Lebensbilder jüdischer Akademikerinnen

Ausgewählte Medizinstudentinnen an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1900–1938

By (author) Birgit Formanski

Book cover: Lebensbilder jüdischer Akademikerinnen

Extent: 482 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Earth & Life Sciences , Jewish Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(November 2020)

ISBN: 9783847111610

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $99.00

Out of stock

Ungeachtet ihrer fruher Berufserfolge hatten etliche judische Arztinnen nach Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges unter erheblichen Vorbehalten der Kollegenschaft sowie Benachteiligungen bei Einstellungen zu leiden. Ab 1933 begann die anfangliche Ausgrenzung und spatere Verfolgung durch die Nationalsozialisten. Nicht allen gelang die Flucht ins Ausland. Manche schafften dort einen erfolgreichen Neuanfang. Nach der Flucht aus Nazideutschland praktizierten ehemalige Bonner judische Studentinnen als Arztinnen in acht verschiedenen Landern, darunter Bulgarien, Chile, Palastina und die Turkei.


Many of the first medical female students at Bonn University came from well-educated Jewish families. Without having had any kind of female example for themselves, most of them finished their studies with best exam results and, in some way, became the lead generation on the academic pathway for those female student generations to come. Despite early success in the job, after the end of World War I, a considerable number of these early medical female doctors were faced with reservation from their male colleagues and with discrimination during employment requests. Early 1933 they were excluded from certain medical doctor positions which later terminated in persecution by the Nazi regime. Not all managed to leave Germany in time; some of them successfully started a new career abroad. None of them never forgot the injustice which they had suffered.

  • By (author) Birgit Formanski