Erna Meyer

Erna Konstanze Fanny Karoline Meyer (born February 13, 1890 in Berlin as Erna Pollack ; died March 1975 in Haifa , Israel ) was a German, later Israeli economist and publicist . She was considered one of the most important " budget experts " of the Weimar Republic .

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Mayer received his doctorate in economics from the University of Berlin in 1913; her dissertation “The household of a senior civil servant in the years 1880-1906, examined using economic calculations” was considered a “pilot study” of the advisory literature on economic household and lifestyle; it was later published in a modified form in the writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik .

Meyer wrote the book The New Household , which advocated rational household management and which reached 40 editions in Germany between 1926 and 1932 and which was also published in Dutch. In 1927 she worked on the planning of the various Stuttgart kitchens for the Werkbund exhibition "The Apartment" in Stuttgart; the following year, in 1928, she supported Hanna Löv and Walther Schmidt in developing the Munich kitchen . In 1929 she and her husband Arnold Meyer founded the specialist magazine “Neue Hauswirtschaft”, which was published by Thienemann . Furthermore, she wrote a housekeeping book and other advisory literature such as Cooking fast and fresh for the summer table! In 1930, supported by the Palestinian Association of the International Zionist Women's Organization , the cookbook How do you cook in Erez Israel? , who recommended the use of locally grown vegetables and Mediterranean herbs as well as oriental spices for the kitchen in Israel .

After the takeover of the Nazis in 1933 Meyer was dismissed on racial grounds as editor of the magazine "New Home Economics". She emigrated to Palestine , where she was able to use her skills in housekeeping and the rationalization of housework for the country's development work. There she worked as an author, housekeeping manager in a children's village and as a teacher at a vocational school in Jerusalem. Books such as kitchen slips were created in times of crisis , which, like the Israel Cookbook, achieved several editions.

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↑ Erna Meyer The kitchen problem at the Werkbund exhibition Die Form. Monthly magazine for design work, 2 (1927), No. 1., pp. 299–307

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SURNAME	Meyer, Erna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pollack, Erna Konstanze Fanny Karoline (maiden name); Meyer, Erna Konstanze Fanny Karoline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German, later Israeli economist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	March 1975
Place of death	Haifa

[1] Erna Meyer The kitchen problem at the Werkbund exhibition Die Form. Monthly magazine for design work, 2 (1927), No. 1., pp. 299–307