Hedwig Hahn

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Hedwig Hahn (born Trowitzsch ; born October 18, 1891 in Frankfurt / Oder ; † November 16, 1980 ibid) was a German doctor in Frankfurt (Oder).

Life

Hahn Villa

The father Eugen Trowitzsch (1854-1904) was a publisher and city councilor in Frankfurt (Oder), the mother Hedwig nee von Padberg (1867-1951). The girl attended the Westend grammar school in Berlin and graduated from high school in 1914. Then she was one of the first women in Germany to study medicine in Halle , Munich and Würzburg . In 1919 she received her doctorate with Die Infantsterblichkeit in Würzburg 1905 to 1914 according to the individual districts .

In 1920 Hedwig married the physician Rudolf Hahn (1892–1962). She became an assistant doctor in the hospital in Frankfurt and opened a doctor's practice in her father's villa together with her husband in 1921/22 . In the spring of 1945 she helped many seriously injured and sick people.

Hedwig Hahn was also a lecturer at the vocational and women's technical college in Frankfurt and volunteered in maternal counseling and baby care in Frankfurt. In 1965 she made the lower part of the villa available for the cabinet of the Galerie Junge Kunst , which was able to use the whole building after her death in 1980.

Hedwig and Rudolf Hahn had sons Matthias and Winfried Hahn.

In 2012, Dr.-Hedwig-Hahn-Straße in Frankfurt (Oder) was named after her, as one of four streets in the city named after women. The Hedwigsberg was named after her mother, then the street Am Hedwigsberg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Streets named after women . In: Märkische Oderzeitung from February 21, 2012. online
  2. ↑ Did you know (No. 2) places for women
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trowitzsch, Hedwig (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1980
Place of death Frankfurt / Oder