Dora Peyser

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Dora Peyser (born February 22, 1904 in Berlin ; † February 15, 1970 in Turramurra , Sydney , Australia) was a German-Australian social worker of Jewish descent.

Life

She was the second of four children of the ear, nose and throat specialist Alfred Peyser and his wife Sofie geb. Fraenkel. The father was chairman of the Jewish reform community in Berlin. After attending the lyceum , she completed her training as a hoarder at the renowned Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus (PFH) in Berlin from 1921 to 1922 and attended a housekeeping course at the same training center. She then worked in a girls' day care center and in a children's rest home. From 1924 to 1925 Dora Peyser trained as an infant and child nurse at Hugo Neumanns Kinderhaus . She then attended the social women's school founded by Alice Salomon in 1908 for two years . In 1927 she passed the state examination to become a welfare nurse. After that she was Alice Salomon's personal assistant and secretary until 1934. She also taught life skills and community studies at the PFH's nanny school . On the advice of her boss, she made up her high school diploma and then studied sociology, philosophy, history and economics at Berlin University from 1930 to 1934. She completed her doctorate magna cum laude . After the election victory of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in the Reichstag election in March 1933 , she had to give up all her offices because of her Jewish descent. While her father stayed in Germany for five years, she emigrated to Australia in 1934. There she worked as a district nurse . She also taught German at the University of Sydney , revised her doctoral thesis, which she published in Australia in 1951, and wrote the first extensive biography on Alice Salomon. After a long period of suffering, she succumbed to Parkinson's disease .

Works

  • Help as a sociological phenomenon . Triltsch, Würzburg 1934
  • The History of Welfare Work in Sydney from 1788-1920 , Sydney 1951
  • The Strong and the Weak . Currawong, Sydney 1951
  • Alice Salomon. A picture of life , in: Hans Muthesius (Ed.): Alice Salomon. The founder of the social women's profession in Germany. Her life and her work, Cologne / Berlin 1958, pp. 11–149

literature

  • Peter Reinicke : Peyser, Dora , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 467f.
  • Richard Strauss: Dora Peyser. Your life and work, Munich 2002
  • Diana Schmaus: Dora Peyser's (uncritical and incorrect) biography about Alice Salomon, the founder of the social women's profession in Germany. A contribution to the histography of social work , Munich 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz95126.html
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Help as a sociological phenomenon .
  3. ↑ cf. Feast 2012
personal data
SURNAME Peyser, Dora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Australian social worker
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1970
Place of death Turramurra , Sydney , Australia