Frida Salzberg-Heins

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Frida (also called: Frieda) Elisa Margareta Salzberg-Heins (born September 26, 1893 in Hanover , † September 28, 1993 in Hamburg ) was a German senior teacher .

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Frida Salzberg-Heins came from a middle-class family of teachers and decided to become a teacher herself. In 1914 she began studying at the University of Freiburg and the University of Magdeburg, studying German, English and philosophy. In 1921 she received the qualification to teach higher girls' schools. In 1922 she converted to the Jewish faith in order to be able to get married, but did not quit the Lutheran Church. In the same year she married Max Salzberg , who was blind and a former fellow student. The couple moved into an apartment in Wandsbek together .

In 1926, Salzberg-Heins got a position as senior teacher. She taught at a private girls' school at Tesdorpfstrasse 16 / Heimhuderstrasse 12 and quickly became extremely popular with her students. Her husband, who was also of Jewish faith, taught Hebrew as a private teacher until 1938. During the National Socialist era , the teacher was ostracized and disenfranchised because of her husband. In 1939 she was dismissed and lost her entitlement to retirement benefits. Together with her husband, Salzberg-Heins tried to emigrate several times, but it did not succeed. Both spent the war years in a so-called " Jewish house " in Hamburg, where Salzberg-Heins secretly gave private lessons.

After the end of World War II , Salzberg-Heins managed to get her old position back in 1945. In 1946 she was promoted to deputy senior director of the girls' school and held the position until her retirement in 1959. Salzberg-Heins and her husband, who died in 1954, lived in the apartment in the Grindelviertel all their lives . In the winter of 1961/62, Frida Salzberg-Heins made a one-off trip to Israel, where she was greeted by many of her husband's former students who had emigrated. The teacher died two days after her 100th birthday.

The life of the Salzberg couple was documented in an exhibition in the Altona Museum in 1998 .

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SURNAME Salzberg-Heins, Frida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salzberg-Heins, Frieda; Salzberg-Heins, Frida Elisa Margareta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German senior teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1993
Place of death Hanover