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German educator and Righteous Among the Nations recipient

Luise Wilhelmine Elisabeth Abegg (German:[eˈliːzabɛtˈʔaːbɛk]^ⓘ; 3 March 1882 – 8 August 1974) was a German educator and resistance fighter against Nazism.

Elisabeth Abegg, a Berlin school teacher and a believing Quaker, was dismissed in by the.

Elisabeth Abegg, a Berlin school teacher and a believing Quaker, was dismissed in by the.

Luise Wilhelmine Elisabeth Abegg was a German educator and resistance fighter against Nazism.

Elisabeth Abegg was born on March 3, , in more tolerant times than those on her horizon.

Abegg, born in Strasbourg in , was one of the first German women to obtain a university education.

In Elizabeth and her sister Julie created the SAG group to help Jewish students who had been expelled from German public schools.

She provided shelter to around 80 Jews during the Holocaust and was consequently recognised as Righteous Among the Nations.

Biography

Abegg was born in 1882 in Strasbourg, then a part of Germany, to Johann Friedrich Abegg, a jurist, and Marie Caroline Elisabeth (Rähm) Abegg.

In 1912, she enrolled at Leipzig University, where she studied history, classical philology and Romance studies, and graduated with a doctorate in 1916.^[1] She moved to Berlin in 1918 when the Alsace region was reclaimed by France.

In Berlin, she became involved in postwar relief work organised by the Quaker community.^[2] She became a teacher at the Luisengymnasium Berlin [de] in Berlin-Mitte in 1924 and was an active member of the Ger