Fanny Ollendorff

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Fanny Ollendorff , nee Fanny Baer , Hebrew פאני / פני אולנדורף(born September 7, 1893 in Halberstadt , died 1983 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli pioneer of social work in Germany , Palestine and later in Israel .

Life and education

Fanny Baer was born on September 7, 1893 in Halberstadt. Her parents were Joseph Baer, ​​who was connected to the brass works in Eberswalde near Berlin , and Rosalie Baer, ​​née Dessau. They were a family with eight children. Among them was Helene Barth (1891–1982), who emigrated to Palestine in 1924 and was both a teacher and a social worker .

Baer headed the Jewish daycare center in Halberstadt during World War I and attended a Red Cross course . She devoted herself to family and child care. In 1918 she attended the Social Women's School in Munich with Frieda Duensing before completing her training at the Social Women's School in Berlin-Schöneberg with Alice Salomon . In the late 1920s she attended courses at the Berlin School of Politics .

Jewish social work in Germany

From 1921, Baer first worked as a youth leader and later as manager of the Jewish Volksheim in Berlin. There she met Friedrich Ollendorff , a leading Jewish social worker in Germany and later in Palestine. They married in 1923. For a short time she worked in the central office for private welfare in Berlin. From 1926 to 1929 she was a social worker in Dr. Neumann's children's home.

Contribution to the development of social work in Palestine and Israel

Like many other Zionist social workers, Fanny Ollendorff decided shortly after the Nazis came to power to flee to Palestine and to support the establishment of a welfare system there. In 1934 she emigrated with her husband. After emigrating, she began working as a social worker in the Lishkat Sozialith des Va'ad ha-Kehillah and, together with Henrietta Szold in Jerusalem, founded social work in Palestine under the British mandate. She then became deputy managing director and later took over the management. In 1947 she went to the USA with her husband and continued their social work training there. After their return and the end of the war in Israel , social work became part of the city administration.

After the death of her husband in 1951, she quit her work in the community and began working in the Ministry of Welfare (Misrad ha-Sa'ad). She led a course for students in Beth Shemesh and later in Haifa . Then she headed the social welfare office in Kiryat Gat . As in Beth Shemesh , she mainly worked with immigrants. She later led a course for academically trained social workers. After her retirement, she volunteered in the social field. In the 1960s she was involved with Hilde Lotan in community projects in Jerusalem for young people and the elderly.

Fanny Ollendorff died in Jerusalem in 1983.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ollendorff, Fanny (née Baer). Jewish-German Social Workers in Germany and Mandatory Palestine / Israel, accessed on January 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ Halpern, Ayana / Lau, Dayana: Social Work Between Germany and Mandatory Palestine: Pre- and Post-Immigration Biographies of Female Jewish Practitioners as a Case Study of Professional Reconstruction . In: Naharaim . tape 2019 , no. 3 , p. 163-188 .
  3. ↑ Peter Reinicke: "The welfare work must fit into the overall Jewish life!" Friedrich Ollendorff (1889-1951) . In: Sabine Hering (ed.): Jewish charity in the mirror of biographies . Fachhochschul-Verlag, 2007, p. 328 .
  4. ^ Weinreich, Frieda: From social work in Palestine - impressions and experiences . Jewish Welfare and Social Policy, No. 8 , 1938, pp. 121 .
  5. ↑ Central Zionist Archives : Friedrich Ollendorff Collection (A 70/8)
personal data
SURNAME Ollendorff, Fanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baer, ​​Fanny (maiden name); פאני / פני אולנדורף (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli pioneer of social work in Germany, Palestine and later in Israel
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1983
Place of death Jerusalem