Bis »das Böse aus der Welt geschwunden ist…«. Die Sozialpolitikerin und erste jüdische Bundestagsabgeordnete Jeanette Wolff (1888–1976). Vortrag von Dr. Birgit Seemann

In the organizer's words:

Jeanette Wolff lost her husband and two of her daughters in the Shoah; she herself only just survived the death camps. Today's Federal Republic of Germany owes her a great deal: instead of resigning herself, she was involved in numerous offices for the young German post-war democracy,

fought anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism at an early stage and worked to rebuild the Jewish communities and the Jewish Women's Association.

She held numerous offices and was awarded the Grand Federal Cross of Merit, the Ernst Reuter Plaque and the Leo Baeck Prize, among others. The Berlin Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, which she co-founded, has awarded the Jeanette Wolff Medal since 2019.

The lecture by Dr. Birgit Seemann (historian and social scientist) will shed light on Jeanette Wolff's life and work and allow her to speak for herself from her notes and articles.

A joint event by the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus Foundation, the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Düsseldorf e.V., Düsseldorf Contributions "Respect and Courage" as part of the "100 Heads of Democracy" project of the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation.