Marie Wreschner

Marie Wreschner (born September 20, 1887 in Hohensalza ; † November 17, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German physicist who committed suicide in 1941 because of the imminent deportation .

biography

Marie Wreschner was the daughter of the Jewish banker Jakob Wreschner and his wife Paula geb. Borinski. She attended the Dorotheen Lyceum in Berlin until 1904 and then the Strinz grammar school courses for women initiated by Helene Lange in order to obtain the Abitur at the Kaiser Wilhelm Realgymnasium .

Marie Wreschner then studied physics and chemistry at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin as well as in Munich , Freiburg and Heidelberg . Just one year after completing her diploma in Berlin , she completed her doctorate with Arthur Wehnelt and became an assistant to Leopold Spiegel at the Royal Agricultural University in Berlin . From 1920 to 1933 she had a position as a research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) for physical chemistry and electrochemistry in the department of the chemist Herbert Freundlich .

When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Marie Wreschner was dismissed under the law to restore the civil service . After that she lived partly on hereditary fortune, but was also able to work as a private scientist for Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950), among others . She researched the effects of radioactive rays on organisms and contributed to the development of examination methods and measuring instruments. In November 1938 her publications were banned in Germany. Together with her mother, Marie had already tried to emigrate to Great Britain around 1937 , but they did not succeed. Instead, Marie Wreschner had to do forced labor . In 1941 she escaped deportation by suicide .

A street in the newly developed industrial park (CleanTechPark) in the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf was named after Marie Wreschner in 2015 .

Publications

About rotation reversal and anomalous rotation dispersion . Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate approved by the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin. From the Technolog. Institute of the University of Berlin. , Verlag Leipzig, printing Metzger & Wittig, 1918. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate.

literature

Walter Greulich (Ed.): Lexicon of Physics. Vol. 5 (p. 454 ff). Heidelberg, Spektrum-Verlag, year 2000.
Thomas Steinhauser, Jeremiah James, Dieter Hoffmann, Bretislav Friedrich: A hundred years at the interface of chemistry and physics: The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society between 1911 and 2011 . Walter de Gruyter, October 27, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023915-7 , pp. 74–.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c BVV decision of the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf of February 25, 2015; Press release on the personal biographies of the new street names in the Clean-Tech Business Park.
↑ Reinhard Rürup: Fates and Careers. Memorial book for the researchers expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society by the National Socialists , on books.google.de; Pp. 275/276. Wallstein-Verlag, 2008.

personal data
SURNAME	Wreschner, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 20, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hohensalza
DATE OF DEATH	November 17, 1941
Place of death	Berlin

[Straße-1] BVV decision of the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf of February 25, 2015; Press release on the personal biographies of the new street names in the Clean-Tech Business Park.

[2] Reinhard Rürup: Fates and Careers. Memorial book for the researchers expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society by the National Socialists , on books.google.de; Pp. 275/276. Wallstein-Verlag, 2008.