Hedwig Dinkel

Hedwig Braun-Dinkel (* December 5, 1885 in Friedrichshafen as Hedwig Dinkel, † December 18, 1977 in Stuttgart ) was the first state-certified doctor in Württemberg.

Life

Hedwig Dinkel was the daughter of a collaborator at the Latin school in Weinsberg. In her youth she attended the Latin school in Weinsberg and from April 17, 1899 she was one of the first students at the newly founded girls' high school in Stuttgart. She graduated from high school with Gertrud Stockmayer , Anna Stettenheimer and Martha Vollmöller in 1904 as an external student at the humanistic grammar school in Cannstatt , as the pupils could not yet take the high school diploma at their own school. The four students were the first high school graduates in Württemberg.

As the only one of the first group of high school graduates, she did not go to the University of Tübingen, but first to Munich. From autumn 1904 to 1911 she studied medicine in Munich and Tübingen . In the winter of 1909 she passed her state examination in Munich. In the autumn of 1909 she was the first woman from Württemberg to take the state medical examination and at the age of 22 she was the youngest female doctor. Between January 1910 and January 31, 1911 she was a medical intern at the Pathological Institute in Tübingen, from February 1 to August 31, 1911 in the surgical department of the Cannstatt Municipal Hospital and from September 1 to December 31, 1911 in the State Department's internal ward Karl Olga Hospital Stuttgart. On January 1, 1911, she received her license to practice medicine, and on September 8, 1911, she received her doctorate in Tübingen.

In 1912 she married Heinrich Braun, also a doctor, whom she met at the surgical hospital in Stuttgart-Cannstatt. The couple had four children. Her daughter Anneliese Braun became a pediatrician in Cannstatt.

From 1918 to 1937 she operated with her husband, a group practice in Stuttgart-Cannstatt. At first she was listed as her husband's assistant at the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians. After her husband's health deteriorated, she was licensed as a general practitioner in group practice and practiced until 1956.

On December 5, 1976, on her 90th birthday, she received the Albert Schweitzer Medal from the Baden-Württemberg Medical Association.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Equal Opportunities Office of the University of Tübingen (Ed.): 100 Years of Women's Studies at the University of Tübingen 1904–2004 - Historical overview, reports from contemporary witnesses and contemporary documents . 2007 ( uni-tuebingen.de [accessed on April 28, 2018]).
2. ↑ Markus Schnöpf, Oliver Pohl: Doctors in the Empire. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .