Berta Jourdan
Berta Jourdan (born June 21, 1892 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 4, 1981 there ) was a German politician , women's rights activist, and educator. For the SPD she was a member of the Prussian state parliament for four years .
Life
After attending the Jewish girls' school and the Elisabeth school in her hometown, she took the exams for teachers until 1913 and then taught at a Frankfurt elementary school , where from 1917 she devoted herself to mentally handicapped, physically handicapped and behavioral pupils in special classes . After joining the SPD in 1917, she became head of the working group of socialist teachers in Hessen-Nassau . In 1924 she was elected city councilor in Frankfurt. As a party congress delegate for the Hessen-Nassau district, she took part in the nationwide SPD women's party congress. During her time in Frankfurt's Römer , she was particularly involved in school politics until 1928, and here against the denominationalisation of the educational system. She was then a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Prussia in the third legislative period from 1928 to 1932 .
After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, she was dismissed from the public school service due to the law to restore the civil service. Jourdan then ran a private Jewish school in her apartment on Hansaallee. When the Nazi persecution of the Jews increased after the November pogroms in 1938 , after the death of her mother in January 1939 she emigrated to Rhodesia , where she worked as a teacher for young people with educational difficulties in Bulawayo until 1963 . During this time Jourdan was from 1945 to 1956 UN rapporteur for school and educational issues on Rhodesia. Jourdan came back to Frankfurt in 1969 and worked again in party politics in the SPD parliamentary group. The Hessian Ministry of Culture calls her a "fighter against social prejudice".
Honors
- The former Hedwig Heyl School, a vocational school in Frankfurt am Main , has been named after her since 1999 .
literature
- Christl Wickert : socialist, parliamentarian, Jewish. The examples Käthe Frankenthal, Berta Jourdan, Adele Schreiber-Krieger , Toni Sender and Hedwig Wachenheim . In: Ludger Heid , Arnold Paucker (Hrsg.): Jews and German workers' movement until 1933. Mohr Siebeck, 1992.
- Between Romans and Revolution. 1869 - 1969. Hundred years of social democrats in Frankfurt am Main. , published by the SPD, sub-district Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt / M. 1969.
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
Web links
- Berta Jourdan. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Jourdan, Berta. Hessian biography. (As of May 25, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Beier: Labor movement in Hessen . In: The Hessen Library . 2nd Edition. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-458-14213-4 , p. 457 ff . (671 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Rainer Stuebling: trade unionists, social democrats, pacifists in Frankfurt am Main, 1900-1933 , Dipaverlag 1985, ISBN 3-7638-0419-6 , S. 162 ff
- ↑ http://dms.bildung.hessen.de/ereignisse/gedenkenage/juni/index.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Berta Jourdan ( Memento of October 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jourdan, Berta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1981 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |