Louise Wilhelmine Holborn

Louise Wilhelmine Holborn (8 August 1898, Charlottenburg – 1975, Orange City, Florida) was a German-American political scientist. She was a professor at Connecticut College from the late 1940s until 1970. She specialized in the politics of refugees and migration, conducting a number of studies on the topic for organizations like the United Nations, and she was also an advocate for refugees.

Career Holborn was born in Charlottenburg in 1898. The historian Hajo Holborn was Louise Holborn's brother, and their father was the physicist Ludwig Holborn. After graduating from high school, she became involved in social administration and the women's movement.

Holborn supplemented her academic work on the politics of refugees and immigration with advocacy and policy work for organizations like the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and the International Refugee Organization. She died later that same year.

Selected works The First High Commission for Refugees of the League of Nations (1956) Refugees, A Problem of Our Time: the Office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (1974)

Selected awards Nansen Refugee Award, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1971) Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Officer's cross, first class (1975)