Anna Warburg

Anna Beata Warburg (born December 27, 1881 in Stockholm , † June 8, 1967 in Netzer Sereni ) was a kindergarten teacher and teacher .

Live and act

Anna Warburg was the daughter of the banker Siegfried Samuel Warburg and his wife Ellen Josephoson. As a member of the Warburg family , her father decided decades before she was born to leave Hamburg for Sweden because of the orthodox structures of the Jewish community . Anna Warburg had three sisters and grew up without her father, who died early. At the age of 14 she attended educational courses in Stockholm. At the invitation of her uncle Aby Warburg , she went to Hamburg in 1896. There she looked after her uncle's children and attended the Froebel seminar. After completing her training, she worked as a kindergarten teacher for seven and a half years. She looked after children of a Hamburg family and worked in a kindergarten in Stockholm.

In 1908, at the age of 27, she married Fritz Warburg , who was a second cousin. The couple first lived in Hamburg at Fontenay 5, had a summer residence on Kösterberg in Blankenese and later moved into an apartment at Mittelweg 17. The couple had three daughters: Ingrid , Eva and Charlotte Esther (Noni) . Anna Warburg came from a humble background and was always critical of the wealth and traditions of the Hamburg-based banking family. In 1909 she went to the Froebelhaus, where she was supposed to train future kindergarten teachers. In 1910 she took over the chairmanship of the institution and was involved in reforms of waiting schools . In addition, she called for the establishment of other people's kindergartens in addition to the existing kindergartens in the Froebelhaus and a facility in Hamburg-Hamm . Anna Warburg's ideas were quickly implemented by opening another kindergarten on Wrangelstrasse in 1911. During the First World War , Warburg pursued their plans. As a result of her efforts, the Hamburg Society for Charity opened a department for young children in 1914. In 1916 the company founded a so-called "model waiting school". According to this concept, modern day care centers were built from eight existing waiting schools by 1918.

From 1916 to 1920 Anna Warburg lived with her family in the Swedish capital. There she founded the Swedish Froebel Association. She also made friends with Elsa Brändström . In the 1920s Warburg worked as a consultant for August Hellmann , who was the director of the youth authority in Hamburg. She took over the chairmanship of the school association, which in 1927 became part of the “Committee for Children's Institutions”. V. “renamed. After the seizure of power , Anna Warburg had to leave the board of the Froebel Kindergarten association due to her Jewish origins. She also left the Froebel seminar and founded a seminar for Jewish kindergarten teachers. In the family estate on the Kösterberg in Blankenese, she offered Jewish children a refuge. She also had residential barracks built for use by oppressed Jewish families.

In May 1939 Anna Warburg emigrated to Sweden with her family. Her husband had already been arrested and had the passport necessary for the departure back through the mediation of Cornelius von Berenberg-Gossler . The condition was that the necessary amount of money went to 100 Jewish children and poor people. After the end of the Second World War , Anna Warburg, who was working as a kindergarten teacher again, wished to stay in Sweden with her family. In 1961 the couple moved to Israel, where their daughters Eva and Charlotte Esther were already living. Anna Warburg died there in June 1967 at the age of 85.

The White House

The Children of Blankenese is a German TV docudrama from 2010. The setting is the so-called “White House” of the Warburg family in Hamburg-Blankenese . “The entire property on the Kösterberg in Blankenese was requisitioned during the National Socialist rule. [..] After the end of World War II, Erik Warburg , having returned from exile, received the possessions on the Kösterberg such as u. a. the white house back. The Warburg family made the White House and the Red House available from 1946–1948 for the accommodation of children and young people who had been liberated as survivors in the concentration camps (especially Bergen-Belsen) by the Allied troops. ”In the White House , Also known as Warburg Chiidrens Health Home , the children freed from the concentration camp experienced “care and warmth. Their teachers hugged them, kissed them, combed their hair, looked after and looked after the frightened children. Most of them have never forgotten this tenderness. In Israel they founded an association and were always in contact with Eva Warburg-Unger, Eric Warburg's cousin, who looked after them and now lives in Israel. "

In 1948 the Warburg family decided to make the White House and the Red House available for social work. With the support of Erik Warburg, the non-profit association "Elsa Brändström House in the German Red Cross eV" was founded in 1950.

literature

• Dirk Brietzke : Warburg, Anna . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 398-399 .
• Walter Thorun : "I want to revive my enthusiasm for the cause!" Anna Warburg 1881 - 1967 , in Sabine Hering ed., With Sandra Schönauer: Jewish welfare in the mirror of biographies. Series of publications History of Jewish Welfare in Germany, 2nd ed. Hering, Gudrun Maierhof, Ulrich Stascheit. Fachhochschulverlag, Frankfurt 2007 ISBN 3936065802 pp. 416–423

Web links

• Manfred Berger : Women in the history of kindergarten: Anna Warburg on Kindergartenpaedagogik.de. Retrieved September 8, 2015
• Manfred Berger: A life for kindergarten. Anna Warburg 1881–1967, in: Elbkinder Vereinigung Hamburger Kitas gGmbH (Ed.): 100 Years Elbkinder, Hamburg 2019, pp. 48–51
• Anna Warburg Curriculum vitae of Anna Warburg on the Anna Warburg School homepage. Retrieved September 8, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For the three children of Aby Warburg see: The family of Aby Warburg
2. ↑ ^{a b} History of the White House in Blankenese
3. ^ The children of Blankenese