After finishing high school in Braunschweig and Darmstadt, she was educated (from 1923) at the Fröbelseminar in Kassel, and from 1924 at the Inner missions girls' school in  Berlin. In 1929 she became a teacher at the Mission House Malche in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) in German, psychology and church history.
She attended high school in Braunschweig and Darmstadt before moving to Kassel to study at the Fröbelseminar from 1923. From 1924 onwards, she studied at the Inner missions girls' school in Berlin. In 1929, she became a teacher at the Mission House Malche in Bad Freienwalde (Oder), Germany, specializing in psychology and church history.