Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner

Zu den bedeutenden jüdischen Persönlichkeiten der Stadt Mannheim gehörten die Volkswirtin und Vertreterin der Frauenbewegung Elisabeth Altmann Gottheimer (1874-1930).

Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (March 26, 1874 in Berlin, Germany – October 21, 1930 in Mannheim) was the first woman to become a university lecturer in Germany.

from Wikipedia

In 1904, she received a doctorate in Zurich, Switzerland. By 1908, she was a lecturer at the economic College in Mannheim, and by 1924 had a professorship in economics.

Academics

She wrote a number of books and articles on economic questions. From 1912 on she edited the feminist yearbook Jahrbuch der Frauenbewegung.[1] The University of Mannheim grants the annual award "Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner-Preis" for students' theses on gender research.[2]

Works

• page 48-49 of The Survey April-September 1922 by Survey Associates; Charity Organization Society of the City of New York. "The New Poor in Germany."

References

1. "Altmann-Gottheiner, Elisabeth". Deutsche-Biographie.de. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
2. "Elisabeth-Altmann-Gottheiner-Preis". University go Mannheim. Retrieved 2014-03-27.

Further reading

• Salomon, Alice: Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner zum Gedächtnis (3. Jg., Nr. 9, 1. Dezember 1930) Die Österreicherin : Zeitschrift für alle Interessen der Frau hrsg. vom Bund österreichischer Frauenvereine, Wien, 1928 - 1938 (Heft 2)
• Zahn-Harnack, Agnes: Altmann-Gottheiner, Elisabeth. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, S. 227

biography

From http://www.gartenstadt-genossenschaft.de/?site=mitgliederzeitung/au... (google translation into English below)

Women in the cooperative

When the cooperative was founded, there were indeed worldwide have long been a women's movement that fought for equality and women's voting rights, but it took until 1918 before the women in the German Reich received universal suffrage. In Switzerland, this should even take until 1971.

One of the first pioneers and leaders in the German women's movement was our founding and board member Dr. Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner. Born in 1874 in Berlin, she had studied in London, Berlin and Zurich. In Zurich she earned her doctorate and was next to Ricarda Huch, Rosa Luxembourg and Marienbaum the few doctoral her time. She married Professor Sally Altmann and his habilitation in 1908 at the Mannheim Business School (now University). She was one of the first female lecturers at a German university. Together with Dr. Marie Berneys, Julie Bassermann and Alice Bensheim, whose husband was also a founding and board member of our cooperative, she founded the Social School for Women in Mannheim.

Dr. Altmann-Gottheiner was groundbreaking in many international women's congresses and purposeful. Above all, they fought in the field of social welfare with all the energy of her powerful personality. But your interest was also the cultural currents in Mannheim and so it is not surprising that they also gave a presentation on the garden city idea and its impact on women in front of the Mannheimer women's organizations. On the board of the International Women's Union, she devoted herself particularly the workers question, fought for the rights of women in their professional lives to their equality and a better mother protection. 1924 she was awarded the designation of Associate Professor. That there is an "Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner Street" in Mannheim, may fill us with pride, because she was one of us.

In the inaugural meeting of the cooperative Dr. Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner was elected to the first board of the cooperative, the she belonged to 1922nd It must have been a very special woman. In 1930 she died after a serious illness in Mannheim.

The New Mannheimer Zeitung reported from 10/23/1930, held at the funeral of Dr. Berneys obituary:

"One of the rarest female personalities has passed away. (...) Who is countered this woman, was immediately taken prisoner by the main features of their lives - quiet intelligence and noble humanity ".

At the mourning rally was attended by numerous mourners also Mayor Dr. Hermann Heimerich, former Lord Mayor Dr. Theodor Kutzer, and Mayor Richard Böttger ....

• Residence: 1874 - Berlin, Brandenburg, Preußen, Germany
  • Updated from Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 by SmartCopy: Dec 6 2015, 18:53:16 UTC
• "Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NZCM-DB5 : accessed 8 December 2015), Marie Lucy Elisabeth Gottheiner, 05 May 1874; citing ; FHL microfilm 70,401.

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Marie Lucy Elisabeth Gottheimer

• Germany, Hesse Marriage Index, 1849-1931
• Relation: Bride
• Birth: Mar 26 1874 - Berlin, Germany
• Marriage: Nov 5 1906 - Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse, Germany
• Groom: Sally Scholaum Altmann
• Parents of bride: Albert Eduard Paul Gottheimer, Anna Elisabeth Therese Behn

Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (* 26. März 1874 in Berlin; † 21. Oktober 1930 in Mannheim) war eine der ersten deutschen Hochschullehrerinnen und als Frauenrechtlerin aktiv.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Altmann-Gottheiner

Elisabeth Gottheiner studierte in London und Berlin. Im Jahr 1904 folgte die Promotion in Zürich mit der Untersuchung Studien über die Wuppertaler Textil-Industrie und ihre Arbeiter in den letzten 20 Jahren.

Im Jahr 1908 war sie erste weibliche Lehrbeauftragte an der Handelshochschule Mannheim. Ab 1912 gab sie das Jahrbuch der Frauenbewegung heraus. 1921 veröffentlichte sie Die Berufsaussichten der deutschen Akademikerinnen (Halle/Saale). 1925 wurde ihr die Amtsbezeichnung ordentlicher Professor verliehen.

Elisabeth Gottheiner heiratete 1906 den Nationalökonomen Samuel Paul Altmann (1878–1933).

Elisabeth-Altmann-Gottheiner-Preis Die Universität Mannheim vergibt seit 1996 jährlich den Elisabeth-Altmann-Gottheiner-Preis, gestiftet von der Senatskommission zur Förderung der gleichberechtigten Entfaltung von Frauen in Studium, Forschung und Lehre. Der Zweck der Stiftung ist: Auszeichnung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten von Studenten aller Fachrichtungen (Diplom-, Magister-, Master-, Staatsexamensarbeiten) der Universität Mannheim auf dem Gebiet der Frauen- bzw. Geschlechterforschung.

Literatur

• Rosmarie Günther: Eine vorbildliche Netzwerkerin – Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930). In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 20/2010. Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89735-671-9.
• Alice Salomon: Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner zum Gedächtnis. In: Die Österreicherin - Zeitschrift für alle Interessen der Frau. herausgegeben vom Bund österreichischer Frauenvereine. Wien, 3. Jg. 1930 (Heft 9)
• Agnes von Zahn-Harnack: Altmann-Gottheiner, Elisabeth. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6, S. 227 (Digitalisat).
• Reichshandbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - Das Handbuch der Persönlichkeiten in Wort und Bild. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, Bd. I, S. 20, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Weblinks

• Literatur von und über Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
• http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz734.html