Alice Pollitz

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Alice Pollitz (born March 24, 1890 in Friedrichstadt ; † June 16, 1970 in Hamburg ) was a German teacher and high school councilor .

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Alice Pollitz was the daughter of a factory manager. She initially received schooling at a private school in Hamburg, a local monastery school and a secondary school in Berlin . She then returned to Hamburg, where she trained as a teacher at the St. Johannis educational institutions and then passed the school-leaving examination. Pollitz studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at universities in Berlin, Freiburg, Göttingen and Kiel. From 1916 to 1921 she taught at several private schools in Hamburg and in 1923 took over the management of the New Lyceum on Westphalenweg, which from 1926 was called the German Oberschule on Lübeckertorfeld (DOL) and was merged with the monastery school in 1934 (today: Klosterschule ). Alice Pollitz expanded the range of teaching and set up a "school self-administration" that offered young girls opportunities to participate.

Alice Pollitz worked in the General German Teachers' Association and in the German Association of Women Academics and the Association of Women Philologists. Based on these references, she was able to attend the World Federation of Education Associations in Denver in 1931 after a year as a visiting teacher at a high school .

During the Nazi era , Pollitz was deprived of the school administration in 1933. She taught at the Lichtwark School until 1937 and at the secondary school for girls in the Alstertal until 1945. Since 1937 she belonged to the NSDAP . Pollitz herself later said that she had to make this compromise in order to continue working as a teacher and to be able to pay for her mother and sister. After the end of the Second World War , she was returned to the position of head of the monastery school in 1945. Three years later she appointed the school board to be a high school councilor. During her creative time, she succeeded in reforming the higher schools, which went back to approaches from 1933. It reduced the scope of the curriculum in the secondary school by restricting the number of compulsory subjects and introduced significant changes in the history of Hamburg high schools.

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SURNAME Pollitz, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and high school councilor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1970
Place of death Hamburg