Hildegard Feidel-Mertz
Hildegard Feidel-Mertz (born 19 May 1930 – 23 October 2013) was a German educational researcher. Life Born in Frankfurt, Mertz was born in a working class household. She studied at the Goethe University Frankfurt and was promoted her doctorate in 1963 with Theodor W. Adorno and . From 1967 to 1972, she was employed at the Institute for Social Pedagogy and Adult Education at the University of Frankfurt, after which she became Professor for Youth and Adult Education in the Department of Social Work at the Gesamthochschule Kassel. Her main areas of work were the history of adult education, the history of workers' education, women's education and , especially Jewish exile. She also had a major influence on research into the existing in Germany between 1933 and 1938. Together with Hermann Schnorbach, Feidel-Mertz built up the "Sammlung Pädagogisch- Politische Emigration 1933-1945 (PPE)", which is now housed in the "Deutsches Exilarchiv" (German Exile Archive) of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Frankfurt. She was the editor of several publications on the history of the educational exile. In 1977, Feidel-Mertz acquired the house where Richard Huelsenbeck was born in Frankenau for her mother, a native of Frankenau, and also set up a small exhibition