Career
Teusch qualified as a teacher in 1910 and a rector in 1913. In 1915 she became Chairwoman of the Katholischen Lehrerinnenverein ("Catholic Women Teacher"s Association") in Cologne. By 1918 she was head of the Women Workers" Secretariat at the Generalsekretariat der Christlichen Gewerkschaften ("General Secretariat of Christian Trade Unions") in Cologne.
After the Nazi takeover in 1933 she returned to school, but retired on health grounds in 1936.
She joined the Catholic resistance group Kölner Kreis ("Cologne Cross"). Under the Nazis, she found refuge in the Olper Franziskanerinnen Franciscan Hospital in Arnsberg-Hüsten and lived there incognito.
From 1923 to 1965 she was Chairman of the German National Association of Catholic Girls" Protection Societies in Freiburg im Breisgau. Her grave is in the Melaten Cemetery in Köln-Lindenthal.
In 1945 she joined the Christian Democratic Union, and was elected party leader for the British occupation zone after the Second World War.
She was also in parliament after the war, from 1947 to 1966. She was appointed Minister of Culture on 19 December 1947, which post she retained until she retired from it in 1954.