Claire Loewenfeld

Claire Loewenfeld, born Lewisohn in Tbingen, Germany was a nutritionist and herbalist who worked in England during and after the Second World War promoting the importance of good nutrition, most notably rosehips from Britains hedgerows as a source of vitamin C. She studied at Maximilian BircherBenners clinic in Zurich, Switzerland, and worked as a dietician at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, where she developed a fruit and vegetable diet for the treatment of coeliac disease.

Claire was born in Berlin, Germany. Her parents were Arthur and Jeanette Lewisohn. She married Gnther Emmanuel Loewenfeld onJuly 1921. They continued to live in Berlin in the period following their marriage. Both Claire and Gnther were from Jewish families however, Gnther was brought up in the Protestant faith. Between 1923 and 1925 they spent their weekends with friends Fritz and Lily Pincus in a rented house, in Glienicke, on the outskirts of Potsdam. In 1925 the Loewenfelds and Pincuses moved out of Berlin to adjacent rented properties which they shared on the Kssel, a peninsula jutting out into Lake Templiner in a rural district of Potsdam. Both husbands commuted to Berlin to work. By 1931 Claire and Gnther had two children, Peter and Verena, likewise the Pincuses had two children. Both couples also had their relatives living with them from time to time and as more living space was needed they decided to buy their respective properties enlarging and linking them. Das Haus auf

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