, 1990.

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Individual evidence

  1. Joho 1990, p. 163.