Cora Berliner

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Cora Berliner (born January 23, 1890 in Hanover ; died probably in Maly Trostinez in 1942 ) was a German economist and social scientist and a victim of the Holocaust . She was a pioneer of social work , then called welfare.

Life

Stumbling block at the house, Emser Strasse 37, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Cora Berliner was the fifth and youngest child of the Jewish commercial school director Manfred Berliner and his wife Hanna, geb. Dessau. The brother Siegfried Berliner was a physicist. Her uncles were Emil , Jacob and Joseph Berliner .

Cora Berliner received the usual training for girls of her class at the time. After completing her external Abitur at a boys' high school, she studied mathematics and political and social sciences in Berlin and Heidelberg , and received her doctorate in 1916 with distinction. The topic of the dissertation was “The Organization of Jewish Youth in Germany. A contribution to the systematics of youth care and youth movement ”. On February 23, 1919 she was elected to the city council of Schöneberg on the list of the DDP . Until 1919 she worked as an employee in the Schöneberg city administration, from 1910 to 1924 at the Association of Jewish Youth Associations as a department head, as managing director and later as chairwoman of the board in Heidelberg. There she gave lectures on the subject of “The social worker in the city administration” in 1918. In 1919 Cora Berliner joined the civil service as an employee in the Reich Ministry of Economics . According to the Vossische Zeitung of January 4, 1920, she was the first woman in a Reich Ministry. In 1923 she became a member of the government and one of the heads of the Reichswirtschaftsamt .

In 1927 she went to London as a consultant in the economic department of the German embassy . In 1930 she became a professor of economics at the Vocational Education Institute in Berlin.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , she was dismissed from civil service in 1933. She worked in the Reich Association of Jews in Germany , among other things as head of the emigration department, in teacher training and as deputy chairwoman of the Jewish Women's Association . She campaigned for the establishment of a seminar for the training of kindergarten teachers and nannies , promoted the Jewish welfare system and the professional interests of the welfare workers (including Alice Salomon ). On June 26, 1942, Cora Berliner was deported to Minsk on Transport II / 10 together with other employees of the Reichsvereinigung . From then on, little is known about her further fate. There are indications that Cora Berliner and all those deported with her were murdered in Maly Trostinez, Belarus, near Minsk.

A memorial stone commemorates Cora Berliner in the Jewish cemetery in Hanover.

Honors

Berlin street sign of Cora-Berliner-Strasse with dedication

In Berlin-Mitte , a street by the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is named after Cora Berliner.

In the center of Hanover , the footpath and cycle path between the opera house and the memorial for the murdered Jews of Hanover was named after her.

On October 29, 2013 , a stumbling block was laid for you in front of your former home in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , Emser Straße 37 .

Fonts

  • The organization of Jewish youth in Germany: A contribution to the systematics of youth care and youth movement. Phil. Diss. Heidelberg. Berlin: Verl. D. Association d. Jewish youth associations in Germany, 1916. 67 p. online version
  • The emigration of women. In: Jewish news sheet. 1939, No. 56 (July 14, 1939), p. 2 online version .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Gottwaldt / Schulle, Die "Judendeportationen" [...] (2005): 240-42
personal data
SURNAME Berliner, Cora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berliner, Kora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH after June 26, 1942
Place of death Maly Trostinez