Ursula Randt

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Ursula Randt , née Klebe, (born May 25, 1929 in Hamburg ; † May 20, 2007 there ) was a German speech therapist and author .

Life

Ursula Randt was a daughter of the Jewish doctor Egon Klebe and his non-Jewish wife Johanna. From 1935 to 1939 she attended an elementary school on Vossberg, from 1940 the Heilwig high school for girls. Randt, whose father had to emigrate to the USA without his family in 1939, was considered a “Jewish hybrid” during the Nazi era . For this reason, she was banned from school in 1944.

Randt passed the Abitur in 1949 at the Heilwig-Oberschule and took up a teaching degree at the University of Hamburg in 1950 . After the first state examination for elementary teachers in 1953, she completed her studies in 1957 with the second state examination. She completed additional training for teaching at special schools, which she completed in 1971 and focused on the field of speech therapy. From 1953 to 1960 Randt taught at the Vossberg elementary school. She then took a break due to the birth of her sons and resumed teaching in 1968.

From 1971 she worked at the language therapy school at Karolinenstrasse 35. Until 1942 the building was the seat of the girls' school of the German-Israelite community. In 1977 a former student reported on the history of Jewish schools, which aroused Ursula Randt's interest in the subject. In 1985, the Association for Hamburg History published Randt's book Carolinenstrasse 35. History of the Girls' School of the German-Israelite Congregation in Hamburg , which received a lot of public attention. All former Jewish residents of Hamburg living at home and abroad received a copy of this document from the Hamburg Senate . Another monograph by Randt from 2005 with the title The Talmud Tora School in Hamburg 1805 to 1942 dealt with the history of the Talmud Tora School .

In addition to research on Jewish school history, Randt was interested in the fate of people of Jewish faith during the National Socialist era. In doing so, she made a decisive contribution to the historical processing and remembrance work in Hamburg. Since she had worldwide contacts with former Hamburg residents and collected important historical materials, she was consulted by many researchers. She developed into a confidante for people who had been expelled from the Hanseatic city .

Ursula Randt has written numerous publications and articles for anthologies and gave lectures on people and their fates. In addition, she was involved in exhibitions, such as the exhibition "Four Hundred Years of Jews in Hamburg" shown in the Museum of Hamburg History in 1990 . Ursula Randt also played a decisive role in the creation and design of a memorial and educational center in the building of the Israelitische Töchterschule , which since May 1989 has housed a permanent exhibition entitled “Formerly at home in Hamburg - Jewish school life on the Grindel”.

Ursula Randt was buried in the Groß Flottbek cemetery in the Hamburg district of Bahrenfeld , grave location: LQ row 1, No. 13.

Appreciations

In April 1989 the Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg awarded Ursula Randt an honorary doctorate. Shortly before her death, the Association for Hamburg History awarded her the Lappenberg Medal as a mark of appreciation for her life's work.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location and illustration of tombstones at garten-der-frauen.de
personal data
SURNAME Randt, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German speech therapist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2007
Place of death Hamburg