Adele Beerensson

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Adele Beerensson (born March 15, 1879 in Bradford , England ; died October 13, 1940 in London ) was a British-German social work politician.

Life

In 1907 Adele Beerensson became secretary and in 1912 managing director of the Berlin “Girls and Women's Groups for Social Aid Work” founded in 1893 and represented them on the board of trustees of the welfare school founded in 1908 , where she worked as a lecturer. From 1911 she was Alice Salomon's secretary at the school. She was a member of the board of the "German Association of Youth Groups and Groups for Social Aid Work". In 1914 she became a board member of the war organization National Women's Service . From 1916 to 1925 she was chairwoman of the German Association of Social Workers (DVS) and from 1925 to 1933 its chief executive. In 1925 she finished working at the welfare school.

She represented the DVS in the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine (BDF) and from 1928 she belonged to the entire board of the BDF and worked in the specialist groups of the BDF for police workers and social workers. Beerensson belonged to other professional associations and committees and was a member of the school committee of the seminar for youth welfare in Berlin.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, she emigrated with her partner Gertrud Israel to England, their country of birth. She found work at Sara Pyke House, an institution for working girls and women in London. Both were killed in one of the German Air Force attacks on London .

Fonts (selection)

  • The situation of the workers in the Berlin chocolate and jam factories , in: Soziale Praxis. Centralblatt für Sozialpolitik, 16. Jg. (1906/07), Sp. 568-570
  • Thoughts on the organization of the training of welfare nurses , in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Wohlfahrtspflege, 2nd year (1926/27), pp. 358-360
  • Need for carers; Welfare will . Self-published, 1932
  • Jewish welfare work in England . In: Jüdische Wohlfahrtspflege und Sozialpolitik, Vol. 5, No. 6, November – December 1935, p. 205

literature

  • Peter Reinicke : Beerensson, Adele , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 72f.
  • Peter Reinicke: Adele Beerensson. Your work for social work in Berlin and Germany. In: Soziale Arbeit, 54 (2005) 12, pp. 456–463

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Reinicke : Israel, Gertrud , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 274f.
personal data
SURNAME Beerensson, Adele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-German association politician for social work
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Bradford
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1940
Place of death London