Frieda Nugel

Frieda Nugel (born June 18, 1884 in Cottbus ; † November 6, 1966 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German mathematician . She is one of the first women from Germany to do a doctorate in mathematics.

Live and act

Nugel was the fourth of six children of the teacher and organist Artur Nugel and his wife Marie Bombe. After attending the girls' middle school in Cottbus and the girls' higher school, she passed the exam as a teacher for middle and higher girls' schools in 1906. In 1907 she passed the final examination at the Luisenstädtische Oberschule in Berlin and studied mathematics, physics and German at the University of Berlin until 1909. In 1909 she deepened her mathematical studies at the University of Munich for a semester with Ferdinand Lindemann and Aurel Voss . Until 1912 she studied at the then United Friedrichs University, today's Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where she did her doctorate under August Gutzmeron the subject of “The helical lines. A monographic representation ”. In the same year she passed the state examination in mathematics, physics and German. After that, she was deputy senior teacher at the Augusta School in Cottbus until 1914. In 1914 she married Louis Hahn, who had a doctorate in German studies and historian, with whom she had 4 children. From 1918 to 1927 she taught exclusively privately and also published works that advocate civil rights and better education for women. In 1927 she got a part-time position at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Viktoria-Schule in Emden . In 1930 she was made a student councilor, but received 10% less salary than her male colleagues. Since she could no longer be moved as a married woman with four children, her position there was permanent. In 1962 the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Halle awarded her the “Golden Doctorate” award on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of her dissertation from 1912. Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann in Tübingen had prepared an expert opinion in which he assessed her dissertation from 1912 as "mathematically and historically particularly valuable".

Publications

The helical lines. A monographic representation, 1912
The German housewife and the war, 1916
Women's movement and child emancipation, 1919
The woman in the local government, 1921
The Upper Lyceum, 1924
State and City of Hamburg: The three-year elementary school from the mother's point of view, 1925

literature

Renate Tobies : “In spite of all male culture”: women in mathematics and science . Campus Verlag, 1997, ISBN 9783593357492
Beck, Hanno: A champion of women's studies: Frieda Hahn 50 years of Dr. phil. - One of the first women to do a doctorate in mathematics, Ostfriesische Zeitung, Aurich 17 (1962) No. 157 of July 19, p. 3.
Beck, Hanno: A 50-year doctorate anniversary - Frieda Hahn: champion of women's studies, Rhein-Weser-Ems-Zeitung, July 9, 1962 (also abbreviated in General-Anzeiger; Bonn)
Donner, Helmut: Struggle for women's rights, Der Märkische Bote, 9./10. July 1994
Donner, Helmut: Dr. Frieda Nugel, Der Märkische Bote, 8./9. July 1998
Donner, Helmut: Dr. Frieda Hahn, b. Nugel, (June 18, 1884 - November 6, 1966): A researcher and educator's life, unprinted source documentation, illustrated, 196 pages in 4 volumes, Cottbus 1999
Drangosch, Walter: Cottbus faces: Dr. Frieda Nugel, Neue Cottbuser Zeitung, March 17, 1967
Haufe, Heinz: For the first female doctor: A woman from Cottbus received her doctorate in Halle, Der Morgen, Berlin (edition of the Cottbus district), 1912, no. 255 from November 1, 1912

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personal data
SURNAME	Nugel, Frieda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 18, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	cottbus
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1966
Place of death	bad Godesberg