Henny Rosenthal

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(Henriette) Henny Rosenthal (born November 29, 1884 ; died 1944 ) was one of the first women to professionally grow fruit and vegetables in Germany. She is the mother of the landscape architect and psychologist Karl Linn , who promoted the idea of community gardens in the USA .

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Henny Rosenthal was born as the youngest of four children and the only daughter of a Berlin Jewish merchant family. Her father, Carl Rosenthal, was a banker and grain merchant, her mother Paula Wiesenburg came from Breslau . She trained as a clerk, was employed by the Berlin Stock Exchange and was the first woman to be granted power of attorney for the company.

As a successful woman she had contacts with Gustav Landauer and his wife Hedwig Lachmann , Heinrich and Lily Braun , the latter encouraging Henny Rosenthal to stand up for women's rights. She was also interested in the reform pedagogue Gustav Wynecken and his thoughts on free schools .

In 1911, Henny Rosenthal attended the fruit and horticultural school founded by Elvira Castner for educated girls and women in Mariendorf near Berlin, after which she did a year-long internship in an orphanage in Nieuwpoort (Belgium).

In 1913 she bought 20 acres of land reform in the village of Dessow (in the then Ruppin district ) with the help of the Rentengut cooperative "Freie Scholle" from Frankfurt (Oder ) and built up the successful Immenhof fruit and vegetable nursery. There were training places for girls and garden therapy for the disabled. Customers for the products of the nursery were Jewish institutions in Berlin, including Kempinski and the KaDeWe .

In 1922, Henny Rosenthal married the widower Josef (Jossel) Lin (born January 28, 1877), the chief librarian of the Jewish community in Berlin. Lin brought three children into the marriage: Bella, Theo, and Henry.

Their son Karl was born in 1923 .

In 1933, trade in and with Jews in Germany was banned.Henny Rosenthal had to sell her nursery for a fraction of its value and in 1934 emigrated with the children Karl and Bella via Switzerland and Italy to Palestine, where her husband fled via Paris in 1933 was. The reunited Lin family established a farm between Haifa and Akkon .

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  • Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California (Ed.): Karl Linn - Landscape Architect in Service of Peace, Social Justice, Commons, and Community . An Interview Conducted by Lisa Rubens, Ph.D. in 2003 and 2004. Berkeley, California, USA (English, berkeley.edu [accessed May 10, 2018]).
  • Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen: Community Gardens - An "anarchist of gardening: Karl Linn" . In: Contraste - monthly newspaper for self-organization . No. 250 /251 (Summer 2005), p 6 ( coforum.de [accessed on May 10, 2018]).
  • Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen: commons and cooperatives. April 24, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
  • Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen: From orchard to community gardening - Karl Linn completed his mother Henny Rosenthal's visions . In: The raven Ralf . June / July 2005, p. 4 .
  • Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen: Gardens - a question of justice . Henny Rosenthal married Lin (1885-1944) and Karl Linn (1923-2005). In: City and Green . October 2005, p. 32-35 .
  • Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen: The stolen utopia - Henny Rosenthal's Immenhof . In: Hubertus Fischer, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Ed.): Gardens and parks in the life of the Jewish population after 1933 . Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89975-144-4 , p. 287-308 .
  • Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen: Gardens create peace . In: taz - the daily newspaper . No. 7705 , July 5, 2005, p. 23 ( taz.de [accessed on May 10, 2018]).
  • Christian Schönberg: High bloom on the Immenhof . January 2, 2015 ( moz.de [accessed May 9, 2018]).
  • Linn, Karl Collection - Biographical Note. OAC - Online Archive of California, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  • Article about Karl Linn (1923–2005) in the English language Wikipedia

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish Press at International Press Exhibition . (Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service), Berlin, July 13. In: Jewish Daily Bulletin Co., Inc. (Ed.): Jewish Daily Bulletin . tape IV , no. 824 . Long Island City, NY, USA July 28, 1927 (English, jta.org [accessed May 12, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Henny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenthal, Henriette; Lin, Henny (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gardener
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1884
DATE OF DEATH 1944