Birgit Seemann

Birgit Seemann (* 1961 in Bad Windsheim ) is a German social and political scientist .

She was one of the first researchers on the subject of the state and gender in the Federal Republic of Germany, and received her doctorate in 1996 under Josef Esser (political scientist) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Afterwards she worked for many years at the Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors published by Renate Heuer and was the author of the Tribüne (magazine) . She has published biographies on Hedwig Lachmann , Jeanette Wolff and, for the first time, on Eleonore Sterling , an early anti-Semitism researcher sponsored by Max Horkheimer and the first German professor of political science . Since 2006 she is working on her research project mitaufgebauten Jewish Care History at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences with the nationwide one-stop website social history of Jewish nursing in Germany.

Major works

• Feminist state theory . The state in German research on women and patriarchy. Preface by Barbara Holland-Cunz . Leske and Budrich Verlag, Opladen 1996, ISBN 978-3-8100-1675-1
• Hedwig Landauer-Lachmann . Poet, anti-militarist, German Jew. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 1998, ISBN 978-3-593-35973-1
• Jeanette Wolff . Politician and committed democrat. (1888-1976). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2000, ISBN 978-3-593-36465-0
• "With the vanquished" . Hedwig Lachmann (1865–1918) German-Jewish writer and anti-militarist. With illustration by Uwe Rausch. Revised and updated new edition. Verlag Edition AV , Lich / Hessen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86841-073-0
• A feather weight champion Cassius Clay . Eleonore Sterling (1925–1968). German-Jewish fighter against anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism . Verlag Edition AV , Lich / Hessen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86841-078-5
• Birgit Seemann, Edgar Bönisch: The Gumpertz'sche Infirmary - a "Jewish Place" in Frankfurt am Main . History and stories of a Jewish charity. Brandes & Apsel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-95558-253-1
• Brigitte Geißel, Birgit Seemann (ed.): Education policy and gender . A European comparison. Leske and Budrich Verlag, Opladen 2001, ISBN 978-3-8100-3084-9