Frieda Wunderlich

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Frieda Wunderlich (born November 8, 1884 in Charlottenburg ; died December 9, 1965 in East Orange , New Jersey ) was a German economist and sociologist , university teacher and politician ( DDP, DStP ).

Life and work

Frieda Wunderlich was born into a Jewish family. After attending school, she began studying economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , which she obtained in 1919 with a doctorate (summa cum laude) as a Dr. phil. (Dissertation: Hugo Münsterberg's importance for national economy , published 1920). She then taught as a lecturer at the Handelshochschule Berlin and wrote her habilitation thesis. In July 1930 she was offered a professorship for sociology and social policy at the State Vocational Education Institute in Berlin .

In addition, from 1923 to 1933 (as the successor to Ignaz Jastrow ) she was the editor of the Berlin weekly newspaper Soziale Praxis , in which she published numerous articles on labor and social policy issues. In 1924/25 she also worked as a judge at the Supreme Social Insurance Court.

In 1933 she emigrated to the United States after receiving a professorship at the newly founded New School for Social Research in New York City . She then taught at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School ( University in Exile ) until 1954 . After Emil Lederer's death in 1939, she was the first woman to become dean of a US university faculty.

In addition to her academic career, she has published numerous socio-political works.

Political activity

Frieda Wunderlich joined the DDP, from which the German State Party (DStP) emerged in 1930.

She was a city ​​councilor in Berlin from 1925 to 1933 . From March 19, 1930, when she replaced the late MP Reinhold Otto , until 1932 she was a member of the Prussian state parliament . In parliament she mainly dealt with social issues and labor market policy .

Fonts (selection)

  • War Welfare Handbook (Ed. Nationaler Frauendienst), 1916
  • Hugo Münsterberg's importance for political economy , 1920
  • The fight against unemployment in Germany , 1925
  • Productivity , Jena 1926
  • Struggle for social security , 1930
  • Insurance and Welfare , 1930
  • Labor under German Democracy , 1940
  • British Labor and the War , 1941
  • German Labor Courts , 1947
  • Farm Labor in Germany , 1960

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Stang: The German Democratic Party in Prussia 1918-1933. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994. p. 374.
personal data
SURNAME Wonderful, Frieda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, university professor and politician ( DDP , DStP)
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1965
Place of death East Orange , New Jersey