German Association of Women Doctors

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German Medical Association
(DÄB)
purpose Association of female and male doctors
Chair: President: Christiane Groß
Establishment date: 1924
Seat : Berlin
Website: www.aerztinnenbund.de

The German Ärztinnenbund eV (DÄB) is a professional association of doctors and dentists of all disciplines and fields of activity. He represents their professional and socio-political interests in public and in politics . The association calls for equal opportunities for women and men in the workplace and health research and care that differentiates according to gender .

The association is a member of the German Women's Council , the umbrella organization of women's associations and groups in Germany.

history

founding

The German Medical Association was founded on October 25, 1924 in Berlin under the name of the Association of German Women Doctors . The background was an offer of membership by the World Medical Association to the German colleagues. The founders of the association were the Berlin gynecologist Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen , the doctor Lilly Meyer-Wedell, the pediatrician Laura Turnau, the Dresden gynecologist Dorothea Dietrich and the gynecologist Toni von Langsdorff from Essen. They formulated a call for women doctors in Germany to join forces. 280 women doctors joined the association when it was founded - around 12 percent of the total of 2,500 German women doctors.

Synchronization and later dissolution under National Socialism

With the takeover of power by the National Socialists, the standardization of the health system and the medical professional organizations was initiated. In March 1933, the BDÄ had over 900 members, representing more than a quarter of the 3,400 female doctors who existed in the German Reich at that time. 572 female doctors were described as “non-Aryan”, about half of them practicing in Berlin. Until 1933, these colleagues played an important role in the association of the Association of German Doctors. In the course of bringing all clubs and associations into line under National Socialism, the association acknowledged the goals of the NSDAP and the exclusion of all Jewish or communist members and was subsequently excluded from the World Medical Association. By the end of June 1933, all female doctors of Jewish descent had been excluded. These included Else Liefmann , Lilly Meyer-Wedell and Laura Turnau , three of the six members of the founding board. According to the new Reichsärzteordnung, the Federation of German Doctors had to dissolve in 1936. However, the former members are said to have continued to meet in Hanover and Dortmund.

New establishment as the German Medical Association (DÄB)

In 1946 the "Hannoversche Ärztinnengruppe" was established. There were no groups in the Soviet-occupied zone and in the later GDR. On June 9, 1947, some women doctors founded the “Bavarian Medical Association” as a “combat organization” because they wanted to settle down as statutory health insurance doctors and were prevented from doing so. Unmarried female doctors were not admitted because they had no families. Married women were denied admission because their husbands' income was taken into account. After a long period of preparation, in which the number of members exceeded 1200, the doctors organized again nationwide in 1950. The German Medical Association , which was founded as a registered association at the time, still exists today.

The Dr. Edith Grünheit , who also supports doctors who have got into financial difficulties through no fault of their own . The association is committed to health research and health care that differentiates according to gender in the sense of sex as a biological and gender as a social category.

subjects

The association deals, among other things, with the topic of work and family and calls for more family-friendly working conditions for women doctors and a quota for women in medicine. In addition, the members are committed to better career opportunities and a broader awareness of women in science.

Periodicals

Since 1924 the association has published the journal Ärztin (since 2017 ärzt in ) , which appears three times a year. The first edition in 1924 read:

“Just as the mother in the family complements the harder nature of the father to create beautiful harmony, so we would like the previously exclusively male principle to experience a balance in popular life, through greater cooperation by maternal women in areas that, by their nature, have been worked on and in professions that are particularly suited to her maternal attitude, such as our medical one, we would like her not to imitate the man's style, but always to be careful to show her own style. With the same knowledge and ability, she then complements what is missing in the man's work. "

In the editions since 2009, the magazine deals, among other things, with 100 years of women's suffrage and reported on the scientific conferences and congresses of the DÄB and the 28th International World Medical Congress 2010. Other topics: "Careers in Medicine", "Doctors", " Doctors and Migration "," Doctors and Freelance "," Young Doctors - Old Barriers "," Generation Y with New Demands? "As well as" Gender-Specific Medicine and Health "," Ethics in Medicine "," Medical Studies: Masterplan 2020 under review " , "Full-time - part-time - free time: Do women doctors have a choice?", "Doctors in the committees of self-administration", "Shortage of doctors: fact or fiction?"

Awards

The association regularly awards a science prize for young female researchers and the "Silver Pen" for outstanding depictions of health and illness in children's and youth literature and, since 2001, the "Courageous Lioness", which applies to women who prevail against resistance - if necessary with teeth and claws.

Foundation Science Prize of the German Association of Women Doctors

The Deutsches Ärztinnenbund eV encourages and supports young women doctors on their scientifically begun career path. For this purpose, the Science Prize of the German Medical Association is awarded every two years . The prize is financed by the foundation established by the German Medical Association in 2001. The foundation is recognized as a non-profit organization. The trustee for the dependent foundation is the Deutsche Ärztinnenbund eV Five donors have started with a generous sum, and several donations have been made in this way.

Award winners
  • 2019: Ute Seeland, winner of the 10th Science Award of the German Medical Association
    • Gender differences in arterial pulse wave reflection and the influence of endogenous and exogenous sex hormones: results of the Berlin Age Study II.
  • 2017: Sarah Estelmann, winner of the 9th Science Award of the German Medical Association
    • Influence of gender on clinical and psychosocial outcome after living kidney donation.
  • 2015: Elisabeth Livingstone and Jelena Kornej, winners of the 8th Science Award of the German Medical Association
    • To what extent do statins, which lower high blood cholesterol, also affect the progression of malignant skin tumors?
  • 2013: Katrin Bachelier-Walenta, winner of the 7th Science Award of the German Medical Association
    • Pathognomonic microparticle profiles in cardiomyopathies
  • 2011: Maike Pincus , winner of the 6th Science Award of the German Medical Association
    • Stress during pregnancy promotes allergic diseases in the child
  • 2009: Katharina Domschke , winner of the 5th Science Award of the German Medical Association
    • Genes and Gender - The COMT gene and mental illness in women
  • 2007: Beate Klimm , winner of the 4th Science Award of the German Association of Women Doctors
    • Gender-specific aspects of Hodgkin lymphoma
  • 2005: Bettina Pfleiderer, winner of the 3rd science award from the German Association of Women Doctors
    • Getting to the bottom of neural differences
  • 2003: Petra Arck, winner of the 2nd science award of the German Medical Association
    • Feto-Maternal Immune Tolerance - Regulation, Modulation and Interdisciplinary Relevance
  • 2001: Antonia JM Joussen, winner of the 1st science award of the German Medical Association
    • Diabetic retinopathy (leukocytes mediate endothelial cell death and in jury in diabetic retinopathie).

The Silver Feather - Children's and Young People's Book Prize

The Silver Feather has been awarded every two years by the German Medical Association since 1974. The children's and young people's book prize honors outstanding books that deal with the topics of health and illness in the broadest sense. The works must be in German or translated into German. The prize can be awarded to a picture book, a narrative book, or a non-fiction book. Further outstanding titles are presented in a recommendation list.

The 2017 Silver Feather was awarded to the Dutch author Anna Woltz and her German translator Andrea Kluitmann for the children's and youth book “Plaster of Paris or how I repaired the world in a single day” published by Carlsen Verlag .

  • Andreas Steinhöfel received the 2015 Silver Feather for his children's book “Anders”.
  • Susan Kreller received the Silver Feather 2013 for the children's novel “You don't see elephants”.
  • Martin Baltscheit received the Silver Feather 2011 for his picture book "The story of the fox who lost his mind"
  • Guus Kuijer received the silver pen 2007 for the children's book entitled "A heavenly place"
  • Michael Ducke received the Silver Feather 2005 for his book "Father and Daughter"
  • Heleny Kynast received the Silver Spring 2003 for her book "Sunshine"
  • The Silver Feather 2001 received Stefan Casta for his book "The Mary-Lou case"
  • Hermann Schulz received the silver spring 1999 for his book "Auf dem Strom"
  • Nina Rauprich and David Hill received the Silver Feather 1997 for their books "The Year with Anne" and "Until then, Simon"

"Brave Lioness" 2001 to 2017

  • 2017: Brigitte Ende, specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, received the award as a campaigner for women's rights and the cause of women doctors.
  • 2015: Monika Hauser , founder of the women's rights organization medica mondiale with the aim of providing medical and psychological help to women who were traumatized by the war. She received the award in recognition of her commitment, courage, assertiveness, tenacity and perseverance in her tireless work for women in crisis areas.
  • 2013: Marianne Schrader, Lübeck, was recognized for her many years of outstanding commitment to the German Medical Association and for her work for the mentor network of the German Medical Association (DÄB).
  • 2011: Ute Otten, former President of the German Medical Association, brought 20,000 DM hidden in an oatmeal bag to Bosnia to support a medica mondiale center for war-traumatized women.
  • 2009: Annegret Schoelle r, specialist in occupational and environmental medicine, was honored for her commitment to accompanying and supporting the medical committees in the German Medical Association.
  • 2007: Maria Fick, specialist in general medicine and member of the ethics committee of the Bavarian State Medical Association, was recognized for her committed advocacy for more development opportunities for women doctors.
  • 2005: Barbara Ehret-Wagner was honored for her combative demeanor against structural weaknesses in the health system.
  • 2003: As a veterinarian, Margrit Herbst receives the award for her commitment and moral courage at the Bad Bramstedt slaughterhouse.
  • 2001: Andrea Rieber-Brams was the first radiologist to receive the award, because she vehemently advocated an appropriate decision when she appointed the first professor of general surgery as the deputy women's representative at Ulm University.

literature

  • Eckelmann, Christine: Doctors in the Weimar period and during National Socialism: a study on the Association of German Doctors , wft, publishing house for science, research and technology, Wermelskirchen 1992, ISBN 3-9290-9500-9 .

Individual evidence


  1. ↑ https://www.aerztinnenbund.de/Vorstand.0.175.1.html
  2. ↑ Internet site of the German Association of Women Doctors , accessed on February 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ Internet site of the German Women's Council , accessed on February 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Hertha Nathorff : April 16, 1933 diary entry for the Assembly of the Association of German Doctors. , die-quellen-rechen.de.
  5. ↑ Chronicle of the German Medical Association , accessed on February 5, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Medical Association calls for a quota for women in medicine" , article in Deutsches Ärzteblatt from January 21, 2014, accessed on February 5, 2014.