Margarete Berent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Margarete Berent

German jurist

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1887

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 23-Jun-1965

Profession: lawyer, jurist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Margarete Berent (born July 9, 1887 in Berlin, died June 23, 1965 in New York), also known as Margareth Berent or Grete Berent in the United States, was the first woman lawyer in Prussia.
She was the co-founder of the Association of Women Jurists and Association of German Women Academicians.
As a Jew, she suffered from persecution during the Nazi Regime and fled via Switzerland, Italy, and Chile to the United States, where she finally arrived in 1940.
After studying American law, she opened her second own law firm, now in the US, in 1951.