Anna Essinger
This history spot in Ulm connects you with Anna Essinger, a German-Jewish educator born here in 1879. Her family included eight younger children in Ulm. After moving to the United States at twenty, she encountered Quaker ideas that shaped her educational thinking. She returned to Germany in 1919 and helped establish the Landschulheim Herrlingen boarding school in 1926.
The school brought children of different religions together in a coeducational community built on respect and shared responsibility. Two languages, spoken practice, physical exercise and communal life formed part of each child’s daily education. In 1933, Essinger moved the school and 66 children to England, where it became Bunce Court School. That refuge supported Jewish children during the war and connected her with the Kindertransport, including a reception camp for 10,000 German children.
After the war, Essinger also cared for children who survived Nazi concentration camps. By 1948, Bunce Court had educated and supported more than 900 children. A school in Ulm now preserves her connection with the city.
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