Jeanette Schwerin never lost her appetite for autodidactic education, and was able to deepen her knowledge of History, Philosophy and Applied Economics with study at Berlin University.
10 Facts About Jeanette Schwerin
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Jeanette Schwerin shared her religious background and family tradition of socially based community mutual care.
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Jeanette Schwerin joined Berlin's Verein Frauenwohl, the year of its creation by Minna Cauer.
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Jeanette Schwerin quickly became part of a small energetic network of feminist activists that included Lina Morgenstern and Helene Lange.
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Shortly after the society's foundation Jeanette Schwerin set up an information gathering centre which collected information on Berlin's various welfare organisations and initiatives in order to be able to provide emergency assistance to those in need faster and more appropriately.
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Jeanette Schwerin teamed up with Minna Cauer in 1893 to establish the "Girls' and Women's Group for Social Work".
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Jeanette Schwerin was initially uncertain about the direction the group might take, warning fellow members to avoid "dangerous dilettantism" and giving her own maxim as "not good works but welfare".
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Jeanette Schwerin expanded the so-called "Berlin course", which became "an annual course for training professional social work".
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Jeanette Schwerin was succeeded by Alice Salomon who joined the group in 1895 and quickly became Jeanette Schwerin's "right hand".
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Jeanette Schwerin died in Berlin a few months short of her forty-seventh birthday, probably from cancer.