Gertrud Klausner

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Gertrud Klausner (born 1877 in Berlin , died 16th May 1939 ibid ) was a German politician .

family

Gertrud Klausner comes from a Jewish family of scholars to which Amos Oz also belongs. Her father Max A. Klausner (1848–1910) was a political editor at the Berlin stock exchange courier . He initiated the introduction of compulsory Jewish religious instruction in the state schools in Prussia and was a co-founder of the Jewish cultural magazine Ost und West . Her older sister Irma Klausner (married Cronheim) was one of the first six high school graduates at the Luisengymnasium Berlin and, together with her classmate Else von der Leyen, the first doctor who, thanks to a decision by the Prussian Ministerial Director Friedrich Althoff later called "Lex Irma", was exclusively in Germany could complete. Her younger sister Edith Klausner (married Speer) became Germany's first female labor judge in 1929.

Life

"Trude" Klausner was a student instructor and taught German, English and French at the Kleist Lyceum in Berlin. She was elected to the Prussian state parliament in 1924 as a member of the German Democratic Party . There she was the one in her parliamentary group that voted against the majority most often - 34 times. In 1928 she did not succeed in re-election, but was elected to the main board of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith , the largest non-Zionist organization of German Jews. In 1933 she was given early retirement due to the National Socialist Civil Service Act . In 1939 she died after a stroke. Older literature often still states that after 1939 she was "lost" in Berlin.

literature

  • Maier, Dieter G .; Nürnberger, Jürgen: The daughters of the Max A. Klausner family: "Everything people above average" , Centrum Judaicum, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95565-119-0
  • Klausner, Gertrud , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 195

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irma Klausner-Cronheim on geschichte.charite.de
  2. ↑ Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 195.
  3. ^ Review of The Daughters of the Max A. Klausner Family
personal data
SURNAME Klausner, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1939
Place of death Berlin