Else Knake

Else Knake (born June 7, 1901 in Berlin , † May 8, 1973 in Mainz ) was a German physician and cell researcher and later head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry , later in the Max Planck Society . In 1946 she was appointed the first female dean at a university in Germany .

Life

She studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1921 to 1926 and received her doctorate in 1929 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Berlin on “The treatment of liver disease with insulin and glucose taking into account childhood”. From 1929 to 1932 she was a research guest at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem . From 1932 to 1935 she was an assistant at the Berlin University, from 1935 she worked as an employee in the Pathological Institute of the Medical Faculty of the University of Berlin, where she was the unofficial head of the department for experimental cell research and “Head of the III. Department of Experimental Cell Research ”.

In 1940 she completed her habilitation with the thesis "Contribution to the question of tissue correlation". In 1943 she moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, where she got her own department for cell research. From 1945 to 1963 she and her department belonged to various institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm and Max Planck Society. In addition, in January 1946 she was appointed professor with a teaching position at the Medical Faculty of the University of Berlin, of which she became dean in August 1946 and vice dean in October of the same year. For political reasons she was deposed from this position by Rector Johannes Stroux because she supported the students. Since 1948 she was an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin . From 1962 until her retirement due to illness, she was head of the research center for tissue engineering in the Max Planck Society . In 1963 she resigned as head of department due to a serious illness. In 1970 she moved to Mainz, where she died in 1973.

Else Knake started out as a doctor, then changed research areas and worked on cell research, including tissue engineering .

literature

Siegward Lönnendonker : Free University. Foundation of a political university. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-428-06490-9 .
James F. Tent : Free University of Berlin 1948–1988. A German university in current affairs. Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7678-0744-0 .
Annette Vogt : The Kaiser Wilhelm Society dared. Women as department heads . In: Renate Tobies (Ed.): “All male culture in spite of”. Women in math and science . Campus, Frankfurt a. M./New York 1997, ISBN 3-593-35749-6 , pp. 216 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Ulla Ruschhaupt, Heide Reinsch: The first years after the reopening of the university 1946–1951. In: From the exception to the everyday. Women at the Berlin University Unter den Linden. Edited by the exhibition group at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Center for Interdisciplinary Women's Studies. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89626-103-7 , pp. 151-171.
Helga Satzinger: Adolf Butenandt, hormones and gender. Ingredients of a scientific career. In: Wolfgang Schieder , Achim Trunk (ed.): Adolf Butenandt and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Science, industry and politics in the “Third Reich”. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-752-7 , ( History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism 7), esp. Pp. 118-133.
Annette Vogt: The guest departments in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society - examples of international cooperation. In: Horst Kant , Annette Vogt (ed.): From the history and theory of science. Hubert Laitko presented by friends, colleagues and students on his 70th birthday. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Engel, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-929134-49-7 , pp. 331, 343.
Annette Vogt: From the back entrance to the main portal? Lise Meitner and her colleagues at the Berlin University and in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-08881-7 , ( Pallas Athene 17).
Annette Vogt: Scientists in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. A – Z. 2nd expanded edition. Archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-927579-12-5 , ( publications from the archive for the history of the Max Planck Society 12), pp. 93–94.
Research Center for Tissue Cultivation in the Max Planck Society (BMS) , in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbook on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - Data and Sources, Berlin 2016 , 2 volumes, volume 1: Institutes and research centers A – L ( online, PDF, 75 MB ), pp. 583–586

Web links

Else Knake's biography

Individual evidence

^ Andreas Malycha, Udo Schagen: The Medical Faculty of the Berlin University and its relationship to the central university authorities 1945 to 1949. Central conflicts in the run-up to the establishment of the Free University of Berlin. In: Michael Lemke (ed.): Showcase of system competition. The Berlin-Brandenburg region during the Cold War. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006. pp. 225–246. ISBN 978-3-412-02606-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Knake, Else
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor, cell researcher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	May 8, 1973
Place of death	Mainz

[1] Andreas Malycha, Udo Schagen: The Medical Faculty of the Berlin University and its relationship to the central university authorities 1945 to 1949. Central conflicts in the run-up to the establishment of the Free University of Berlin. In: Michael Lemke (ed.): Showcase of system competition. The Berlin-Brandenburg region during the Cold War. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006. pp. 225–246. ISBN 978-3-412-02606-6 .