Else regensteiner biography of albert

Else Regensteiner was born on April 21, 1906 in Munich, Germany and was the only child of Ludwig and Hilda Friedsam. She went to the Deutsche Frauenschule in Munich in 1924 to study early childhood education, ultimately receiving a teaching degree in order to become a kindergarten teacher.

In 1926, she married Bertold Regensteiner, who operated a clothespin factory with his father and brothers. The same year, Regensteiner's mother, who had been widowed in 1924, married Ludwig Bachhofer, a professor at the University of Munich.

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Regensteiner's only child, Helga, was born in 1926 in Freiburg, Germany. In 1935, Regensteiner's mother and step-father moved to Chicago when officials at the University of Munich demanded Bachhofer divorce his Jewish wife.

After her husband's family business was confiscated by the Nazis, Regensteiner, her husband, and her daughter joined her parents in Chicago.

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