Lina Richter

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Lina Anna Richter , b. Oppenheim (born August 1, 1872, presumably in Berlin-Wannsee ; † August 17, 1960 in Falkenstein im Taunus), was a German educator and teacher .

Life

Lina Richter was the only daughter of the four children of the banker Benoit Oppenheim the Elder. Ä. (1842–1931) and his wife Lina Louise, geb. of Saucken-Tarputschen . She came from the Jewish Oppenheim family , initially based in Königsberg (Prussia) , later in Berlin , related to the Mendelssohns and Warsawers, whose representatives included the Agfa director Franz Oppenheim .

In 1897 she got engaged to the philosopher Raoul Richter . After the wedding, Lina Richter moved to Leipzig to live with her husband , who had been teaching history of philosophy and practical philosophy at the University of Leipzig since the winter semester of 1898/1899 . In 1904 he was appointed associate professor in the philosophy faculty. In 1910 a serious illness forced him to quit his job. He died in 1912 as a result of the disease.

After the death of her husband, Lina Richter moved back to Berlin-Wannsee. The widow published essays left behind by her husband; apart from raising her children, she also concentrated on work in the conservative German Association for Women's Suffrage, founded in 1911 . A lively friendship arose here with the poet and women's rights activist Ida Dehmel and contacts to various personalities of the Berlin artist circle. Sculptor Georg Kolbe portrayed them.

During the First World War , Lina Richter supported several social institutions, such as a hospital donated by the Oppenheim family and the women's committee of the Hamburg War Aid . In addition, she got involved with donations in kind and money to private individuals and the War Aid Greater Berlin.

In the mid-1920s, Lina Richter moved to Salem, not far from Lake Constance, to work as a teacher at the Salem Castle boarding school . Their children were among the very first students. The close connection to Kurt Hahn and the family's own Jewish roots made life increasingly difficult from the late 1920s. Letters from her daughter Eveline Schütte to her mother in Belgium reported as early as 1932 about the mistrust of the foreign press towards the future Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the anti-Semitic prejudices of her mother-in-law.

The time of National Socialism finally created unfavorable conditions for the Salem students on the job market. Kurt Hahn, who was Jewish, was arrested in March 1933 and had to emigrate to Great Britain in July of that year. In the same year, Lina Richter also lost her teaching license. Her family had run into financial difficulties as early as the 1920s for unproven reasons. In 1930, her father considered selling the Villa Oppenheim in Heringsdorf . This was then expropriated by the Nazis and used as the local headquarters of the NSDAP .

Lina Richter died on August 17, 1960 and was buried in Falkenstein Taunus .

family

Lina had five children with Raoul Richter:

  • Gustav Benoit Richter (born August 26, 1899; September 22, 1971)
  • Curt (Büdich) Richter (* December 24, 1900 - † 1988)
  • Eveline Richter (born November 20, 1904) ⚭ 1930 Herbert Schütte
  • Leo Richter (born August 16, 1906)
  • Roland Raoul Richter (born January 26, 1909, † 1995)


Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Draft for a group of fountains and for the Lina Richter medal  in the German Digital Library , accessed June 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Lina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Judge, Lina Louise; Oppenheim Lina Louise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Wannsee
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1960
Place of death Falkenstein