Marie Nörenberg

Marie Nörenberg (born April 29, 1872 at Gut Proßnitz near Gustow , Rügen ; died 1962 ) was a German librarian .

Life

Nörenberg was the daughter of a landowner and grew up on Rügen, in Stettin and in Berlin . She published two novels under the pseudonym Marie Proßnitz .

After the death of her father in 1906 she started a simple job in the public library in Charlottenburg near Berlin. In 1910 she became a library assistant. After studying economics for a few semesters, she became the first research assistant in a library in 1920 (but not the first senior librarian, this was Bona Peiser in 1895 ). In 1926 she took over the city library of Berlin-Charlottenburg as full-time director; the following year she was appointed city library councilor.

Her services included the establishment of a youth library for unemployed youth; the establishment of a reading room for the blind, a children's reading room and a youth loan library.

She gained further notoriety in 1933 when she refused to judge her employees with regard to the National Socialist requirements and, in the course of her forced employment, to take the oath of service to Adolf Hitler . She preceded her release by applying for retirement, which she took up on October 1, 1933.

Remarks

1. ↑ Current name: Prosnitz

literature

• Dagmar Jank: The first librarians in leading positions. Biographical notes on Bennata Otten and Marie Nörenberg. In: Helga Lüdtke (Hrsg.): Passion and education. On women's work in libraries. Orlanda-Frauenverlag Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-922166-79-2 , pp. 151-171.
• Ursula Koehler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 262, ISBN 3-8012-0276-3 .