Leonore Goldschmidt

Leonore Goldschmidt (née Zweig; 17 November 1897 in Gosda/Brandenburg, Germany – 7 March 1983 in London, England) was a German teacher who founded the Goldschmidt School in 1935 in Berlin.

Leonore Zweig was the daughter of Wilhelm Zweig, a brickworks owner, and grew up in a village in Lusatia. In 1916 she took her final school exams (Abitur) at the Grunewald-Gymnasium (since 1946 Walther-Rathenau-Schule ()) in Berlin-Grunewald.

From 1916 to 1921 she studied English, German and History in Jena and Berlin and received a doctorate from Heidelberg University. She worked as teacher in England und Berlin, 1922 at the Cecilien-Schule in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and from 1925 on at the Sophie-Charlotte-Gymnasium in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Being Jewish she lost her position in 1933.

In 1923 Leonore married the lawyer Ernst Goldschmidt. They had two children: Gertrud (1924) and Rudolf (1925).

In order to improve on her English language, in 1931 Leonore travelled to England and studied at St Christopher School in Letchworth. There she met and befriended a Quaker couple, headmaster Mr Lyn Harris and his wife Eleanor Harris. Their educational views, which included senior students being involved in decision-making and promoting freedom, shaped Lenore's educational own approach to teaching.

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