Mary Saran

Maria Martha (Mary) Saran (born July 13, 1897 in Cranz , Samland ; died February 16, 1976 in London ), temporarily married to Hodann , was a German-British publicist who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Jensen.

Life

Maria Saran was the seventh of ten children in a family of architects. Her father was the architect Richard Saran . She was the niece of the diplomat Johannes Kriege , a cousin of the lawyer Walter Kriege and a relative of the early socialist Hermann Kriege . After five years in Königsberg / East Prussia and five years in Wiesbaden , the family settled in Berlin in 1907 . On December 24, 1919 , Maria Saran married the doctor Max Hodann ; on July 13, 1926 , the marriage was divorced again. Saran began studying medicine in 1918, which she broke off to join the International Youth Association (IJB) with Max Hodann . The socially critical philosopher Leonard Nelson founded the IJB in 1918 . At the same time, Maria Saran wanted to work full-time in adult education and social work . In 1918 she became a member of the USPD , later joined the SPD and continued to be involved in Nelson's IJB, which was transformed into the International Socialist Combat League (ISK) in 1926 . She was one of the signatories of the urgent appeal of the ISK of June 1932 for tactical cooperation between the SPD and KPD in the Reichstag election of July 1932 .

In 1933 she emigrated to Great Britain via France and Denmark, where she worked in the Socialist Vanguard Group (SVG), the British section of the ISK. In 1933 Mary Saran also helped Minna Specht to emigrate to Denmark with the students of the Walkemühle rural education home .

From 1941 Mary Saran was editor of the "Socialist Commentary". In 1945 she stayed in Great Britain and, as Willi Eichler's successor, published “Europe speaks” until 1947. She then worked as a freelance journalist, worked for UNESCO and, from 1954, women secretary of the Socialist International .

Services

As part of her work in adult education and as a welfare worker, Maria Hodann took over the Reich leadership of the Young Socialists in 1925. In England she was editor of the magazine Socialist Commentary and Socialist International , while she worked for the Labor Party in politics and adult education and from 1974 at a London school.

Works

• 1941 European Revolution: How to Win the Peace. London
• 1942 The Future Europe. Peace or Power Politics? London
• 1945 with Willi Eichler , Wilhelm Heidorn (d. I. Werner Hansen ) and Minna Specht : Re-Making Germany. Foreword: James Griffiths . International Publishing Company, SVG, London
• 1975 For Community Service. The Mount Carmel Experiment. Blackwell Publishers, ISBN 0631156305
• 1976 Never give up. Memoirs. Preface: W. Arthur Lewis . Oswald Wolff Ltd., London
  • Never give up. Memories . Translation by Susanne Miller . Private print, Bonn 1979

literature

• Saran, Mary , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 635

Web links

• Literature by and about Mary Saran in the catalog of the German National Library
• short biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mary Saran and her daughter assumed British citizenship during their exile, which they retained until her death. See Mary Saran, Never give up. Memoirs. Oswald Wolff Ltd., London 1976, pp. 87, 97.
2. ^ Mary Saran, Never give up. Memoirs. Oswald Wolff Ltd., London 1976, p. 87 (p. 121 in the German translation).
3. ↑ Cf. Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933, Vol. 1 (1980), p. 565.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Kulenkampff'sche Familienstiftung (ed.), Family tables of the Kulenkampff family, Bremen: Verlag BC Heye & Co 1959, line John Daniel Meier, JDM, pp. 47-50.
5. ^ Mary Saran, Never give up. Memoirs , London 1976, p. 28 (p. 41 in the German translation).
6. ^ Mary Saran, Never give up. Memoirs , London 1976, p. 58 (p. 84 in the German translation).
7. ↑ A description of Mary Saran's joint work with Minna Specht in Denmark is contained in the book by Birgit S. Nielsen, Education for Self- Confidence . A socialist school experiment in exile in Denmark 1933-1938. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag 1985, pp. 45-52, 166f.
8. ↑ Cf. Mary Saran, pause before a new beginning , in: Hellmut Becker , Willi Eichler and Gustav Heckmann (eds.): Education and politics. Minna Specht on her 80th birthday. Frankfurt 1960, pp. 327-329.
9. ↑ In addition to the descriptions in Mary Saran's autobiography, there is also a short section about this time in: Susanne Miller , "So I would live again". Memories, recorded by Antje Dertinger, Bonn: Dietz 2005, pp. 71–87, 97, cf. P. 44f.