Minna Specht

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Minna Specht (22 December 1879 in Schloss

socialist and member of the German Resistance. She was one of the founders of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund
.

Early years

Minna Specht was born the seventh child of Mathilde and Wilhelm Specht (d. 1882). The family lived in Reinbek castle, originally the hunting lodge in Friedrichsruh, which they acquired in 1874 and turned into a hotel. The approximately 70-room castle was only open in summer, during which the children lived with a nanny and a governess in one of two small houses next door.[1][2] In 1882, following an accident, her father died, leaving the family in financial difficulties.[1]

Specht's first schooling was in a small private school at the castle from 1884 to 1894 and at a girls' school in

University of Munich. In 1909, she returned to teach at the girls' school where she'd previously worked, staying until 1914.[1]

Returns to university

In 1914, at the age of 35, Specht returned to the University of Göttingen to study mathematics, finishing as an Oberlehrerin, certified to teach the higher grades.[3] The following year, she met the philosopher Leonard Nelson, an acquaintance that changed her way of thinking[1] and developed into a close working and personal relationship.[3] Together, they founded the Internationaler Jugendbund,[4] along with Max Hodann and his wife, Mary.

Specht worked for a short while with

confiscated in May 1933.[3]

Exile and return

In 1933, Specht fled Germany with the Walkenmühle pupils, most of whom were children of socialist or Jewish parents

Edith and Paul Geheeb, who decided to ask her to head up the school, which they had had to abandon in 1934.[3]

Specht returned to Germany and ran the Odenwaldschule, from 1946 through 1951.

Goethe
Plaque for Training and Education for her service in educational science theory and practice.

Specht died in Bremen in 1961 aged 81.[2]

Legacy

Specht's personal papers are located at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn, in the Archive of Social Democracy. The collection contains extensive correspondence, files, records on the history of Walkemühle, the schools in Denmark and England, manuscripts and Specht's published writings on education and politics. There are also photo albums.[2]

There is a school in Frankfurt am Main named for Minna Specht.[10]

Selected works

  • Jakob Friedrich Fries. Der Begründer unserer politischen Weltansicht, Verlag Öffentliches Leben, Stuttgart (1927) (in German)
  • Vom Sinn der Jugendweihe, Verlag Öffentliches Leben, Göttingen (1930) (in German)
  • Education in post-war Germany, International Publishing Company, London (1944)
  • Re-making Germany, by Mary Saran, Willi Eichler, Wilhelm Heidorn, Minna Specht. Preface by James Griffiths. Published on behalf of the Socialist Vanguard Group, International Publishing Company, London (1945)
  • Kindernöte, edited with Martha Friedländer. Verlag Öffentliches Leben, Frankfurt am Main (1950) (in German)
  • Leonard Nelson. Zum Gedächtnis, Verlag Öffentliches Leben, Frankfurt am Main (1953) (in German)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Minna Specht: Biografisches" Archived 2008-10-21 at the Wayback Machine Philosophical-Political Academy, official website. Retrieved July 19, 2010 (in German)
  2. ^ a b c Ilse Fischer, "Minna Specht – eine politische Pädagogin" Friedrich Ebert Foundation, official website. Retrieved July 20, 2010 (in German)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Dr. Inge Hansen-Schaberg, Erinnerung an Minna Specht Archived 2008-10-21 at the Wayback Machine Philosophical-Political Academy. Lecture on memories of Minna Specht at the opening of an exhibit at Rhinbek castle. Retrieved July 19, 2010 (in German)
  4. ^ a b c d "Politische und pädagogische Arbeit" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Philosophical-Political Academy, official website. Retrieved July 19, 2010 (in German)
  5. ^ Der Funke, Edition No. 147 A (PDF) Friedrich Ebert Foundation, official website. (June 25, 1932) Dringender Appell on p. 2. Retrieved July 6, 2010 (in German)
  6. ^ Mary Saran, Pause vor dem Neuanfang in Hellmut Becker, Willi Eichler and Gustav Heckmann (Eds.), Erziehung und Politik. Minna Specht zu ihrem 80. Geburtstag. Frankfurt (1960) pp. 327-329 (in German)
  7. W. Arthur Lewis
    . Oswald Wolff Ltd., London (1976)
  8. ^ Birgit S. Nielsen, Erziehung zum Selbstvertrauen, Ein sozialistischer Schulversuch im dänischen Exil 1933-1938. Foreword by Hellmut Becker. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal (1985), 2nd edition, with additional foreword by Hermann Röhrs. Weinheim (1999) (in German)
  9. ^ a b c "Exil und Neuanfang" Archived 2007-08-15 at the Wayback Machine Philosophical-Political Academy, official website. Retrieved July 20, 2010 (in German)
  10. ^ Minna-Specht-Schule Official website. Retrieved July 20, 2010 (in German)

Further reading

  • Inge Hansen-Schaberg, Minna Specht - Eine Sozialistin in der Landerziehungsheimbewegung (1918 bis 1951), Untersuchung zur pädagogischen Biographie einer Reformpädagogin. Studien zur Bildungsreform, 22. Frankfurt (1992) (in German)

External links

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