Fanny du Bois-Reymond

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Fanny Renee du Bois-Reymond (born July 4, 1891 in Berlin , † March 18, 1990 in Rickenbach ) was a German gardener . She was one of the employees of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research , who was dismissed in 1933/1934 for racist reasons. From 1945 she lived in Switzerland and worked as an English translator of psychotherapeutic writings at the Jungian School .

Life

Fanny and her siblings came from famous and wealthy families, the Mendelssohn family and the du Bois-Reymond family, from both parents. Fanny's mother, Lili du Bois-Reymond, was the daughter of Sebastian Hensel, the only son from the marriage of the composer Fanny Hensel (1805–1847), née. Mendelssohn - who called herself Mendelsohn Bartholdy after Protestant baptism in 1816 - with the Prussian court painter Wilhelm Hensel (1794–1861). Fanny du Bois-Reymond was the eldest daughter of Lili du Bois-Reymond , b. Hensel, and Alard du Bois-Reymond (1860-1922), an electrical engineer and patent attorney. Around the time of the First World War, she attended one of the early horticultural schools for women, the Marienhöhe Horticultural School in Plön , founded in 1909 . During the First World War , she supported the development of her parents' garden in Plön. After the death of her father - he had an accident with Fanny's younger brother Roland in a boat accident - the property there had to be given up in December 1922 and Fanny went to the head gardener Else Hoffa on the Kösterberg in Blankenese as an assistant . There she expanded her horticultural knowledge in the gardens of the banker Max Warburg , who was a friend of her family.

From 1927 she worked as a gardener and technical assistant for Hans Stubbe at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research . According to the law for the restoration of the civil service , she was considered “non- Aryan ” because her maternal great-grandmother, Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn), had Jewish roots due to her descent from ancestor Moses Mendelssohn. With regard to the maternal grandmother, Julie von Adelson, Fanny's relatives from the Hensel family had to keep a bitter Aryan certificate. Erwin Baur had already refused to dismiss her on the basis of the law in May 1933 and asked the General Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society , Friedrich Glum , for her to be submitted to the responsible ministry on June 19, 1933 by KWG President Max Planck Execution of the law for the restoration of civil servants of April 7, 1933 as a so-called " hardship " to keep The KWG argued that she was a granddaughter of the famous Emil du Bois-Reymond and that her late father and her brothers had earned great merit in the First World War . A year later she had to be released.

From 1934 she operated a mushroom cultivation in the Babelsberg district of Potsdam . In 1935 Fanny du Bois-Reymond began training as a psychoanalyst and worked as such in Potsdam from 1938. In particular, she inspired Carl Gustav Jung and she was also a member of the Berlin CG Jung Society, which was founded in 1931 and entered in the register of associations in July 1934 .

In 1939 she became a member of the so-called " Göring Institute ".

After the air raid on Potsdam , she was driven from her house by the Soviet troops. Through her ancestors she was still entitled to a Swiss passport and arrived in Switzerland via several refugee camps at Christmas 1945, where her mother and sister Eleonora, known as "Lola" (1894–1977), had already moved and in Zurich - Wollishofen lived. While still in the quarantine camp near Neuchâtel NE , she sent a letter to CG Jung. She was interested in topics relating to the wife and mother very early on. English was spoken in the house of her grandfather Emil du Bois-Reymond, so she was fluent in English . She translated Woman's Mysteries, published in 1936 by Mary Harding , also a Jung follower, at Longmans, Green & Co. Ancient and modern: A psychological interpretation of the feminine principle as portrayed in myth, story, and dreams. into German and published the book in 1949 with the Zurich Rascher Verlag. The recommendation for this translation work came from CG Jung through his confidante Antonia, known as "Toni" Wolff , who also recommended the publisher to her. However, Jung refused the collaboration she had longed for.

Fanny du Bois-Reymond always stated the occupation “psychotherapist” in her Swiss places of residence. Later she turned to the teaching of Karlfried Graf Dürckheim and lived in Todtmoos for a time in the 1950s . For him she translated his book Hara into English. In 1959 she published the travel book about Greece, which was translated from Francis King's model, in the Max Niehans publishing house in Zurich . But since she could not find a job in the psychological field with which she could earn a living, in 1948 she took a job as a gardener in the Alpinum of the civil engineer and contractor Dr. Giovanni Rodio (1888–1957) in Champfèr (Engadin), which she had to give up in old age due to a rheumatic disease . She spent her twilight years in the Waerland home "Haus Friedborn" (today the Friedborn Health Center) in Rickenbach.

Her ashes were buried in the family grave in the old cemetery in Plön.

Publications

Posts:

  • To the virginity of the Mother of God. In: Zentralblatt für Psychotherapie , No. 11 (1939), pp. 346–359.
  • Review of the book by Briffault, R .: The Mothers'. London 1927. In: Zentralblatt für Psychotherapie , 15 (1943), pp. 176-180.
  • About the archetypal conditioning of the firstborn son and his mother. In: Swiss Journal for Psychology , IX (1950), pp. 37–52.
  • The immortal Oedipus. In: Psyche , 9 (1955/56), pp. 627-633.

Book translations:

  • Women mysteries. Then and now. Rascher Verlag, Zurich 1949. [Translation from the American based on Mary Esther Harding]
  • Greece. A travel book. Max Niehans Verlag, Zurich 1956. [Translation from English after Francis King]

literature

  • Fanny du Bois-Reymond. In: Christiane Ludwig-Körner: Rediscovered. Psychoanalysts in Berlin. Psychosozial-Verlag, Berlin 1999, pp. 44-67. ISBN 978-3-932-13320-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gravestones in the old Plön cemetery. genealogy.net.
  2. ^ Rudolf Elvers , Hans-Günter Klein: The Mendelssohns in Berlin. A family and their city. Exhibition of the Mendelssohn archive of the State Library PK 1984. Berlin 1984, p. 57.
  3. ^ Marion Heine: The Marienhöhe horticultural school in Plön . As a contribution in: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde im Kreis Plön, Volume 46, 2016, pp. 5–57.
  4. ^ Marion Heine: In the footsteps of the family du Bois-Reymond (Part I and Part II) . As contributions in: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde im Kreis Plön, 48th year, 2018, pp. 75–118 and Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde im Kreis Plön, 49th vol, 2019, pp. 83–140.
  5. ↑ a b Reinhard Rürup : Fates and Careers. Memorial book for the researchers expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society by the National Socialists. Wallstein Verlag, 2008, pp. 64, 85, 86. ISBN 978-3-892-44797-9
  6. ↑ Erwin Baur. Science and politics. Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (Ed.), 1994, pp. 82, 83.
  7. ↑ Ulrike Kohl: The Presidents of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism. Max Planck, Carl Bosch and Albert Vögler between science and power. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, p. 89. ISBN 978-3-515-08049-1
  8. ↑ du Bois-Reymond, Fanny. In: Annette Vogt : Scientists in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes A – Z. Archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, 2008, p. 50.
  9. ↑ Hs 1069: 1065-1111 D-Fordham. In: Giovanni Sorge: Research Collection Report Description of the files on the history of the presidency of CGJung in the International Medical Society for Psychotherapy, 1933–1940 in the estate of CA Meier CG Jung-Arbeitsarchiv, ETH-Bibliothek, ETH Zurich University Archive . 2016, p. 53. ( PDF )
  10. ↑ a b see reference to the rediscovered by Christiane Ludwig-Körner
personal data
SURNAME Bois-Reymond, Fanny you
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bois Reymond, Fanny Renee du (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gardener, psychoanalyst and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1990
Place of death Rickenbach