Paula Ollendorff

Paula Ollendorff (born May 18, 1860 in Kostenblut ; died October 15, 1938 in Jerusalem , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ) was a German educator and local politician .

Life

Paula Ollendorff was a daughter of the Jewish businessman Hermann Ollendorff. She attended school in Breslau and completed her training at Berta Lindner's seminar for teachers. She then worked as a teacher in Wroclaw, Budapest and London . As the first woman in Germany , she became a member of a city council in Breslau in 1918. Their political home was the German Democratic Party . A particular concern of her was youth and social welfare. As the elder of the Jewish community, Paula Ollendorff founded a home for illegitimate children and a home economics school. She was a co-founder of the local branch in Breslau of the Jewish Women's Association, for which she ran a kindergarten for many years. In addition, she gave the impetus to found the Flinsberg Jewish Children's Home and the Jewish Apprentice Home. She also helped to create the Jewish Welfare Office in Wroclaw. She had to emigrate to Palestine in 1937 .

literature

• Maciej Łagiewski : Jews from Breslau 1850–1944 . Translation by Stefan Kiedroń. Wrocław: Muzeum Historyczne, 1996, ISBN 978-8-390-52271-5 .
• Hermann Vogelstein: Paula Ollendorff in memory . In: Jewish community sheet for the synagogue community in Breslau, October 25, 1938
• Ollendorff, Paula , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 287
• Ollendorf, Paula , in: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 7. Chernivtsi, 1935, p. 356
• Peter Reinicke : Ollendorff, Paula , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 449