Elfriede Cohnen

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Elfriede Cohnen (* 1901 ; † 1979 ) was a German lawyer and doctor.

Studies and professional life

After studying law and completing her doctorate , the daughter of Bernhard Cohnen , owner of the Cohnen and Neuhaus textile machine factory in Grevenbroich , was one of the first women in Germany to be admitted to the bar. In 1932, Wolfgang Abendroth also worked in her office as part of his legal clerkship .

Like many intellectuals, she supported the political aid organization Rote Hilfe Deutschland , which had set itself the task of providing legal support to those in need of prosecution regardless of the person. On the basis of the National Socialist Reich Law on Admission to the Bar of April 7, 1933, which basically applies to lawyers of "non-Aryan" origin with certain exceptions (§§ 1–2) and for lawyers with previous practice "in the communist sense" (§ 3) The professional ban provided for her license was withdrawn in 1933 on the basis of this latter paragraph.

Cohnen then changed his profession and studied medicine. In 1941, she was in Cologne with a dissertation about the organization of the use of social doctorate and worked for many years in Grevenbroich as Specialist for radiology .

Others

In 2003, the working group of the Equal Opportunities Commissioner in the Rhine district of Neuss included Elfriede Cohnen as a strong woman in the corresponding report on women's street names (2nd part). The second part lists those women for the individual cities and municipalities in the district area who can be taken into account when naming new streets. In this respect, the list is an offer of names for the political bodies that deal with the naming of streets.

Publications

  • A life like others. An autobiographical novel . Verlag Salzer, Heilbronn 1979, ISBN 3-7936-0211-7

Remarks

  1. ^ Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich 1933 - 1940: Adaptation and Submission in the Gürtner era , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2001 (= sources and representations on contemporary history, 28; ISBN 3-486-53833-0 ), p. 139
  2. ↑ The reason given by Barbara Dölemeyer, The elimination of Jews from the legal profession in the Frankfurt1933-1945.de portal (last accessed on May 10, 2008)

literature

  • Heinz-Jürgen Schneider / Erika Schwarz / Josef Schwarz: The lawyers of the Red Aid of Germany: Political defense lawyers in the Weimar Republic, history and biographies. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-89144-330-7
  • Martin Schumacher: Name similarity as a reason for exclusion? The case of the Frankfurt lawyer Elfriede Cohnen and the cleansing of the legal profession in Prussia in 1933 , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (VfZ), Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 19-51 (2011). doi : 10.1524 / vfzg.2011.0002

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personal data
SURNAME Cohnen, Elfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
DATE OF DEATH 1979