Anne-Marie Durand-Wever

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Anne-Marie Durand-Wever at the founding congress of the DFD in 1947

Anne-Marie Durand-Wever , b. Wever (born October 30, 1889 in Paris , † September 14, 1970 in Overath-Heiligenhaus ) was a German gynecologist and co-founder of Pro Familia .

Life

She was born as the daughter of the German diplomat Walther Wever and his wife Anne-Marie, b. von Harbou, born. Due to her father's diplomatic missions, Anne-Marie Durand-Wever grew up in Bulgaria, Romania, Brazil and the USA. The young woman, who only had private tuition until she was 10, graduated from high school in Chicago . There she then studied chemistry. In 1910 she received her Bachelor of Science. From 1910 to 1915 he studied medicine in Marburg, Strasbourg and Munich. In 1915 she passed her state examination and obtained her doctorate in 1917. med. She then worked as an assistant doctor at the Munich University Women's Clinic, among others.

In December 1916 she married the German architect Wilhelm Durand. In 1917 and 1924 son Ernst-August and daughter Anne-Marie were born in Munich.

From 1920 Durand-Wever was active in German women's associations and founded the Bavarian State Group of the German Medical Association, which she chaired during the First World War . In 1927 she opened her own practice in Berlin-Schöneberg, founded a "trust center for engaged and married couples" and advocated early education for girls.

After the Nazis came to power, she was excluded from the Reichsschrifttumskammer due to contrary views on social hygiene and education and had to give up all social and political honorary posts. Several of her books on topics such as sexual education, contraception and birth control were included on the 1938 list of harmful and undesirable literature .

After the end of the war she continued to volunteer. From 1947 to April 1948 she was federal chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany . In 1952 she was co-founder and deputy chairwoman of the German Society for Family Planning, Sex Education and Sexual Counseling Pro Familia in Kassel, and she was also an employee of its international umbrella organization IPPF .

Anne-Marie Durand-Wever died on September 14, 1970 in Overath-Heiligenhaus near Cologne in her son's house.

Fonts

  • Conscious motherhood through birth control . Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt, 1948
  • Normal and abnormal processes in the female body . Volk und Wissen Verlag, 1946
  • The mature woman: progression and relief of menopause . Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1937
  • Prevention of pregnancy . Antäus-Verlag, Hamburg, 1931
  • The healthy woman becomes a mother . Safari Verlag, Berlin, around 1930

literature

Web links

Commons : Anne-Marie Durand-Wever  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freie Universität Berlin: Documentation: Doctors in the Empire ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.fu-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Munziger: Anne-Marie Durand-Wever in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  3. ^ Capital portal of the state of Berlin: Banished books
  4. ↑ Cornelius Ryan : The Last Battle , p. 30 . Simon & Schuster, 1995
  5. ^ Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship: Biographical Databases: Durand-Wever, Anne-Marie
  6. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 139.
personal data
SURNAME Durand-Wever, Anne-Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wever, Anne-Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and co-founder of Pro Familia
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1970
Place of death Heiligenhaus (Overath)