Gertrud Blank

Gertrud Blank (* 1892 in Hanover ; † 1981 in Tel Aviv ) was a German social worker .

Life

Gertrud (e) ("Trude") Blank was the daughter of Ely Blank (1839–1926), a businessman and manufacturer, and Sophie Blank, née. Levy (1851-1892) from Wallensen (Weserbergland). In contrast to her older siblings, including brother Albert Blank (1885–1963), later co-owner of the carpet factory Otto Kuhlmann & Co in Hameln , and Paula Blank (1887–1967), later a librarian, she was born in Hanover , where her family went was drawn shortly before. She graduated from the women's college for social work in Berlin-Schöneberg from 1913 to 1915 and worked as a welfare worker at the municipal welfare office in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1915 to 1920 . From 1920 to 1933 she was the senior welfare officer at the Berlin Youth and Welfare Court, and also active in caring for those at risk and training welfare workers. From 1932 a member of the Zionist Association for Germany , she was dismissed as a Jew in 1933 under the so-called “ Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ”.

Now she became a welfare worker in the field service of the Central Welfare Office for Jews in Germany in Berlin, in 1934 head of the Jewish welfare office in the province of Magdeburg , and finally from 1934 to 1939 a senior employee of the Jewish Winter Aid and of the Berlin Community and District Welfare . Only in April 1939 did she emigrate to Palestine with an AI certificate from the British Mandate Government (Sister Paula had emigrated to Palestine via Switzerland in 1933, brother Albert with the family to England in 1936). In 1939 she became a member of the Histadrut and the HOG ( Hitachduth Olej Germania ), the association of German immigrants. In Palestine she continued her work: 1942 to 1943 as a welfare worker in women's welfare, 1944 to 1948 in the Ministry of Welfare (where she was responsible for supporting evacuees from Cyprus, among other things), from 1945 as a senior welfare worker in social welfare for former soldiers, 1948 to 1957 as a social worker in the child welfare department of the Ministry of Social Work. Finally, in 1957, she became a volunteer member of the "Association of Former Officials and Employees of Jewish Communities in Germany". She last lived in Tel Aviv with her sister Paula Blank .

literature

• Blank, Gertrud. In: Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933. International biographical dictionary of Central European emigrés 1933–1945. Published by the Inst. Für Zeitgeschichte München and by the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, New York, under the overall direction of Werner Röder and Herbert A. Strauss . Vol. 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life. Red .: Sybille Claus (among others). Munich 1980, ISBN 3-598-10087-6 , p. 68. (This biographical entry is based on your own information.)
• Jewish winter aid. Directives and rules of procedure . Edited by Georg Lubinski and Gertrud Blank. Berlin 1936. Available in the library of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. See German-speaking Jewish communities, newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, almanacs and calendars, unpublished memoirs and memorabilia . Tübingen 1970, p. 79 (catalog / Leo Baeck Institute New York, library and archive. Vol. 1 = series of scientific treatises of the Leo Baeck Institute. 22).

Web links

• Bernhard Gelderblom: The Jewish cemetery in Wallensen Darin about the Jewish Blank family and Gertrud Blank's grandfather David Blank, who lived in Wallensen since 1820 (the family lived in Wallensen until 1890/91). Here is a detailed biography of Gertrud's brother Albert Blank.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All information after the entry in: Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 (see literature).
2. ↑ The Jüdische Winterhilfe was founded in October 1935 by the Reich Representation of Jews in Germany after the Nuremberg Laws were passed, since German Jews were excluded from charitable measures. “Help control the need!” - poster of the Jewish Winter Aid. LEMO Living Museum online, German Historical Museum Berlin
3. ↑ The name in Latin letters from 1932 to 1939 was Hitachduth Olej Germania ( Hebrew הִתְאַחְדוּת עוֹלֵי גֶּרְמַנְיָה Hit'achdūt ʿŌlej Germanjah , German 'Vereinigung der Olim Deutschlands' , HOG; as in the title of Hitachduth Olej Germania's bulletin ), between 1940 and 1942 Hitachdut Olej Germania we Austria ( Hebrew הִתְאַחְדוּת עוֹלֵי גֶּרְמַנְיָה וְאוֹסְטְרִיָה Hit'achdūt ʿŌlej Germanjah we-Ōsṭrijah , German 'Association of Olim Germany and Austria' , acronym: HOGoA; see. Bulletin of Hitachdut Olej Germania we Austria ), then from 1943 to 2006 Irgun Olej Merkas Europa ( Hebrew אִרְגּוּן עוֹלֵי מֶרְכַּז אֵירוֹפָּה Irgūn ʿŌlej Merkaz Ejrōpah , German 'Organization of the Olim Central Europe' ; as in their organ: MB - weekly newspaper of Irgun Olej Merkas Europe ), since then the association has been called the Association of Israelis of Central European Origin ( Hebrew אִרְגּוּן יוֹצְאֵי מֶרְכַּז אֵירוֹפָּה Irgūn Jōtz'ej Merkaz Ejrōpah , German 'Organization of those from Central Europe' ; see. Title of the Yakinton / MB journal: Bulletin of the Association of Israelis of Central European Origin ).