Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te wāhanga tuatahi o te tau 1945 i uru atu a Maria Schmitz ki ngā miriona e rere ana i Berlin ki te uru. I mutu ia i Recklinghausen (ki te raki o Essen me Dortmund) i reira i whakariterite ai ia i te mea i noho poto ai hei tari hou mo te Tiamana (Te Hau-ā-uru) mo te Tiamana. (Kua whakakorehia te rerenga 1937 whai muri i te
te hinganga o te ture a Hitler.) I raro tonu i tana tumuaki, i neke ano te VkdL i tana tari matua a motu, ki tetahi waahi pumau ake i Essen, i te 1949. I raro i a Schmitz i whakawhanakehia te VkdL mai i te tinana tautoko ki te noho hei whare mātauranga i roto i tona ake tika, te hanga i nga kaupapa mo te whakangungu, te maatauranga me te kaupapa kura. Ko tētahi kaupapa matua mō Schmitz ko te whakatūnga o ngā whare mātauranga mātauranga hei wāhi mō te whakangungu kaiako, ā, arā atu, ko te tautoko i te mātauranga mātauranga o ngā wāhine.