Fanny Zobel

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Fanny Zobel (* 19 June 1872 in Berlin as Fanny Vandsburger ; † 1958 in Rio de Janeiro ) was the days of the Weimar Republic, a Berlin local politician of the DDP .

Live and act

Coming from a wealthy family, Fanny Zobel married the Jewish merchant Carl Zobel (1864–1945) in 1892. He was the owner of a clothing store on Köpenicker Strasse . The following year they had a daughter and moved to Treptow around 1900 . At the beginning of the First World War , Fanny Zobel became a member of the "Association of German Patriotic Women's Associations", which belonged to the Federation of German Women's Associations . She got involved in welfare and was the initiator of the first baby care centers in Treptow.

After the end of the First World War, she joined the DDP. In 1919 she was elected to the Treptow municipal council. She was particularly active in child and youth work, advocated the construction of children's rest homes and influenced the youth welfare office established in 1920 in what is now the Berlin district of Treptow . From 1924 she was a district councilor . In 1930 she took up the post of unpaid city ​​councilor in the Treptow district as a member of the party now known as the German State Party , but was "removed from office and on leave" in 1933 after the National Socialists came to power .

In 1938 Fanny Zobel emigrated to Paris with her husband. Her daughter had already been brought there. In 1940 they were granted asylum in Brazil. Fanny Zobel died there in 1958 without having returned to Germany.

Honors

The Fanny-Zobel-Straße in Berlin-Alt-Treptow and the Fanny-Zobel-Brücke in Berlin-Baumschulenweg (local location Späthsfelde ), which opened in 2004, were named after her.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst spring : Today I spoke with ... . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1971, p. 432.
  2. ↑ a b c Fanny-Zobel-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  3. ↑ Joseph Walk: In: Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918-1945. Saur, Munich 1988, p. 148. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive.
  4. ^ Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann: Resistance in Köpenick and Treptow. German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 2010, p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME Sable, Fanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vandsburger, Fanny (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1958
Place of death Rio de Janeiro