 Gertrud Bondy was a medical doctor as well as a psychologist in training with Sigmund Freud.Gertrud and her husband Max founded a series of schools focusing on, “psychoanalytic understanding of human development and a desire to educate children to build and thrive in a pluralistic, democratic society” including a school in the town of Marineau.Annemarie observed the strong independent educational ideals very early in life in the school that her parents were creating.