Edith Lölhöffel from Löwensprung

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Edith Lölhöffel von Löwensprung (born Unterberger ; born March 13, 1896 in Berlin , † 1941 in Berlin) was a German doctor and sports medicine specialist.

biography

Edith Lölhöffel, b. Unterberger, was born as the daughter of a student councilor in Berlin and was a member of the Wandervogels in her youth.She passed the Abitur at the Auguste-Viktoria-Reform-Realgymnasium in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1917 and studied medicine from 1917 to 1922 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms- University of Berlin . Since 1920 she was a member of the Hochschulring Deutscher Art and of the Association for Germanness Abroad . In 1924 she did her doctorate “On the Relationship Between Ovulation and Menstruation” , in 1928 (according to other information in 1923) she was licensed as a sports doctor, Lölhöffel practiced in Berlin.

Sports students at the German University for Physical Exercise

In 1923 she married Erich Lölhöffel von Löwensprung . From 1923 to 1927 Lölhöffel worked at clinics in Berlin-Neu-Westend and Berlin-Lichterfelde and gave medical courses at the Charlottenburg youth home. From 1926 to 1936 Lölhöffel was active in the Association of German Doctors . In 1928 she was permanently employed at the German University of Physical Exercise and in 1929 she was appointed to the Prussian University of Physical Exercise ( Berlin-Spandau ), from 1930 Lölhöffel received teaching assignments at the Berlin University Institute for Physical Exercise and was a sports doctor at the Berlin University, she gave up these activities for health reasons 1932 on.

From 1933 Lölhöffel was involved in the Nazi Reichsbund for physical exercises , the Bund Deutscher Mädel , the Reichsarbeitsdienst and the Nazi women's association . At the Olympic Games in 1936 Lölhöffel was the supervisor of the German athletes, in 1937 she took over the editing of the magazine Die Ärztin and was German delegate at the congress of the International Association of Women Doctors in Stockholm. Lölhöffel is described as a staunch anti-Semite and National Socialist, so she countered accusations of "masculinization" and possible inability to give birth as a result of competitive sports with the "argument that is unbeatable in the sense of Nazi ideology", as a result of which broad-shouldered and muscular bodies express the affiliation of most female athletes to the "Nordic" and Nordic-Dinaric racial proportion “.

Lölhöffel had four children, of whom the only son, Götz von Lölhöffel, died in Russia in 1943. Edith Lölhöffel died in Berlin in 1941.

Publications

  • On the Relationship Between Ovulation and Menstruation, ”(Dissertation, 1924)
  • From the work of sports medicine at the DH f. L. Women's gymnastics and sports conference. Berlin 1929
  • Physical education in the family. (Monthly German Doctors 5 (1929), 157–158)
  • To the competitive sport of women. (Mschr.Dtsch. Doctors 6 (1930), 260)
  • Sport as therapy in women's practice. (In: Advances in Medicine. Berlin 1931, quoted from: Ärztin 12 (1936), p. 15)
  • The health situation of the housewife and its influence through gymnastics and sport. (Doctor 8 (1932), 171–176)
  • Sport and life's work of women. (In: Leibesübungen 1932, p. 301, quoted from: Ärztin 16 (1936), 15)
  • Woman and physical exercise. (In: Knoll-Arnold: Normal and pathological psychology of physical exercises. Leipzig 1933, pp. 205–226, 300–302)
  • Guiding principles for the physical education of female students at German universities. (Doctor 10 (1934), 118–121)
  • Report on the 3rd Congress of the International Federation of Women Doctors (Ärztin 10 (1934), 151–153)
  • The effects of physical education on the development, structure and activity of the female body according to the medical experience of the Nordic countries. (Doctor 10 (1934), 155–162, 169–177)
  • Women's sport and womanhood. (Doctor 12 (1936), pp. 10–15)
  • Sports medical experience in women's sports. (In: II. International Sports Physicians Congress Berlin 1936. Negotiation report. Leipzig 1937, pp. 387–391)
  • Five years of imperial women leadership. (Doctor 15 (1939), 40–44)
  • Hopsa Tralla: A song u. Game booklet, 14 new movement games for children. Potsdam, 1939
  • The job description of the doctor. (Doctor 15 (1939), 124–130)
  • The doctor at the front of the home. (Doctor 15 (1939), 267) November 8, 1939. (Doctor 15 (1939), 309)
  • The sexually ill child. (Doctor 15 (1939), 318–321)
  • Protection of young people in the family and in public. (Combating alcohol and tobacco hazards. 7.) Berlin-Dahlem, 1940
  • Tasks of women for an alcohol- and tobacco-free upbringing of youth. (Doctor 16 (1940), 380-181) The doctor. o. O. 1941, 3rd edition

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Max Planck Institute for the History of Science : Database of international networks of women academics
  2. ↑ a b c d women doctors in the empire charite.de
  3. ↑ Susanne Dettmer, Gabriele Kaczmarczyk, Astrid Bühren: Career planning for women doctors p. 24.
  4. ^ Johanna Bleker, Christine Eckelmann: The Association of German Doctors (BDÄ) 1933 to 1936 (PDF)
  5. ^ Haide Manns: Women for National Socialism, p. 238.
personal data
SURNAME Lölhöffel von Löwensprung, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unterberger, Edith (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and sports medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1941
Place of death Berlin