Hilde Ottenheimer

Hilde Ottenheimer (born December 11, 1896 in Ludwigsburg ; died October 22, 1942 in Riga ) was a German sociologist.

Life

Stumbling block. “This is where Hilde Ottenheimer learned”, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin-Mitte

Hilde Ottenheimer was the daughter of the grocer Josef. S. Ottenheimer and his wife Sara. The family was an active part of the Jewish community in Ludwigsburg, and the father was a long-time director of the Israelite charity.

After attending the girls' secondary school and the higher commercial school, Hilde Ottenheimer moved to Mannheim in 1916, after briefly working as an office assistant, to the recently founded social women's school . From 1919 to 1922 she was managing director of the Württemberg regional association for Israelite welfare efforts . She had to break off the social science studies that began in 1923 because of the inflationary period. Instead, she took up a job at the Central Welfare Office for Jews in Germany in Berlin, where she worked on periodicals such as Zedakah and the news service . She placed child care at the center of her dissertation. Despite the exclusionary conditions of the Nazi era, she managed to get her doctorate in 1934 under adverse circumstances.

Ottenheimer pleaded for a reform of Jewish welfare education. She was a member of the editorial team of the historical-topographical handbook on German-Jewish history Germania Judaica . She was responsible for the articles Pedagogy and Social Pedagogy , Social Work and Charitable Foundations for the collective work Jews in the German Cultural Sector , which was already printed in 1934 but was suppressed by the Gestapo before publication . In 1941, her probably last publication appeared in English, a sober analysis of the disappearance of the Jewish communities in Germany .

On October 19, 1942, Hilde Ottenheimer was deported to Riga and murdered there three days later.

Writings and contributions

• The Disappearance of Jewish Communities in Germany, 1900-1938. Jewish Social Studies Vol. 3, No. 2 (Apr., 1941), pp. 189-206.
• The history of educational care in Germany from 1870 to 1930. Düsseldorf: Nolte 1935.
• Social pedagogy in the penal system. Berlin: C. Heymann 1931.

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Eva Schöck-Quinteros : Between Zedakah and Science: Hilde Ottenheimer, 1896--1942. In: Jewish welfare in the mirror of biographies. (Ed .: Sabine Hering ). Frankfurt / M. 2006. (Writings of the Working Group on the History of Jewish Welfare in Germany; 2). Pp. 339-348.

Web links

• Hilde Ottenheimer (Humboldt University of Berlin | Stolpersteine ​​project)
• Hilde Ottenheimer (1896–1942)