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Born: 08.07.1894, in: Dresden
Died: 26/03/1985, in: Dresden
Faculty: Mathematics and Physics
Academic title: Dr rer. techn.

Suse Weiner was born in Dresden on 8 July 1894. Her father Hans Victor Weiner was an architect and master builder. After attending a secondary school in Dresden for five years, she went to the Dresden Neustadt girls' secondary school, which she left in 1911. She then attended E. Burchardi's cookery and housekeeping school in Eisenach for a year. After three years of domestic work, she began to prepare for her school-leaving examination with the help of private lessons and attended the "Studienanstalt für Mädchen" (girls' college) in Dresden for two years. Here she passed her A-levels in 1918.

At the age of 24, Suse Weiner began her studies at the Dresden University of Technology (THD). She studied maths and physics here, interrupted by one semester each at the universities of Rostock and Munich. In 1923, she passed the examination for the higher education authority at the THD and obtained her doctorate the following year under Gerhard Kowalewski with a thesis entitled "On the natural geometry of the projective group".

After completing her preparatory service at the state teacher training seminar in Dresden-Johannstadt, she initially taught at public schools in Dresden for two years until she was permanently employed by the city of Dresden at the Dresden-Neustadt Municipal Secondary School for Girls in 1926. She taught at this school - as a teacher - until March 1946, briefly interrupting her teaching career in 1945 to work at the Laubegast Missing Persons Register and at the Wachwitz primary school from June to October.

After the Second World War, Suse Weiner was categorised as "apolitical". Before 1933, she had not belonged to any party or political organisation; she had only been a member of the Saxon Philologists' Association. During the National Socialist era, she had only belonged to the compulsory teachers' associations; she was considered politically untainted and was therefore allowed to continue working as a teacher in the Soviet occupation zone.

On 22 March 1946, the first Dresden preparatory course for university studies was opened and in autumn the first 205 young people were released, just in time for enrolment at the THD, which reopened in the winter semester of 1946/47. From October 1947, the courses ran under the name "Vorstudienanstalt" and in 1949 the preparatory course was integrated into the universities and colleges as the Workers' and Farmers' Faculty (ABF). The ABF began operating at the THD on 1 October 1949 with 350 enrolled students. From the beginning, i.e. from March 1946, and until her retirement, Suse Weiner taught as a lecturer in the preparatory courses. She was head of the mathematics department at the ABF of the TH Dresden until September 1951. She retired on 31 August 1954 for health reasons.

Despite the long journey to work, she had always lived in her parents' house in Dresden-Niederpoyritz and only moved into a much more centrally located flat when she retired, where she died on 27 March 1985 at a ripe old age.