Emmy Wolff

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Emmy Wolff (also Wolf ; born December 25, 1890 in Bernburg an der Saale ; † November 9, 1969 in Haslemere , Surrey / England) was a German-British pedagogue , welfare worker, poet, and female journalist and activist .

Live and act

She was the eldest of three children of the banker Paul Wolff and his wife Julie, b. Flow. The mother volunteered in the local Jewish community. Wolff attended a secondary school for girls and then a girls' boarding school. From 1915 to 1918 she graduated from the University for Women in Leipzig. She then continued her studies in Munich and Frankfurt am Main . Wolff completed her diploma as a social and administrative officer. In 1924 she received her doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. at Frankfurt University about a girls' club and the circle of origin of its members. A contribution to the problem of recording female youth in school by youth care workers on a women-related topic.

In 1925 Wolff became assistant to the Reichstag politician Gertrud Bäumer , who appointed her to the editorial team of the magazine Die Hilfe (responsible: Theodor Heuss). From 1927 to 1931 she was managing director of the Federation of German Women's Associations (BDF). In this role she edited the news paper of the Federation of German Women's Associations with Alice Bensheimer (Ida Dehmel's sister) for three years . In addition, Wolff published the yearbook of the women's movement 1927 / 28–31 on behalf of the BDF and published articles for the bourgeois-conservative journal of the women's movement Die Frau . She also worked as a lecturer at the German Academy for Social and Educational Women’s Work and in the social educational seminar of the youth home association .

Wolff's long-term partner, Hilde Lion , left Berlin soon after taking power and went to England. There she founded the Stoatley Rough School , a Quaker institution. In 1935 Wolff followed her life partner. The two women worked at the Stoatley Rough School for many years , even when Lion turned to another woman, the music teacher Luise Leven .

In 1957 Emmy Wolff retired. She only visited Germany sporadically.

Works (selection)

  • The social youth communities, their development and their goal, in: Die Frau 1920, 28th year, no.3
  • A girls' club and the circle of origin of its members. A contribution to the problem of recording female youth at school by youth care, Frankfurt a / M. 1924 (unpublished dissertation)
  • Generations of women in pictures, Berlin 1928
  • Students in today's daily novel, in: Die Frau 1928, 36 vol., P. 482
  • "Women in Need". Reflections on an art exhibition, in: Die Frau 1931, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 99-104
  • The woman in the German people. Overall impression of the exhibition Berlin 1933 [The woman in family, home and work], in: Die Frau, H. 7, vol. 40, pp. 421–432
  • Hymns to loneliness, in: Der Morgen, 1935/36, issue 11, p. 490
  • The social youth communities, their development and their goal , in: Third generation. For Gertrud Baeumer , ed. by Hilde Lion, Irmgard Rathgen and Else Ulich-Beil,

literature

  • Manfred Berger : Leading women in social responsibility: Emmy Wolff, in: Christ und Bildung 1995, H. 7–8, S. 229.
  • Manfred Berger: Wolff, Emmy, in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who in social work, Freiburg / Brsg. 1998, pp. 367-368.
  • Sigrid Dauks: The 'women's studies' in the social and economic sciences between 1890 and 1933 using the example of the teacher Emmy Wolff, in: Elisabeth Dickmann (Ed.): Politics and Profession. Women in the world of work and science around 1900, Bremen 1996, pp. 121–152.
  • Manfred Berger: Hilde Lion - founder of a rural education home in exile in England, in: Zeitschrift für Erlebnispädagogik, 2004, pp. 48–62.
  • Walter Thorun : German social pedagogues. You also wrote poems: Eine Anthologie, Hamburg 2001.
  • Klemens Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile 1933–1945, Hamburg 1991, p. 130.
  • Manfred Berger: Wolff, Emmy, Dr. rer. pole. In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 452-453
  • Wolff, Emmy , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 391
  • Wolff, Emmy , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economics, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 832

Web links

  • Emmy Wolff in the wiki of the women's history association Cologne

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berger 1998, p. 637 f.
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 20, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geo.brown.edu
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Emmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Emmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish pedagogue, welfare worker, poet as well as publicist and activist active in women
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1969
Place of death Haslemere , Surrey / England