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Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Margarete |
Surname: | Wiener |
Birthday: | 1895 |
Date of death: | 1945 |
Place of death: | Bergen-Belsen |
Married to: | Alfred Wiener (1885-1964) |
Profession husband: | 1919-1933 officer of the National Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith (Zentralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens); 1933 founder of the Jewish Central Information Office in Amsterdam; 1945 founder and long-serving director of the Wiener Library in London |
Children: | 3 |
Education: | University studies (economics) |
Career: | 1933 flees to Amsterdam; 1942 deported to the concentration camps Westerborg and Bergen-Belsen; 1945 dies shortly after Bergen-Belsen’s liberation by the US Army |
Memberships: | Until 1933 board member, probably treasurer, Union of Women Economists (VdN) |
Biographical literature: | Ben Barkow, *Alfred Wiener and the Making of the Holocaust Library* (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1997) |
Major works: | *Vom nationalsozialistischen Wirtschaftsprogramm: Eine kritische Betrachtung* (Berlin: Philo, 1931) |
Links: | [Dr. Alfred Wiener, The Wiener Library](http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/wls/themes/wieneralfred.aspx) |