Brewhouse School

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The Sudhaus School was a private girls' college and a higher education institution in Hanover . The school was run and shaped by women from the Sudhaus family from 1892 to 1939. During this time it operated under various names, such as Sudhaus-Schule from 1902, Sudhaus-Lyzeum with state recognition from 1909, Privat-Lyzeum Sudhaus Hannover and as the supporting association Sudhaus-Lyzeum e. V. from 1930. The school was officially recognized and was closed in 1939.

history

The school was first mentioned in 1818 as a private teaching establishment for “young women”. From 1818 to 1827 Marianne Eisendecher was the director and from 1825 her daughter Henriette Eisendecher under the name "Eisendecher'sches Pension Institute", a private daughter's school with boarding school. From 1827 to 1861 Marianne Ebeling was the head of the school with boarding school under the name "Institut der Geschwister Ebeling". Between 1861 and 1877 the director was Minna Westerhausen and the school was called "Lehranstalt Minna Westerhausen". The three sisters Marie, Ida and Mathilde Ahrens were in charge from 1877 to 1892.

From 1892 to 1904 the school was managed by Anna Sudhaus (* July 7, 1862 in Trier; † July 5, 1945 in Hanover). She ran the school in cooperation with her sisters Sophie Sudhaus (born January 11, 1864 in Haspe (Westphalia); † March 24, 1954 in Ilten-Sehnde) - the serious one - and Elisabeth (Lisbeth) Sudhaus (born September 26, 1865 in Duisburg; † April 21, 1952 in Ilten-Sehnde) - the happy one. In 1904 her cousin Hildegard Sudhaus (born March 12, 1878 in Treptow (Rega); † January 15, 1961 in Hanover) took over the management of Anna, who had to resign in 1904 because of her marriage to cousin Siegfried Sudhaus ( celibacy of teachers from 1880 to 1957). In 1927 Maria Linnemann became director, since from then on only one academic was allowed to run the school.

It is noteworthy that the school was family-run as early as 1818 and was always run by women. She was associated with a boarding school from the start. The school was run in the Protestant sense with the values ​​of faith, a sense of duty and charity. Only a few students from other denominations (Catholic, Jewish) visited them. From the beginning, however, foreign students attended the school. A special feature was that the school management actively involved the parents in school life from the start.

Sophie and Elisabeth Sudhaus were the owners of the private school from 1892 to 1930. Hildegard Sudhaus ("Fräulein Hilde"), headmistress from 1904, was the defining personality. She ran the school for 23 years and taught there until 1937. Sophie and Elisabeth Sudhaus retired in 1930 after 38 years. That is why the registered association “Sudhaus-Lyzeum eV” was founded in 1930 as the new sponsor of the school. It then called itself "Privatlyzeum Sudhaus Hannover. High School for Girls ”.

From around 1910 a close connection was maintained with the Pestalozzi Foundation in Burgwedel and the Stephansstift in Hanover, which are still dedicated to youth work today. There was good cooperation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover ; Especially pastor Heinrich Grimm (theologian) - later superintendent - should be mentioned, whose daughters attended the brewhouse school.

In 1863 there were 50 students in 3 classes and in 1874 there were likewise. In 1892 there were 90 students and in 1900 there were 180 students. In 1913 there were 248 female students in 10 classes (classes 1 to 10, or in later notation: classes X to UII) with 25 teachers. The first four classes were preschool, the actual lyceum began with the 5th grade. In 1931 there were already 300 female students. Since the school only went up to grade 10 (Untersekunda, UII), the school had to be changed to, for example, an upper lyceum, in order to obtain the Abitur. In 1937 the monthly school fee was 22 marks for local residents and 25 marks for non-residents.

The girls' school at Köbelinger Strasse 7 in the city center existed as early as 1818 (as an “educational institution” in the Hanover address book from 1849). The school probably existed before that. In 1870 the move to Georgsplatz 10, in 1874 the move to Warmbüchenkamp 13/14, a classicistic brick building, where it stayed until the end. The very prestigious school was closed on March 23, 1939 after more than 120 years of existence, as only state schools were allowed. The building was destroyed in the air raids on Hanover in World War II.

After the school was closed at Easter 1939 - after 121 years - the “Association of Former Teachers and Students from the former Sudhaus-Lyzeum Hannover e. V. “founded. Immediately after the Second World War there was an unsuccessful attempt to reopen the school. The club was deleted in 1965. Hildegard Sudhaus was buried in the Seelhorst city cemetery in Hanover in 1961 and on March 21, 1961 the Sudhaus-Lyzeum school association organized a memorial hour for her. Sophie and Elisabeth Sudhaus were buried on the grave of their parents in the Stöcken city cemetery in Hanover.

Documents on the brewhouse school are in the Hanover City Archives and in the Berlin State Library .

Known students

literature

  • Wilhelm Lohmann : History outline and topographical painting of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover. Helwingsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hannover 1818, 237 p. Text in Google books (first mention of the school on p. 114)
  • Handbook of the Prussian Education Administration with statistical reports on the higher education system. 1926. (There the "Privat-Lyzeum Sudhaus" and "Hildegard Sudhaus" are called.)
  • Maria Linnemann: Private Lyceum Sudhaus, Hanover: From the life of the school in the school year 1932/33. 4 p. The report was published annually.
  • Maria Linnemann: Private Lyceum Sudhaus, Hanover: From the life of the school in the school year 1934/35. 8 p. The report was published annually.
  • Maria Linnemann: The brewhouse school and its work. Buchdruckerei Stephansstift, Hanover 1937, 8 pp.
  • Maria Linnemann: From the history of the brewhouse school: 1818–1939. 1939, 23 p. (Report on the school's closure)
  • Farewell to "Brewhouse". In: Stadt-Kurier Hannover. March 24, 1939 ( Hannover City Archives )
  • Monika Sonneck, Simone Corpus: Out of the house: Women's history in Hanover. 1994, 209 p. (The "Brewhouse School" on p. 78, 79, 87)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (Wilhelm Lohmann, p. 114)