Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A farkon rabin shekarar 1945 Maria Schmitz ta shiga cikin miliyoyin da ke tserewa daga Berlin zuwa yamma. Ta ƙare a Recklinghausen (a arewacin Essen da Dortmund) inda ta sake tsara abin da ya zama ɗan gajeren lokaci ya zama sabon hedkwatar Jamus ta Yammacin Turai. (An soke haramcin 1937 bayan faduwar
na tsarin mulkin Hitler.) Duk da yake a karkashin shugabancinsa, VkdL ya sake komawa hedkwatarsa na kasa, zuwa wani wuri na dindindin a Essen, a 1949. A karkashin Schmitz, VkdL ya ci gaba daga kasancewa kungiyar bayar da shawarwari zuwa zama cibiyar ilimi a cikin kansa, ƙirƙirar shirye-shirye don horo, ilimi da manufofin makarantu. Wani fifiko na musamman ga Schmitz ya shafi kafa makarantun koyarwa a matsayin wuraren horar da malamai kuma, musamman, tallafawa ilimin ilimi na mata.