Lili Frankenstein

Lili Frankenstein (born November 9, 1889 in Aachen ; died 1942 in the Izbica ghetto ) was a German classical archaeologist and high school teacher.

Life

Lili Frankenstein came from a Jewish family. Her parents were the businessman Julius Frankenstein (1852–1938) and his wife Hedwig geb. Graefenberg (1869–1941), the daughter of the Göttingen department store owner Nathan Graefenberg. Lili grew up with her two younger sisters Ida (1891–1952) and Louise (1896–1992) in Aachen. She first attended the Viktoriaschule in Aachen , then switched from the Obertertia to the girls' grammar school in Cologne and passed the school leaving examination at the Kaiser Wilhelm grammar school there on March 21 and 26, 1909. She then went to the University of Göttingen in the summer semester of 1909 to study classical philology , philosophy and German . For the winter semester 1910/11 she moved to the University of Bonn and for the winter semester 1911/12 to the University of Greifswald . From March 1914 she was preparing for the teaching examination, but after the outbreak of the First World War she interrupted her preparations and took a teaching position at the Viktoriaschule in Aachen (from September 10, 1914 to March 30, 1915). On January 21 and 22, 1916, she passed the teaching examinations in Greifswald in the subjects Latin, Greek, philosophical propaedeutics and German; an extension exam on August 3, 1916 earned her the right to teach German for all classes.

From Easter 1916 to Easter 1918 Lili Frankenstein completed the preparatory service for the higher teaching post, first of all the seminar year at the Royal Augusta School in Berlin-Steglitz . In addition, she taught at the Augusta-Viktoria-Schule in Berlin-Charlottenburg , where she started her probationary year at Easter 1917. She completed the second half of the probationary year from December 1917 at the Fürstin-Bismarck-Schule in Charlottenburg and was employed there on April 1, 1918 as an assistant senior teacher. After two years, she took a leave of absence from this position in order to deepen her studies at the University of Greifswald. She wrote a dissertation on Tarentine terracottas with Erich Pernice . On May 17, 1921 she was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate and on July 23, 1921 she passed an additional examination in archeology and art history .

From November 9, 1921 to August 1922, Lili Frankenstein taught as a teacher and educator at the Odenwald School in Ober-Hambach, Hesse . After that, she struggled to find employment. After changing positions (also outside the teaching profession), she worked as a study assessor at various schools in the Rhine Province from April 27, 1926: until April 8, 1927 at the municipal lyceum in Krefeld, from April 1927 at the municipal upper lyceum in Rheydt and from April 17, 1927 at the municipal lyceum in Krefeld April 1928 at the municipal Victoria School in Essen. On April 1, 1930, she was appointed to the teaching staff, but continued to work as an assessor (from May 1, 1930 at the municipal college in Duisburg). In October 1931 she was given a permanent position as a teacher in Düsseldorf, where she taught at the municipal Augusta Victoria School.

During the time of National Socialism , Lili Frankenstein experienced all levels of oppression. On September 17, 1933, she was retired under Section 3 of the Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service . Her father protested against this measure with a letter, but to no avail. In the following years Lili Frankenstein lived with her parents in Aachen; her father died in 1938. While her younger sisters emigrated to Sweden and Switzerland, Lili Frankenstein stayed in Aachen and looked after her mother. Her parents' house was expropriated in 1940. After her mother's death, Lili Frankenstein had to leave her apartment in September 1941. On April 2, 1942, she was taken to izbica ghetto in Poland deported , where she died shortly afterwards. She was declared dead by the Aachen District Court in 1948.

Stumbling stone with Lili Frankenstein's name

In front of Lili Frankenstein's house in Aachen (Triebelstrasse 2), a stumbling block has been remembering her since 2009 .

Apart from her dissertation, which only appeared in excerpts, Lili Frankenstein published numerous articles in Paulys Realenzyklopädie der classical antiquity (RE).

Fonts (selection)

• Tarentine terracottas. Studies on the history of art in Greater Greece . Greifswald 1921 (dissertation)

literature

• Friederike Bister: On the emancipation of women in Aachen. The beginnings of high school girls' education . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . Volume 100 (1995/1996), pp. 473-520.

Web links

• Literature by Lili Frankenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lili Frankenstein's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Family information: Gladys and David Blank's Genealogy , accessed December 12, 2014.
2. ↑ Short biography on the Aachen Memorial Book Project (accessed on January 6, 2015).
3. ↑ Peter Dudek: "We want to be warriors in the army of light". Reform educational rural education homes in Hochwaldhausen in Hesse 1912–1927 . Bad Heilbrunn 2013, p. 185.
4. ↑ Julian Wyszynski: The “cleansing” of the college in 1933 ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Chronicle of the Goethe-Gymnasium Düsseldorf (accessed on January 6, 2015)
5. ↑ Georg Dünnwald, Peter Langohr: Only a battered photo remained as a memory for the family . Aachener Nachrichten, June 15, 2009 (accessed January 6, 2015).