Lucie Crain

Lucie Crain was a German entrepreneur, women's rights activist during the imperial era and founder of the Crain Institute in Berlin .

Life and Crain Institutions

Almost penniless and without her own systematic training, Lucie Crain succeeded in pursuing her passion for a better education for girls and women by founding the Crain Institute . These included a high school for girls, boys' preschool, Selekta, teacher training college and boarding school. The Crainschen institutions were during the time of the Empire in Germany one of the leading educational institution for girls and were among the most prestigious Higher daughters schools .

The women's rights activist and education politician Helene Lange was one of the teachers at the Crain Institute . The students included the writer Marie von Bunsen , the writer Helene Herrmann and Adelheid Mommsen , the daughter of Theodor Mommsen .

As a sober entrepreneur, it was clear to Lucie Crain that the framework conditions had to be right so that the company could achieve and then maintain a good reputation. In this way, she ensured that the teachers received a good salary and, as the client, ensured that the institution building had a representative appearance. For the "Tanneck" house in Charlottenburg-Westend , Kaiserdamm 38, which she ran as a boarding school, she chose the architect Albrecht Becker , who built it in 1889 from 1891.

Individual evidence

↑ Helene Lange: Memoirs. Berlin: Herbig, 1925, chap. 11, URL: https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/langeh/lebenser/chap011.html
↑ Angelika Schaser: Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer. A political community. Cologne: Böhlau, 2010, p. 55.
^ Gudrun Wedel: Lessons between work and profession. Insights into the life of women autobiographers in the 19th century. Köln et al. 2000, 243.
↑ together with the architect Schlüter; Destroyed in World War II, Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin eV (Ed.): Schools. (= Berlin and its buildings , part V, volume C.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-433-02205-4 , p. 370.

personal data
SURNAME	Crain, Lucie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur, women's rights activist and founder of the Crain Institute
DATE OF BIRTH	19th century
DATE OF DEATH	19th century or 20th century

[1] Helene Lange: Memoirs. Berlin: Herbig, 1925, chap. 11, URL: https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/langeh/lebenser/chap011.html

[2] Angelika Schaser: Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer. A political community. Cologne: Böhlau, 2010, p. 55.

[3] Gudrun Wedel: Lessons between work and profession. Insights into the life of women autobiographers in the 19th century. Köln et al. 2000, 243.

[4] together with the architect Schlüter; Destroyed in World War II, Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin eV (Ed.): Schools. (= Berlin and its buildings , part V, volume C.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-433-02205-4 , p. 370.