Dr. Margarete Wiener

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)