Emmy Beckmann

Prename: Emmy
Surname: Beckmann
Profession: Teacher and school's superintendent
Birthday: 04/12/1880
Place of birth: Wandsbek
Date of death: 12/24/1967
Place of death: Hamburg
Education: 1906–10 university studies in Paris, Heidelberg, and Göttingen, examination for women high school teachers
Career: From 1911 state-appointed teacher in Hamburg; 1926 principal of the high school Helene-Lange-Oberrealschule; 1927 superintendent for girl’s secondary education, Hamburg; 1933 dismissed from all posts; 1945–49 reappointed as superintendent; 1957 awarded the title of professor by the Hamburg city government
Memberships: 1915 founding member of the Municipal Federation of Hamburg Women’s Associations (Stadtbund hamburgischer Frauenvereine); from 1914 member, 1921–33 president, General Federation of German Women Teachers (ADLV); 1921–33 German Democratic Party (DDP) deputy in the Hamburg city parliament; 1926–33 German Federation of University Women (DAB); 1946 founding member of the Hamburg Council of Women (Hamburger Frauenring); 1948 founding member of the Hamburg Association of University Women (Hamburger Akademikerinnenverein); 1949–53 DAB president; 1949–57 Free Democratic Party (FDP) deputy in the Hamburg city parliament
Biographical literature: Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus, *Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie*, vol. 1 (Munich: Saur, 1995), 479; Johanna Lürssen, “Emmy Beckmann im Deutschen Akademikerinnenbund. Emmy Beckmann zum 75. Geburtstag,” *Mädchenbildung und Frauenschaffen* 5 (1955), no. 4: 156–9; [Frauenbiographien Hamburg, Emmy Beckmann](http://www.hamburg.de/clp/frauenbiografien-suche/clp1/hamburgde/onepage.php?BIOID=3164&cM=13)
Major works: *Helene Lange. Was ich hier geliebt: Briefe* (Tübingen: Wunderlich, 1957)