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Else Freiin von Richthofen [1] (October 8, 1874 – December 22, 1973) was among the early female social scientists in Germany. Life and career. Elisabeth Helene Amalie Sophie Freiin (Baroness) von Richthofen (also known as Else Jaffé) was born into the German nobility at Château-Salins ( France ).
Elisabeth Frieda Amélie Sophie Freiin von Richthofen war eine deutsche Gewerbeinspektorin und Sozialwissenschaftlerin. Sie ist bekannt als eine der ersten Sozialwissenschaftlerinnen in Deutschland.
German intellectual and social activist, sister of Frieda Lawrence, who was the first woman appointed by the state to monitor the rights of women factory workers. Born in the French city of Metz, in Lorraine, in 1874; eldest of three daughters of Friedrich von Richthofen (a civil engineer) and Anna (Marquier) von Richthofen; sister of Frieda ...
particular, he became known through his marriage to Else von Richthofen (1874-1973) in 1902. The couple were seen as figures of fact and fiction in the antinomic world inhabited by Max and Marianne Weber, Otto and Frieda Gross, and D.H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen. Else v. Richthofen was mythologized as 'a muse of the
Else von Richthofen (1874-1973), a distant relative of the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen, was one of the first female social scientists in Germany, and wife of the German economist Edgar Jaffé. Elisabeth Helene Amalie Sophie Freiin (Baroness) von Richthofen (also known as Else Jaffé) was born in Château-Salins, France on October 8, 1874.
Else von Richthofen was born on October 8, 1874, the daughter of Baron Friedrich von Richthofen and his wife Anna née Marquier. She had two younger sisters, Frieda and Johanna. Else became the first female factory inspector in the state of Baden, and was Max Weber's first female doctoral student.
The „Richthofen Sisters“ were typical avant-gardists of their time, Else (1874-1973) and Frieda (1879-1956). Else earned her PhD as one of the first women at a German University. Her professional life began 1901 at the newly founded industrial inspectorate in Baden, where she enforced safety and occupational health of workers.
