Gertrud Meissner

Gertrud Meißner (born April 16, 1895 in Wollin ( Pomerania ), † November 20, 1985 in Borstel ( Holstein )) was a German doctor .

Gertrud Meißner studied medicine in Berlin , Jena and Greifswald from 1915 . At the University of Greifswald , where she worked scientifically at the Hygiene Institute from 1921 to 1927 , she received her doctorate in 1922, and in 1928 she qualified as a professor in bacteriology and hygiene at the University of Breslau . There she worked as a private lecturer at the Bacteriological Hygiene Institute and from 1935 to 1945 as the head of a medical-diagnostic institute and at the institute for medical-technical assistants.

In 1945 Gertrud Meißner fled from Breslau to Schleswig-Holstein . From 1948 she was head of the microbiological laboratory of the tuberculosis research center Borstel near Hamburg . Since 1961 she has taught at the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg as an honorary professor.

She wrote around 200 scientific papers on various problems of medical bacteriology and serology as well as on chemotherapy for tuberculosis and was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1960 when she was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class . In 1966 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Kiel .

In 1965 she received the Robert Koch Prize .

literature

• Hans Reddemann : Famous and notable doctors from and in Pomerania. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2003, ISBN 978-3-935749-24-4 , p. 114.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gertrud Meißner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Meissner, Gertrud . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
• Documentation women doctors in the empire