Toni Stolper

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Toni Stolper in 1924

Toni Stolper (born as Antonie Kassowitz November 22, 1890 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died October 18, 1988 in Alexandria, Virginia ) was an Austro-German economist and journalist who had to emigrate to the USA in 1933.

Life

Stolperstein , Englerallee 25, in Berlin-Dahlem

Stolper was the daughter of the publicist Emilie Kassowitz and the pediatrician Max Kassowitz .

She studied law in Vienna and economics in Berlin. She received her doctorate in 1917. In 1921 she married Gustav Stolper , the historian Joan Campbell is their daughter. From 1921 to 1925 she wrote articles for the magazine Der Österreichische Volkswirt published by the latter . In 1925 the couple moved to Berlin, where Gustav Stolper founded the magazine Der Deutsche Volkswirt . Toni Stolper wrote regularly, including a. on questions of the English and Russian economies. In 1926 she took on German citizenship.

Toni Stolper was close friends with Theodor Heuss and Elly Heuss-Knapp . In 1933 the family emigrated to the USA. Toni Stolper was still active in journalism there and was involved in social policy. She co-founded the self-help organization Selfhelp and the American Council for Emigrés in the Professions, and played a leading role in helping emigrants integrate. She maintained regular correspondence with German and American scientists and politicians. In 1960 she published her husband's biography, A Life in Focal Points of Our Time. In 1981 her German translation of The German Werkbund was published. The politics of reform in the applied arts , a study by her daughter Joan Campbell on the German Werkbund .

She has lived in Canada since 1975 .

On November 14, 2015, on the initiative of the Embassy of Hungary in the Federal Republic of Germany, two stumbling blocks in memory of Gustav and Toni Stolper were laid in front of the couple's former villa in Berlin.

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, pp. 737f.

Web links

Commons : Toni Stolper  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b authority data entry (GND 124248594 ) of the German National Library . Query date: January 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ See the evaluation of the correspondence by Joachim Radkau : Theodor Heuss , Munich 2013.
  3. ↑ 15 new stumbling blocks at nine locations , Berliner Woche 2015
personal data
SURNAME Stumble, Toni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kassowitz, Antonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German economist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1988
Place of death Alexandria (Virginia)