Auguste Hoffmann

Auguste Hoffmann (born December 2, 1902 in Halle (Saale) , † October 24, 1989 in Berlin ) was one of the first German sports medicine specialists.

Life

As the daughter of Captain Ulrich Hoffmann, she often changed schools in line with her father's transfers before she passed her Abitur at the Cecilienschule in Berlin-Wilmersdorf at Easter 1922 and first began studying medicine at the University of Halle for two semesters, then training at the Graduated from the Prussian University for Physical Education in Berlin-Spandau in 1923/24 before continuing her medical studies in Halle at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the University of Vienna from 1925 to 1927. She completed her physics in Halle at Easter 1925, and passed her state examination two years later . With a doctorate in Haim Ernst Wertheimer was in January 1927 his doctorate .

After her license to practice medicine in 1929, she initially worked as a resident doctor in Berlin. She also held a consultation hour in the German Sports Forum . After the National Socialists came to power in 1934, she became a district doctor, then a senior doctor in the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM). From 1936 to 1940 she was a research assistant at the University Institute for Physical Exercise at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (FWU) and also a doctor at the German University for Physical Exercise and the Reich Academy for Physical Exercise . As the medical supervisor of the 1936 Olympic team, she carried out race-biological studies on Olympic participants. In 1938 she completed her habilitation in sports medicine . From 1940 she was a lecturer in sports medicine at the FWU. After the war, she first became a senior assistant at the Anatomical and Anatomical-Biological Institute of the Medical Faculty of the University of Berlin, before she became Professor of Sports Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Berlin in 1946. In 1948 she was temporarily transferred to the University of Greifswald due to political unreliability , where she was made head of the Anatomical Institute. Because of a lack of staff, she is quickly brought back to Berlin. Here she quit in 1951 and moved to West Berlin, where she initially worked at the Max Planck Institute for Silicate Research . She waited for a research grant before becoming a research assistant at the Anatomical Institute of the Free University of Berlin in 1953 . In 1954 she became associate professor at the same institute and in 1955 she became associate professor and in 1965 full professor for sports medicine at the Pedagogical University Berlin , where she retired in 1969. In 1967 she was prorector of the PH Berlin. Together with the botanist Volkmar Denckmann , she offered the interdisciplinary course “The world and human image of modern science”.

As a sports physician, she was a member of all relevant bodies of the German Sports Association , and she was also the chairwoman of the German Association of Women Academics . She represented a women's sport based on men's sport, which, even during the National Socialist era, did not focus on femininity and childbearing ability, but on physical and athletic performance and its anatomical-physiological conditions.

Publications (selection)

• Woman and physical exercise through the ages , Schorndorf, Karl Hofmann Verlag 1965
• (with Ingeborg Bausenwein ): Woman and physical exercises - evaluation of a survey on the role of physical exercises in the living habits of the population, Mülheim / Ruhr, deaf printing and publishing house 1967

literature

• Gerd Heinrich : Contributions to the history of the Berlin University of Education , Berlin, Colloquium Verlag 1980, p. 190

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www2.gender.hu-berlin.de/ausstellung/Infocomputer/Biographien/N_Hoffmann.html
2. ↑ Angelika Uhlmann: "Sport is the general practitioner at the sick camp of the German people". Wolfgang Kohlrausch (1888–1980) and the history of German sports medicine. Phil. Diss. Uni Freiburg 2004, p. 285
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4. ↑ Other departments were represented by Professors Walter Bünger (physics), Martin Hengst (nutrition science), Herbert Meschkowski (mathematics) and Reinhold Scharf (chemistry); see Pedagogical University Berlin (ed.): Festschrift for Volkmar Denckmann as a special volume of the negotiations of the Botanical Association of the Province of Brandenburg 1976, p. 15
5. ↑ Arnd Krüger . "Sieg Heil" to the most glorious era of German sport: Continuity and change in the modern German sports movement. In: International Journal of the History of Sport 4 (1987), 1, pp. 5-20.
6. ↑ Gertrud Pfister (Ed.): Woman and Sport . Frankfurt a. M. 1980, 121-123