Hilde Gudilla Lion (1893–1970) was a German Jewish academic and teacher of

social worker Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social wo ...

s who emigrated to England in 1933, after the

Nazi seizure of power The rise to power of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919, when Hitler joined the '' Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'' (DAP; German Workers' Party). He quickly rose t ...

. She founded

Stoatley Rough School Stoatley Rough School was a school founded in 1934 by Dr Hilde Lion in Haslemere in England. It was for Jewish children who were refugees from Germany, helping them acclimatise to British education. Bertha Bracey – an organiser of the Quaker G ...

in the Quaker tradition for German refugees in 1934 and was its headmistress until 1960. Dr.

Emmy Wolff Emmy Wolff (25 December 1890 in Bernburg an der Saale – 9 November 1969 in Haslemere, Surrey, England) was a German-British sociologist, educator, poet and women's movement publicist and activist. Life and work Emmy was the eldest of three ...

became second in command at the school in 1937.

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1893 births 1970 deaths Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom Heads of schools in England Social work education Academic staff of the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin {{Academic-administrator-stub