Ellen Schmidt (University Rector)

Ellen Schmidt (born 1924 in Freiburg ; died on August 24, 2012 in Isernhagen ) was a German doctor and chemist . She was the first woman from 1977 to 1979 to be the rector of the Hannover Medical School (MHH).

Life

Ellen Schmidt studied medicine from 1943, but interrupted her studies, which she had begun in the Second World War , to work as a nurse in a war hospital. In the post-war period she continued her medical studies, supplemented by chemistry. In 1950 she did her doctorate in Düsseldorf.

After stops in Mainz, Kassel and Marburg, she went to Hanover in 1965 with her husband Friedrich Werner Schmidt, who had been appointed professor of gastroenterology at the MHH.

In 1967 she completed her habilitation and was appointed adjunct professor in 1971. In 1974 she received a university professorship for experimental hepatology at the MHH and took over the management of the research laboratory of the gastroenterology department .

Ellen Schmidt researched the enzyme specificity of the liver in particular. Together with Friedrich Werner Schmidt, she founded clinical enzyme research and the development of models for determining enzyme values in blood serum.

Honor

In 2012 the habilitation program for female scientists at MHH was renamed the Ellen Schmidt Program (ESP).

Works (selection)

with Friedrich Werner Schmidt: Doctor and Enzyme , Boehringer GmbH, Mannheim 1968
with Friedrich Werner Schmidt: Basic questions in enzyme diagnostics , Boehringer-Mannheim-GmbH, Mannheim 1970
with Friedrich Werner Schmidt: Small Enzyme Primer: Practical Enzyme Diagnostics , 3rd, partially revised edition, Mannheim: Böhringer 1981 (first 1973)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Rectors and Presidents of the MHH. In: Website of the MHH. Hannover Medical School , accessed on March 8, 2020 .
↑ Bärbel Miemietz (eds.), Margarethe Hochleitner, Anja Vervoorts, Hannover Medical School : Professor Dr. med. Ellen Schmidt . In: Klinika Frauenkalender 2018. Doctors and scientists from 1715 to today , Hannover 2017 (PDF)
↑ Reinhard Pabst : Consistently modern. The beginnings of the Hannover Medical School . 1st edition. Lehmanns Media GmbH, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-96543-040-2 , p. 40 .
↑ Vita at dgvs.de , accessed on April 23, 2020

↑ top v .: Support of individual life plans , in: Final report of the Hannover Medical School on the implementation of the research-oriented equality standards of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from January 31, 2013, p. 10f. Hannover Medical School, January 13, 2013, accessed on March 12, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor, first female rector at the Hannover Medical School
DATE OF BIRTH	1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiburg
DATE OF DEATH	August 24, 2012
Place of death	Isernhagen

[Rektoren_der_MHH-1] Rectors and Presidents of the MHH. In: Website of the MHH. Hannover Medical School , accessed on March 8, 2020 .

[2] Bärbel Miemietz (eds.), Margarethe Hochleitner, Anja Vervoorts, Hannover Medical School : Professor Dr. med. Ellen Schmidt . In: Klinika Frauenkalender 2018. Doctors and scientists from 1715 to today , Hannover 2017 (PDF)

[:0-3] Reinhard Pabst : Consistently modern. The beginnings of the Hannover Medical School . 1st edition. Lehmanns Media GmbH, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-96543-040-2 , p. 40 .

[4] Vita at dgvs.de , accessed on April 23, 2020

[5] top v .: Support of individual life plans , in: Final report of the Hannover Medical School on the implementation of the research-oriented equality standards of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from January 31, 2013, p. 10f. Hannover Medical School, January 13, 2013, accessed on March 12, 2020 .