Cora Berliner

Cora Berliner ( born January 23, 1890 in Hannover, † 1942 probably in Maly Trostinez ) was a German economic and social scientist and a victim of the Holocaust. She was a pioneer of social work, then called welfare.

Life

Cora Berliner was the fifth and youngest child of Jewish trade school director Manfred Berliner and his wife Hanna, born in Dessau.

Cora Berliner was common at that time for girls of her class education. After high school graduation externally at a boys' grammar school, she studied mathematics and Political and Social Sciences in Berlin and Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1916 with honors. The dissertation topic was "The organization of Jewish youth in Germany. A contribution to the systematics of youth care and youth movement." Until 1919 she worked as an employee in the city administration of Berlin- Schöneberg, next to 1910-1924 at the Association of Jewish youth clubs as Head of the Department, as managing director and later as CEO in Heidelberg. There she lectured on "The Social official in the city administration ," 1918. 1919 joined Cora Berliner as an employee in the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the government service, in 1923 she was councilor and one of the leaders in the Economics office.

In 1927 she went to London as a consultant in the Economic Section of the German Embassy. In 1930 she became a professor of economics at Vocational Teacher Institute in Berlin.

After the transfer of power to the Nazis, she was dismissed in 1933 from the civil service. She worked in the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, including as head of the emigration department, in -service teacher training and as vice chair of the Jewish Women's Federation. They campaigned for the establishment of a seminary for the training of kindergarten teachers / Hortnerinnen and nannies, promoted the Jewish population welfare and the professional interests of carers ( uva Alice Salomon ). On June 26, 1942 Cora Berliner was deported with the transport II/10 along with other employees of the National Association to Minsk. From there is little known about their fate. There is evidence that Cora Berliner and all were murdered with her deported in Belarusian Maly Trostinez near Minsk.

In the Jewish cemetery in Hanover a memorial stone at Cora Berliner.

Honors

In Berlin -Mitte a road on Holocaust Memorial is named after Cora Berliner.

In Hanover Center of pedestrian and bicycle between the Opera House and The Holocaust Memorial was named after her.

On October 29, 2013 were laid before your former home in Berlin- Wilmersdorf, Emser Straße 37, a stumbling block for them.

Writings

• Kora Berlin: The organization of Jewish youth in Germany: A contribution to the systematics of youth care and youth movement. Phil Diss Heidelberg. Berlin: Verl d d Association Jewish youth clubs in Germany, 1916 67 p online version.
• Cora Berliner: The Women's emigration. In: Jewish News Journal, 1939, No. 56 (July 14, 1939), p.2 online version