Wanda Lanzer

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Wanda Lanzer (born May 25, 1896 in Vienna as Wanda Janina Landau ; † November 17, 1980 ibid) was an Austrian archivist , librarian and adult educator .

Life

Lanzer grew up in a political environment; her parents' apartment was an important meeting place for Polish emigrants in Vienna. She attended elementary school and, for a short time, a girls' college in Vienna until she moved to Lviv with her father and brothers in 1911 . In this city she also passed her high school diploma . She then taught German in a girls' high school and studied at the University of Krakow .

After her return to Vienna in 1922, she did her doctorate in 1924 under Carl Grünberg at the University of Vienna on "Marxist Crisis Theories".

Lanzer joined the career advice office of the City of Vienna as a representative of the Vienna Chamber of Labor and then became a municipal civil servant. From 1927 she worked for the social science study library of the Chamber of Labor, from which she was dismissed in 1934 for political reasons.

School establishment

During a series of lectures she held on the occasion of the Geneva Protocols , Lanzer noticed the considerable educational gaps in their young workers' audience. She founded preparatory courses for apprentices to obtain the Matura. In 1925 the "Middle School Course for Socialist Workers" was founded, of which she was until 1934. After the “depoliticization” in 1934 and the closure in 1938, today's evening high school in Vienna was re-established after the Second World War and taken over by the federal government in 1965.

Persecution, escape to Sweden and late return

After the “Anschluss” , Lanzer's apartment was searched, her husband disappeared under unexplained circumstances and was pronounced dead after the war. With the help of Swedish Social Democrats (including Rickard Sandler ), Lanzer and her daughters were able to flee to Sweden in spring 1939, where they were in close contact with other Austrian emigrants.

In Sweden she worked, among other things, for the Stockholm City Hall, after 1945 as a supervisor and interpreter for rescued concentration camp prisoners. In 1949 she became an employee of the Stockholm Archives of the Labor Movement ( Arbetarrörelsens arkiv ), where she stayed until she retired in 1964. During this time she worked on the estate of Hjalmar Branting, among other things .

Lanzer did not return to Vienna until 1964, and through the agency of a former secondary school student she was entrusted with the processing of Victor Adler's estate at the social archive of the Vienna Chamber of Labor . She was also co-editor of the complete edition of the works of Otto Bauer (her mother's second husband).

Lancer urn was transferred to Stockholm after her death and buried in Skogskyrkogården .

The Wanda Lanzer School in Floridsdorf , the Wanda Lanzer Park on the Wieden and the Wanda Lanzer Hof in Hietzing are named after her.

family

Lanzer was the first daughter of the lawyer Max Landau (actually Moses Nachmann Landau , 1870–1927) and his wife Helene , née. Gumplowicz. After the divorce in 1918, her mother married the politician Otto Bauer.

She had two brothers, the Polish historian and economist Zbigniew Władysław Landau (1931-2018) was her nephew.

In 1925 she married the lawyer Felix Lanzer, whom she had met during a discussion group around Max Adler . They had two daughters together.

Web links

literature

  • Barbara Kintaert and Irene Nawrocka: Lanzer, (Janina) Wanda. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815 - online edition. November 27, 2017, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  • Barbara Kintaert and Marina Laux: How a woman invented evening school and was forgotten: Wanda Lanzer in Red Vienna. In: Work & Economy Blog. March 30, 2017, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  • Helena Lanzer-Sillén: Dr. Wanda Lanzer - the founder of the evening high school . In: Annual report of the Bundesgymnasium, Bundesrealgymnasium and Wirtschaftskundlichen Bundesrealgymnasium for working people 2004/2005 . S. 23-27 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth book of the Israelite community in Vienna, Volume S, fol. 118, No. 1174.
  2. ↑ Barbara Kintaert and Marina Laux: How a woman invented evening school and was forgotten: Wanda Lanzer in Red Vienna. In: Work & Economy Blog. March 30, 2017, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Helena Lanzer-Sillén: Dr. Wanda Lanzer - the founder of the evening high school . In: Annual report of the Bundesgymnasium, Bundesrealgymnasium and Wirtschaftskundlichen Bundesrealgymnasium for working people 2004/2005 . S. 27 .
  4. ↑ Lanzer, Wanda. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Helena Lanzer-Sillén: Dr. Wanda Lanzer - the founder of the evening high school . In: Annual report of the Bundesgymnasium, Bundesrealgymnasium and Wirtschaftskundlichen Bundesrealgymnasium for working people 2004/2005 . S. 23 .
  6. ↑ Helena Lanzer-Sillén: Dr. Wanda Lanzer - the founder of the evening high school . In: Annual report of the Bundesgymnasium, Bundesrealgymnasium and Wirtschaftskundlichen Bundesrealgymnasium for working people 2004/2005 . S. 24 .
personal data
SURNAME Lanzer, Wanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landau, Wanda Janina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian archivist, librarian and adult educator
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1980
Place of death Vienna