Elisabeth Bamberger

Elisabeth Bamberger (born December 13, 1890 in Erding , † September 23, 1984 in Munich ) was a German economist and, as a co-founder of family welfare, a pioneer of social work .

Live and act

She was the oldest of three children of the district judge Ludwig Bamberger and his wife Maria, née Bast. Elisabeth and her two younger siblings grew up in a well-off and Christian-liberal family that attached great importance to education, culture, tradition and social help. As one of the first girls in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria, she passed her Abitur as a private student at a boys' grammar school in Munich. After a few years of being a housemaid , she studied at the University of Munich a . a. Political economy. In 1922 she finished her studies with a doctorate. The topic of her dissertation was: The financial management in the German territories of the Middle Ages (1200-1500) . Your academic work was done withrated summa cum laude .

After completing her studies, she joined the city of Munich as a head nurse to set up and manage family welfare . The concept of family welfare sought the uniformity of welfare welfare. Unnecessary overlaps and duplication of care for young people, health and family education, legal and economic measures should be avoided. In addition, she taught economics at the social charity women's school , which was founded in 1909 by Ellen Ammann . During the Nazi dictatorship, she was able to stay in office because Elisabeth Bamberger performed her duties with wisdom and political reserve .

Since she was not a member of the NSDAP , after the collapse of the Nazi dictatorship, she was temporarily appointed head of the city youth welfare office. She immediately began building up and expanding family welfare. But the mistrust of the American military government regarding its political past led to a transfer to a subordinate position to the district government of Upper Bavaria. In 1950 Elisabeth Bamberger was rehabilitated and she headed the Munich city youth welfare office until her retirement (1955). In this function, she has been instrumental in the reconstruction of the Munich orphanage since she was acting head of the city youth welfare office.

In 1949, Elisabeth Bamberger founded the journal Our Youth , which still exists today. Furthermore, she was involved in the work group for youth welfare , in the German Association for Public and Private Welfare , on the board of the Association for Mother and Child Protection and the German Youth Institute, etc.

In 1960 Elisabeth Bamberger was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

The former home school of the Amalie-Nacken Children's Home in Dachau was / bears her name, which was moved to Karlsfeld in 2011 .

Works

• To family welfare, in: Our youth 1950, pp. 327-330
• The incomplete family, in: Special print from the intelligence service of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare 1954, pp. 1–4
• Reform of the public educational aid, in: Our youth 1957, S. 400–406
• Utopia of a youth welfare office, in: Neue Sammlung 1967, pp. 453–458

swell

• Manfred Berger : Bamberger, Elisabeth , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 55-57
• Manfred Berger: Who was ... Elisabeth Bamberger ?, in: Sozialmagazin 2002 / H. 12, pp. 6-9
• Miriam Kappelsberger: Elisabeth Bamberger - your life and work. A contribution to the history of welfare / welfare in Munich, Munich 2000
• Andreas Mehringer : Memory of Elisabeth Bamberger, in: Our youth 1984, p. 433

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kappelsberger 2000, p. 37
2. ↑ cf. Kappelsberger, p. 101 ff.
3. ↑ Receipt of the Dachau school ( memento of the original from July 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.