Elisabeth noelle-neumann biography for kids

German political scientist (1916–2010)

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (19 December 1916 – 25 March 2010) was a German political scientist. Her most famous contribution is the model of the spiral of silence, detailed in The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion – Our Social Skin.

The model is an explanation of how perceived public opinion can influence individual opinions or actions.

Biography

Elisabeth Noelle was born to Ernst and Eve Noelle in 1916 in the Villa Noelle^[1] in Grunewald, a suburb of Berlin.^[2] First Elisabeth went to several schools in Berlin and then switched to the prestigious Salem Castle School, which she also left one year later.

She earned her Abitur in 1935 in Göttingen and then studied philosophy, history, journalism, and American studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, and the Königsberg Albertina University. When she visited Obersalzberg on 13 June 1937 with 23 other students, she by chance had an encounte