Margarete Turnowsky Pinner

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Margarete Turnowsky-Pinner (also Grete, ; * 27). February 1894 in Kosten, Poznań province; † January 1982 in Tel Aviv was a German-Israeli social worker and social scientist.

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Margarete Pinner came from a Jewish academic family. The father Sigismund Pinner was a lawyer and the mother, Elisabeth, b. Bernstein, teacher. The couple had three children: Walter, Ernst and Margarete. The family had moved from Poznań to Berlin before the First World War. Margarete Pinner attended a teacher seminar in Berlin, studied social sciences and finished her studies with a doctorate. From 1917/18 she studied one semester as a guest lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. There their paths crossed with Käthe Markus, Elli Harnasch and the writer and later politician Ernst Toller. Margarete Pinner was able to win Ernst Toller for the Cultural Policy League of Youth, which campaigned for a socialist peace order. In 1917, Margarete Pinner and Ernst Toller wrote an official peace petition sent to socialist student groups at German universities. Reprisals followed and all members of the group were expelled from Baden.

Since 1919 Margarete cared for East Jewish immigrants (Jewish Volksheim, Berlin) and headed the Jewish proof of work. From 1923 she worked in the leadership of the Federation of Zionist Women (BZF) and published articles on social science issues. From 1928 to 1930 she worked for the Association of Jewish Women for Cultural Work in Palestine and from 1930 to 1933 in a senior position for the Scholarship and Welfare Fund of the department store Schocken.

In 1933, Margarete emigrated to Tel Aviv with her daughters Miriam and Rachel. Her divorced husband Walter Turnowsky, with whom she had already lived and worked in Palestine from 1925 to 1927, provided them with an entry permit. In 1939 they were succeeded by Margarete’s brother, the lawyer Ernst Pinner (1889-1947), with his second wife Rozalia Rozka (born Fischer, 1906-1967) and the two children Magdalena and Stefan. The family settled in Moshav Bejt Yizchak, built a small house there and operated chicken and fattening farms with a further 59 settler families. Stefan Pinner still lives there today with his wife Chann and his three children. After his emigration, his son Hananja had received a training place, which came about due to the intercession of his uncle Walter, in the pottery becoming Stoke-on-Trent in Great Britain, but had been interned in a British camp after the outbreak of war with the Hitler regime. In 1943 he was also allowed to travel to Palestine via Australia. From 1943 to 1946 he fought as a soldier in a Jewish unit of the English Army in Cyprus and Egypt, returned to Palestine in 1946 and became a member of the Kibbutz Ein Grev. During the War of Independence in 1948, he became a heavy