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.
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), Germany, teaching psychology and church history.