Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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14195 Berlin
E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Elisabeth Henriette |
Surname: | Lürssen |
Profession: | Teacher |
Birthday: | 09/18/1880 |
Place of birth: | Delmenhorst |
Date of death: | 04/22/1972 |
Place of death: | Bremen |
Education: | Teacher training; 1909 final high school examinations (*Abitur*), subsequently university studies (German, history, French) in Göttingen, Munich, and Leipzig; 1916 doctorate and state teaching examinations |
Career: | From 1899 teacher at the general secondary school and high school for girls, Bad Harzburg; 1919 promotion to senior teacher, later high school teacher (*Studienrätin*); 1939–49 principal of the girls’ Kippenbergschule in Bremen |
Memberships: | 1920–33 German People’s Party (DVP) deputy in the Bremen parliament; 1945 cofounds the Bremen Democratic People’s Party (BDV); 1947–53 BDV deputy in the Bremen parliament; 1949 cofounder, Bremen chapter of the German Federation of University Women (DAB), and DAB national council member |
Biographical literature: | Elisabeth Hannover-Drück, “Elisabeth Lürssen (1880–1972),” in *Bremer Frauen von A bis Z*, ed. Hannelore Cyrus (Bremen: Belladonna, 1991), 232–4 |
Major works: | *Ritterbürtige Geschlechter der Mark Meissen* (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1916); *Die politische Machtbildung der Frauen* (Mannheim: BDF, 1927) |