Anna Stemmermann

Anna Stemmermann (born October 12, 1874 in Altenbruch ; † April 14, 1926 in Bremen ) was a German pedagogue and doctor.

biography

Stemmermann was the daughter of a doctor. She graduated from the secondary school for girls in Otterndorf and, from 1886, the Bringemann School in Bremen. Then she attended the teachers' seminar in Wolfenbüttel . First she hired herself as a private tutor and then as a teacher at the Bremen school of her aunt Ida Wohlers. From 1886 to 1889 she attended a grammar school in Berlin and obtained her Abitur through an examination at the old grammar school in Bremen .

She studied medicine at the University of Göttingen , the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1902 at the University of Bonn . From 1905 she was an assistant doctor at the insane asylum, the St. Jürgen Asylum in Osterholz . She did her PhD in Dr. med. in Leipzig . In 1907 she opened her practice in Bremen-Mitte , at Fedellisten No. 87, making her the first and, until 1920, only doctor to be licensed in Bremen.

In addition, she taught health education in the women's employment and training association and at the Ida-Wohlers-Schule and was involved in the Bremen housewives association . With a high level of social commitment, she campaigned for unemployed and poor people and helped establish the Bremen youth welfare system. In 1929 the Dr.-med.-Anna-Stemmermann-Stiftung was founded , through which social projects such as a central lunch table for the needy and a resting place for working women were financed. The foundation worked together with the Ottilie Hoffmann House until 1949, i.e. until after the funds were lost due to the currency reform .

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .