Anna Reinach

Anna Reinach (born June 21, 1884 in Stuttgart as Anna Stettenheimer; † December 29, 1953 in Munich ) was one of the first regular high school graduates in Württemberg and holds a doctorate in physics.

Life

Anna Stettenheimer was born on June 21, 1884 as the daughter of the businessman Albert Stettenheimer (1850-1900) and his wife Clara Weil (1863-1921) in Stuttgart. She was one of the three students in the founding year 1899 of the Stuttgart girls' high school. These three were the first high school graduates in 1904, along with another student. After a royal decree made it possible for women to study at the University of Tübingen in the same year , she enrolled there for the subject of medicine. But then she switched to physics and received her doctorate in 1907 with a thesis on "An absolute measurement of the Zeemann phenomenon". In 1911 and 1912 she taught at the girls' high school in Stuttgart.

On September 14, 1912, she married the philosopher and legal theorist Adolf Reinach in Mainz . Together with him, she was baptized into the Protestant church in Göttingen in 1916.

She took the death of her husband, who fell as a war volunteer near Diksmuide, Belgium, calmly and impressed her friend Edith Stein with this attitude of Christian faith so much that she later saw it as the impetus for her turn to Christianity . In 1923 Anna Reinach converted to Catholicism . The influence of Catholic friends protected her, who were of Jewish descent, from persecution by the National Socialists until 1942 . But then she had to flee because of a denunciation. Via Paris she came to San Sebastian (Spain). From there she returned to Munich in 1950.

In 1953, shortly before her death, a new edition of her husband's main work appeared under the title On the Phenomenology of Law, the a priori foundations of civil law .

literature

• Mascha Riepl-Schmidt : The first 40 years of the Hölderlin grammar school - once Württemberg's first “girls grammar school” . In: Monika Balzert (Red.): 100 years of the Hölderlin-Gymnasium-Stuttgart . Stuttgart 1999, pp. 21-47.
• Corinna Schneider: Anna Stettenheimer (1884-1953) . In: Equal Opportunities Office of the University of Tübingen (Hrsg.): 100 years of women's studies at the University of Tübingen 1904 - 2004 . Tübingen 2007, p. 369-371 ( handle.net ).
• Melanie Stelly: The Stuttgart girls' high school as a trailblazer for women's studies in Tübingen . In: Equal Opportunities Office of the University of Tübingen (Hrsg.): 100 years of women's studies at the University of Tübingen 1904 - 2004 . Tübingen 2007, p. 43-47 ( handle.net ).