Henry B. Ollendorff

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Henry B. Ollendorff (also: Ollendorf ; born March 14, 1907 in Esslingen ; died February 10, 1979 in Cleveland , Ohio ) was a German-born American lawyer and social worker .

Life

Born in Esslingen as the son of a Jewish ophthalmologist who converted to Christianity, he grew up in Darmstadt , studied law in Berlin and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1929 .

He was severely disabled by National Socialist legislation, was imprisoned for 13 months and emigrated to the USA in 1938 . His wife followed him in 1939. His stepmother was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp .

In Cleveland he studied social work and then worked for underprivileged children in his new home.

He was sent to Germany by the US government in 1954 to teach courses for German youth leaders and social workers as part of the re-education program . The very successful activity then led to an - meanwhile worldwide - exchange of experts from the social field and to the establishment of the Council of International Fellowship - CIF .

A square in Darmstadt has been named after him since 2005.

literature

  • Gisela Senssfelder: Ollendorf, Henry , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 447
  • Ollendorf, Henry B. , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 287

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://schmidt-grillmeier.de/menu_ger.html
  2. ↑ Street naming ( memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on CIF-germany.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cif-germany.de
personal data
SURNAME Ollendorff, Henry B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ollendorf, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and social worker
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1979
Place of death Cleveland , Ohio, USA