Clara Hammerl

Clara Hammerl (5 March 1858 – 9 October 1931) was a Majorcan teacher in Pollença and the first woman to lead a Spanish financial institution, the Pollença Savings Bank.

Biography Clara Hammerl was born in Bromberg, Prussia, modern-day Poland, to a locomotive driver Friedrich Hammerl and Emma Müller. Clara had a sister who was two years younger, Marie Ida Bertha Hammerl. Little is known about Clara's childhood and youth except that she was baptized in the Lutheran church.

In 1887 she was teaching a German language course at the University of Berlin that was attended by the wealthy and educated Mallorcan Guillem Cifre de Colonya, adopted son of a large landowner. He wanted to learn German so he could read the original writings of his favorite German philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause. Clara Hammerl and her former student married on 7 October 1889 at the registry office in Berlin-Kreuzberg when she was 31 years old. After the civil wedding, the couple moved to Pollença on the Spanish island of Mallorca, where her husband was born. In 2013, the town of Pollença posthumously named Clara Hammerl an honorary citizen of the municipality In 2018, the first Clara Hammerl Awards were distributed to eight teachers at Pollença town hall