Hanka Grothendieck | |
|---|---|
 Grothendieck in 1917 | |
| Born | Johanna Grothendieck 21 August 1900 |
| Died | 16 December 1957 (aged 57) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, teacher |
| Spouse |
Alf Raddatz
(m. 1921; sep. 1924) |
| Partner | Sascha Schapiro (1924; d. 1941) |
| Children | Maidi Raddatz, Alexander Grothendieck |
Johanna "Hanka" Grothendieck (1900–1957) was a German writer, teacher and anarchist activist. The wife of Russian anarchist Sascha Schapiro and mother of the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, in 1933, she fled Nazi Germany to France, where she made a living as a German teacher. During World War II, she and her son were held in a number of French internment camps; the Nazis killed her husband in the Holocaust.