Charlotte Leubuscher

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Charlotte Leubuscher (born July 24, 1888 in Jena ; died June 2, 1961 in London ) was a German-British social and economic scientist.

Life

Born as the daughter of the secret medical councilor Georg Leubuscher , she attended the Bernhardinum grammar school in Meiningen , where she was the first girl to ever pass the Abitur. She then studied economics , history, philosophy and law in Cambridge, Giessen, Munich and Berlin. In 1913 she received her doctorate. phil. In 1921 she completed her habilitation with Heinrich Herkner at the University of Berlin, working on Socialism and Socialization in England . Her habilitation was the third by a woman and the first outside of science there. In 1923 she was given a lectureship in foreign social policy, particularly in England and Russia, at the University of Göttingen . In 1924 she moved to the University of Berlin, where she was appointed associate professor in 1929.

Grave of Charlotte Leubuscher in Berlin-Kreuzberg

In 1933 the “ half-Jewish ” Leubuscher was withdrawn from teaching. She emigrated to England and taught at various universities, including Cambridge, Manchester and the London School of Economics . There she continued her work on the colonial economy. Leubuscher was one of the first female economists to focus on development economics. Her estate is in the Meiningen State Archives .

Charlotte Leubuscher died in London in 1961 at the age of almost 73. She was buried in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Berlin-Kreuzberg , where her grandfather Rudolf Leubuscher (1821–1861) had also found his final resting place a century earlier . Both graves are preserved.

Fonts (selection)

  • Socialism and Socialization in England (1921)
  • Aims and means of trade policy in the British Dominions (1926)
  • Liberalism and Protectionism in English Economic Policy since the War (1927)

literature

  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1108.
  • Klemens Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile. 1933–1945 , Münster; Hamburg: Lit., 1991 (dissertation from 1989), p. 67 f.
  • Elisabeth Dickmann, Eva Schöck-Quinteros (Ed.): Refuge Exile? Jewish women scientists in emigration 1933 to 1945 [= series of the Hedwig Hintze Institute Bremen, vol. 9], trafo Verlag 2005.
  • Philine Scholze: Charlotte Leubuscher (1888–1961). A political scientist of the first generation of women scientists . Master's thesis Berlin (HU) 1999.
  • Theresa Wobbe : Leubuscher, Charlotte Anna Pauline. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 376-378.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 233.
personal data
SURNAME Leubuscher, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leubuscher, Charlotte Anna Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social and economic scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1961
Place of death London