Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Prename: | Lydia |
Surname: | Gottschewski |
Profession: | Nazi official |
Birthday: | 07/08/1906 |
Place of birth: | Nickelswalde near Danzig (Gdansk) |
Date of death: | 1989 |
Married since: | 1935 |
Married to: | Karl Richard Ganzer |
Profession husband: | Historian |
Children: | four |
Education: | University studies (philology) in Munich, Danzig, Greifswald, and Kiel |
Career: | Teaches at a private school; 1932 section head, Working Group of National Socialist Women Students (ANSt); February–June 1933 leader in the League of German Girls (BDM); April–September 1933 Reich director of the National Socialist Women’s League (NS-Frauenschaft); fall 1933 until 1935 director of the training department of the National Socialist Women’s League in Munich, member of the National Socialist Welfare Organization press department, director of the National Socialist Women’s League cultural department |
Memberships: | Wandervogel youth movement; 1929 Nazi Party |
Biographical literature: | Kathrin Kompisch, *Täterinnen: Frauen im Nationalsozialismus* (Cologne: Böhlau, 2008), 51; Michael Buddrus, *Totale Erziehung für den totalen Krieg* (Frankfurt/Main: Saur, 2003), 1146 |
Major works: | *Männerbund und Frauenfrage* (Munich: J.F. Lehmann, 1934); *Das deutsche Frauenantlitz* (Munich: J.F. Lehmann, 1939) |