Nettie Adler

Henrietta "Nettie" Adler (born December 1, 1868 † April 15, 1950 ) was a British politician ( Liberal Party ; Progressive Party ) and social worker.

Life

Adler was the daughter of Herman Adler, who was temporarily chief rabbi of England. She was educated at private schools and then worked for the London School Board as a school manager for this subordinate schools in London's Ostend . In this position she made particular efforts to expand the educational opportunities for girls in this area. From 1899 to 1946, Adler was also the honorary secretary of the Committee on Wage Earning Children. In this position she made a name for herself in the first decade of the 20th century through her commitment against child labor . In a brochure published in 1900, she advocated raising the minimum age at school for young people from 14 to 15 years.

1910 Adler was elected as a candidate of the Progressive Party for the constituency of Hackney Central in the Council of London ( London County Council ). Along with Susan Lawrence, she was one of the first two women to become members of this body. In the elections of March 1913, March 1919, March 1922, her mandate was confirmed, so that she was a member of the London District Council from 1910 to 1925, fifteen years at a time. The focus of her work within the district council was on the participation in the Educational Committee, of which she had already been a member five years before her election to the district council, since 1905, when she was elected to this committee as a co-opted member. From 1922 to 1925, Adler also served as deputy chairman of the district council (deputy chairman [sic!]).

In the 1925 election she lost her seat, but was able to win it back in the 1928 election - now as a candidate for the Liberal Party. In the 1931 election, Adler finally lost its seat and did not run for election later. However, she was subsequently co-opted into the London County Council's Public Health Committee for a term of three years.

She was also a member of the Council of the Anglo-Jewish Committee (Anglo-Jewish Association).

Fonts

• Separate Courts of Justice for Children: Probation & Probation Officers. 1908.
• Child Employment and Juvenile Delinquency. Women in Industry, Gertrude Tuckwell, ed., London, 1908.
• Boy and Girl Education. 1909.
• London Women and the LCC. 1925.
• Jewish Life and Labor in East London. In: H. Llwellyn Smith (ed.): New Survey of London Life and Labor. 1934.

literature

• Geoffry Alderman: London Jewry and London Politics, 1889–1986.
• Encyclopaedia Judaica: Judaism Past and Present. Vol. 1, 1928, Col. 887 f.