Vera Vollmer

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Vera Vollmer (born May 9, 1874 in Stuttgart ; † April 3, 1953 there ) was a senior councilor from Württemberg who was one of the first women to complete an academic course and was pioneering in the education of girls .

Life

Anna Vera Vollmer grew up with her three years younger sister Gertrud as the daughter of the royal high castle inspector in the old castle Robert Vollmer (1836-1892) and the lady-in-waiting and reader of Queen Olga , Theresia Wagner (1840-1906), in Stuttgart. The queen's stepdaughter, Duchess Wera , was her godmother. From 1881 to 1890 she was taught at the Königin-Katharina-Stift and then lived in her parents' household until 1896. Then she attended the higher female teachers ' seminar in Stuttgart until 1899 , which she graduated as a teacher for higher girls' schools .

From 1905 to 1907 she taught at the Königin-Katharinen-Stift before she took a leave of absence to study, since women were able to study for the first time from 1906 after completing the teachers' seminar. In the winter semester of 1907/1908 she studied German, English, French, history, geography, psychology and pedagogy at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , passed her first service examination in 1910 and completed her university training as a teacher after her legal clerkship at the Königin-Katharinen-Stift taking the second exam in 1911. From Easter 1912 to Easter 1914 she headed a secondary school for girls in Stuttgart, the Prieser Institute. In addition, on May 28, 1914, she was the first woman to receive her doctorate in German studies at the University of Tübingen summa cum laude with the mediaeval work The concepts of the Triuwe and the states in courtly minne poetry under Hermann Fischer . Until 1921 she worked as the main teacher for the upper classes at the Queen Charlotte Realschule .

On April 26, 1921, the Minister of the first Württemberg government, Berthold Heymann, appointed her as the first woman to the ministerial department for secondary schools. In the Stuttgart Ministry of Culture, she worked as a government councilor and advisor for girls' schools. This included the further training opportunities for girls who had finished school, the expansion of the girls' higher education system and the state training of specialist teachers. She advocated improved training, the creation of schools, the establishment of seminars and systematic training for professions such as kindergarten teachers , after-school care workers and youth leaders with comparable requirements and qualifications. In Kirchheim unter Teck she founded the housekeeping seminar for housekeeping and handicraft teachers, whose training she took over herself. She did not retire until 1942, but continued to do research and journalism until her death.

For many years she has dealt with questions of women's professions and women's studies, on the subject of which she wrote numerous essays and treatises. Your written estate with most of your publications is in the Stuttgart Main State Archives . Vera-Vollmer-Strasse in Stuttgart and Vera-Vollmer-Weg in Hemmingen are named after her .

Fonts (selection)

  • The concepts of the Triuwe and the states in the courtly poetry of love. Dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1914
  • Thoughts on education for girls following the Reichsschulkonferenz . In: Schwäbische Kronik , July 17, 1920
  • From the higher school system for girls in Württemberg . In: Deutsche Mädchenbildung III, 9, 1927, pp. 115–117
  • From the Württemberg school system . In: ADLV magazine, May 20, 1930
  • The status of the women's upper school question in the southern German states . In: German education for girls . Volume 7, Teubner, 1931, p. 113
  • Linguistic from old Swabian cookbooks . In: Contributions to the history, literature and linguistics, mainly of Württemberg . Karl Bohnenberger on his 75th birthday. Hans Bihl (ed.), Verlag JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen, 1938, pp. 361-375
  • The female technical schools in Württemberg . In: Education for girls in the vocational and technical schools of the National Socialist state . 8 lectures held at a working group organized by the Württemberg Ministry of Culture in the state housekeeping seminar in Kirchheim u. T. Marie Tscherning (Ed.), Burg-Bücherei, Esslingen a. N., 1934, p. 31
  • Ottilie Wildermuth . Poet and writer. 1817-1877 . In: Swabian Life Pictures . Volume 5, Hermann Haering (Ed.), Stuttgart 1950, pp. 354-378
  • Ottilie Wildermuth . In: Baden-Württemberg portraits. Female figures from five centuries . Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (Ed.), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-05271-9 , pp. 122–127

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Baden-Württemberg State Archives: Finding aid Q2 / 13 . Retrieved March 18, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d e Corinna Schneider: Vera Vollmer (1874-1953) . In: 100 years of women's studies at the University of Tübingen 1904-2004 - historical overview, reports from contemporary witnesses and contemporary documents . Equal Opportunities Office of the University of Tübingen (Ed.), 2007, pp. 392–393. Retrieved March 18, 2018
  3. ^ Ingrid Retzlaff-Mahlstedt: Vera Vollmer. Women of all walks of life should be educated . In: Renate Knorr / Rosemarie Wehling (eds.): Women in the German Southwest (=  writings on political regional studies of Baden-Württemberg . No. 20 ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1993, p. 242–248, here 247 .
  4. ↑ a b c Retzlaff-Mahlstedt 1993, p. 248.
personal data
SURNAME Vollmer, Vera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vollmer, Anna Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg guide for girls' education
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1953
Place of death Stuttgart