Nelli Neumann

[1] After ten years in the private Höhere Töchterschule in Breslau, Neumann attended grammar courses and graduated from the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium boys' school in 1905.

[3] Turning down a post-doctoral position at the University of Breslau, Neumann then took courses that qualified her to become a secondary school teacher.

She also worked in the career counselling centre for female students at Göttingen, which had been set up by the Frauenbildung-Frauenstudium association.

After the First World War she moved to Essen, where she taught mathematics, physics and chemistry at the Luisenschule [de].

[3] Soon after the Nazis took power, on 27 September 1933, she lost her position under the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.