Christine Teusch
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Christine Teusch (11 October 1888,
From 1947 to 1954 Teusch was
She is credited with rebuilding the German education system after the
Biography
Teusch qualified as a teacher in 1910 and a
She joined the Catholic resistance group Kölner Kreis ("Cologne Cross"). Under the Nazis, she found refuge in the Olper Franziskanerinnen
From 1923 to 1965, she was the chairwomen of the German National Association of Catholic Girls' Protection Societies in
Offices
Teusch was a member of the Zentrumspartei from Imperial times until 1945. In 1945 she joined the
In 1919 she became the youngest member of the Nationalversammlung ("National Assembly") and from 1920 to 1933 had a seat in the Reichstag. She was elected to the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia after the war, from 1947 to 1966. She was appointed Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia on 19 December 1947, which post she retained until she retired from it in 1954. While in office, Teusch also contributed to the re-establishment of the Studienstiftung and the German Academic Exchange Service.
Honours
On 7 September 1956, she was the first woman to receive the Große Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband des Bundesverdienstkreuzes (literally, "Great Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of the
Selected publications
Translator's note: These are in German.
- Fürsorge des Zentrums für Schwache und Hilfsbedürftige ("Welfare from the Centre for the Weak and Needy"), Berlin 1924.
- Die christliche Frau im politischen Zeitgeschehen ("The Christian Woman in Current Affairs"), Dortmund 1946.
- Das christliche Bildungsideal ("The Christian Ideal of Education"), in: Politisches Jahrbuch der CDU/CSU, hrsg. vom Generalsekretariat der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der CDU/CSU für Deutschland, 1. Jahrgang, Frankfurt 1950.
Notes
- ^ (in German) schulministerium.nrw.de (June 2010) Archived 19 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
Sources
- Gabriele Kranstedt: "Katholische Mädchensozialarbeit". In: Köln seit über 100 Jahren. Gründungsgeschichte. Mit einem Vorwort von Anni Jülich. Hrsg. von IN VIA Verband Katholischer Mädchensozialarbeit Köln e.V. Köln 2001, 24 S.
- Gerold Schmidt: "100 Jahre IN VIA Verband Katholischer Mädchensozialarbeit in Köln". In: not-wendig. Katholische Mädchensozialarbeit Köln 1898–1998. Mit einem Vorwort von Anni Jülich und Sibylle Klings. Hrsg. von IN VIA Verband Katholischer Mädchensozialarbeit e.V. Köln. Köln 1998, 35 S.
External links
- Christine Teusch in the German National Library catalogue
- Gabriele Lautenschläger (1996). "Christine Teusch". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 11. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 726–728. ISBN 3-88309-064-6.
- Newspaper clippings about Christine Teusch in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW