Elisabeth Flitner
Elisabeth Flitner (born Elisabeth Czapski ; born October 25, 1894 in Jena , † May 21, 1988 in Tübingen ) was a German economist and social scientist.
Life
Elisabeth Flitner was the fifth of eight children of the physicist and Carl Zeiss board member Siegfried Czapski, who died in 1907, and his wife Margarete, née. Cook. She was the wife of Wilhelm Flitner and the sister of Helene Holzman and the mother of Andreas Flitner . In 1915 she belonged to the first class of high school graduates in Thuringia.
Flitner studied economics and social sciences in Berlin, Munich and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in Jena in 1925 with a thesis originally written in Heidelberg on The Problem of Need in War Family Welfare .
Since 1917 she was married to the pedagogue Wilhelm Flitner . She lived with him until 1926 in Jena, from 1926 to 1929 in Kiel, then in Hamburg and finally in Tübingen. She worked as a community college lecturer and was dismissed in 1933 because of her Jewish descent. During the war, their house became a meeting place for people who were hostile to National Socialism. After 1945 she worked as a lecturer at the technical school for social professions in Hamburg and organized self-help institutions for women in need. She was for many years Vice President and most recently Honorary Chairman of the German Child Protection Association .
Elisabeth Flitner was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery.
literature
- Andreas Flitner , Joachim Wittig (Ed.): Optics - Technology - Social Culture. Siegfried Czapski, companion and successor of Ernst Abbes. Letters, writings, documents . Hain-Verlag, Rudolstadt 2000, ISBN 3-930215-91-8 .
- Wilhelm Flitner : Memories . Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn et al. 1986, ISBN 3-506-72571-8 , ( Collected Writings Vol. 11).
- Documentation: Like an unmistakable call. On the death of Dr. Elisabeth Flitner. Schwäbisches Tageblatt May 28, 1988.
- Manfred Berger : Flitner, Elisabeth , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 175f.
Web links
- Literature by Elisabeth Flitner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Search for "Elisabeth Flitner" in the German Digital Library
- Film about Elisabeth and Wilhelm Flitner , by Ulli Pfau
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait and tombstone at garten-der-frauen.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flitner, Elisabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Czapski, Elisabeth (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist and social scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1988 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |