Kathe Manasse
Käthe Emilie Manasse , b. Loewy (born December 7, 1905 in Berlin ; † July 2, 1994 in Hamburg ), was a German judge .
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Käthe Manasse was the daughter of a Jewish merchant. She had three brothers who fought in the Prussian army during the First World War . In her native Berlin, she attended the municipal college and a modern girls' high school. After graduating from high school in 1924, she briefly studied economics, but soon switched to law. She completed her studies at universities in Berlin, Bonn and Freiburg in 1930 with a doctorate at the University of Bonn . In 1932 she passed the exam as an assessor . In the same year she received a position as a judge at the Schöneberg District Court , where women have only been allowed to work in this profession since 1922.
Because of her Jewish origins, the National Socialists released Manasse in 1933 based on the law to restore the civil service . She then worked as a lawyer for three months, then lost her license. In 1938 she fled to her siblings in Haifa . Here she headed the German immigrant society Histadrut Oleij Germania for several years .
In 1949 Käthe Manasse moved to Hamburg with the lawyer Fritz Manasse , whom she had known since her youth and who had married during their stay in Israel in 1938. Here she worked as a research assistant at the Reparation Office . In 1952 she received a position as a district judge at the Hamburg district court . In 1962 she was promoted to regional court director. She sat before the civil chamber ZK 25 there until retirement in 1973.
Manasse was involved in Hamburg's Jewish community there . In 1953 she joined the parish council and served as chairwoman from 1976 to 1989. She also took part in the work of the aid organization Magen David Adom . Here she took over the chairmanship of the Relief Society. Until the end of her life she was the Jewish co-chair of the Hamburg Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation .
Fonts
- The presumption. Bonn; Cologne: Röhrscheid 1931 (Bonn jurisprudential treatises 16), plus dissertation Bonn 1930
literature
- Rita Bake : Manasse, Käthe . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 204 .
- Günter Bertram: Käthe Manasse. In: Communications of the Hamburg Judges Association 2/2002 full text
Web links
- Collection Fritz and Käthe Manasse in the Jewish Museum Berlin with associated finding aid .
- Gabriela Fenyes: Manasse, Käthe on dasjuedischehamburg.de
Remarks
- ↑ according to Hamburg biography born on February 7, 1905
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manasse, Kathe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Manasse, Käthe Emilie; Loewy, Käthe (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd July 1994 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |