Margarete Turnowsky-Pinner

Margarete Turnowsky-Pinner (also Grete, Hebrew מרגרטה טורנובסקי-פינר; * February 27, 1884 in Kosten , Province of Posen ; † January 1982 in Tel Aviv ) was a German-Israeli social worker and social scientist .

Life

Margarete Pinner came from a Jewish academic family. The father, Sigismund Pinner, was a lawyer and the mother, Elisabeth, b. Bernstein, teacher. The family had moved from Poznan to Berlin before the First World War . Margarete Pinner attended a seminar for teachers in Berlin, studied social sciences and finished her studies with a doctorate. From 1917/18 she had studied for one semester as a guest student at the University of Heidelberg . There her paths crossed with the writer and later politician Ernst Toller .

From 1919 Margarete looked after East Jewish immigrants ( Jüdisches Volksheim , Berlin), from 1923 worked in the management of the Association of Zionist Women (BZF) and published articles on social science issues. From 1928 to 1930 she worked for the Association of Jewish Women for Cultural Work in Palestine and from 1930 to 1933 in a leading position for the Schocken department store's scholarship and welfare fund founded by Salman Schocken .

In 1933 Margarete emigrated to Tel Aviv with her daughters Miriam and Rachel . Her divorced husband Walter Turnowsky, with whom she had already lived and worked in Palestine from 1925 to 1927 , obtained an entry permit for them. In 1938 they were followed by Margarete's brother, Ernst Pinner, with his wife Rozalia and their two children Magdalena and Stefan. The son Hananja had started an apprenticeship in ceramics in Stoke-on-Trent in Great Britain , but was interned in a British camp after the outbreak of war with the Hitler regime. In 1943 he was also allowed to travel to Palestine via Australia .

Justice Minister Sigismund Pinner, the father of Margarete and Ernst, died on March 25, 1943 in exile in Birmingham . The father's youngest sister, named Recha Cohn, her daughter and her husband died in Theresienstadt .

Margarete Pinner-Turnowsky continued to work as a social worker in Tel Aviv and campaigned for the integration of refugees from Germany.

Works

• Wizo's care for immigrants & refugees: historical survey 1933–1946 , compiled on the basis of documents by Grete Turnowsky-Pinner, Tel Aviv: Wizo, Palestine Executive Publicity Department, 1946
• Jewish Women of Palestine in Trades and Professions , Tel Aviv: Women International Zionist Organization, Instruction and Information Center, 1948
• On the occupational classification of new immigrants in the State of Israel , Tel Aviv: Israel WIZO Executive Instruction and Information Center, 1948 (?)
• Vocational rehabilitation of immigrants in the State of Israel , Tel Aviv: Sepher Press, 1948, (= Women's International Zionist Organization. Instruction and Information Center)
• One year of unlimited immigration , Miriam Scheuer and Wera Lewin (eds.), Tel Aviv: Israel WIZO Executive, Instruction and Information Center, 1949
• Reception of immigrants in Israel: new methods , Tel Aviv: WIZO Executive, Department for Zionist Education, 1950 (?)
• The second generation of Central European settlers in Israel , Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck), 1962, (= series of scientific papers of the Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany; Vol. 5)
• Nevertheless: from the life of Dr. Ludwig Eliezer Bregmann: on the first anniversary of his death March 5, 1964 , Tel Aviv-Jaffa: typescript, 1964
• Margarete Turnowsky-Pinner: A student's friendship with Ernst Toller, Year-book 15, Leo Beack Institute, p. 211-222.

literature

• Dieter Oelschlägel: Turnowsky-Pinner, Margarete , in: Hugo Maier (ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 596
• Oliver Schlaudt: Margarete Turnowsky-Pinner: "A study friendship with Ernst Toller" in: Markus Bitterolf, Oliver Schlaudt, Stefan Schöbel (eds.): Intellectuals in Heidelberg 1910–1933. A reading book, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816366-2-8 .
• Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg (ed.): Jewish women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-16344-6 .
• Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 , p. 339.
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 369 (further references given there).

Web links

• Christiane Goldenstedt: Margarete Turnowsky-Pinner (1884–1982) on Future Needs Remembrance , created: May 14, 2015, accessed: June 10, 2019.