Amalie Loewenberg

Amalie Loewenberg (born December 14, 1889 in Culmsee , West Prussia Province , † after 1942) was one of the first female academic teachers in Prussia .

life and work

Loewenberg was the daughter of the businessman Arnold Loewenberg. From 1903 to 1906 she attended the Städtische Höhere Töchterschule in Hildesheim and subsequently the Sophienschule Hannover , which was founded in 1899 as a Höhere Töchterschule . Here she was able to take her matriculation examination, because this was only possible in 1908 after the Prussian girls' school reform. She was one of the first women to study German, French and Latin in Heidelberg , Munich and Bonn , where she passed her first exam in 1916. That same year she was one of the first academic teachers in Prussia and as the first Jewish school teacher in Hildesheim at the Municipal Higher School for Girls (now Goethegymnasium set), because due to the war teachers were missing. During the Weimar Republic she became the coordinator of teacher training for Latin and French. She also completed language courses in Paris and supervised trainee lawyers .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis , it was in 1933 together with the evangelical music teacher Margarete van Biema , who was also Jewish, and then leave on December 1, 1933 after the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service § 3 retired.

In 1934 she moved to her sister in Berlin and in 1935 represented a sick teacher at the Israelitische Lehranstalt in Leipzig for a few months. In 1936 she taught at the Jewish Realgymnasium in Breslau , but kept her apartment in Berlin. Later, she and her sister had to move into an overcrowded apartment there. She was committed to forced labor in the Berlin-Buch hospital and then taken to a collection camp in the Levetzowstrasse synagogue . On June 13, 1942, she was deported to the Lublin-Majdanek concentration and extermination camp . Since then she has been considered lost and probably died in the gas chamber . Her sister Erna Heimann committed suicide on November 24, 1942.

On August 17, 2010, a stumbling block was laid in memory of Amalie Loewenberg at the Goethegymnasium Hildesheim .

literature

• Christina Prauss: A school for women. The rise, fall and new beginning of the Goethe School in Hildesheim. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-551-4 .
• Christina Prauss: Persecuted, murdered - unforgotten. In memory of the students of the Municipal Higher Daughters and State Goetheschool under the National Socialist tyranny. Hildesheim, Gerstenberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-8067-8743-6 .

Web links

• biography
• Stumbling blocks in Hildesheim