Lucie Jacobi

Lucie Jacobi (born March 3, 1886 in Worms , † March 12, 1968 in Gießen ) was a German teacher.

Career

Jacobi came as the fourth of five daughters of the married couple Adolf († 1931) and Johanna Jacobi, geb. Klein, (1855–1942) born in Worms. Her father was a spirits and vinegar manufacturer, from 1908 he worked as a realtor and insurance agent. She studied German at the University of Giessen and did her doctorate in 1920 under Otto Behaghel with a thesis on The Dramatic Treatment of the Arminius Material from the Wars of Liberation to 1888 . Afterwards she taught as a teacher at the secondary girls' school in Offenbach. In addition to Elisabeth Kredel and Irene Schopbach, she was one of the first three Hessian high school teachers. After the National Socialists came to power, she was dismissed from school on April 1, 1933 because of her Jewish descent. In 1938 she emigrated to England. Her mother and younger sister were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp .

In 1947 she returned to Giessen and took over the management of the Giessen secondary school for girls. She suggested that the school be renamed the Ricarda Huch School in November 1948 . In 1952 she was retired.

Honors

• 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Association of the former students of the Ricarda Huch School in Gießen (ed.): In memoriam Dr. Lucie Jacobi, senior teacher at the Ricarda Huch School in Gießen 1947–1952 - Bad Nauheim: Wagner, 1984 (= then and now 2 )

Web links

• Portrait at the Ricarda Huch School in Giessen
• Jacobi family at Die Wormser Juden 1933–1945