Hermione Heusler-Edenhuizen

Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen (around 1930)

Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen (born March 16, 1872 at Pewsum Castle near Emden , † November 26, 1955 in Berlin ) was the first officially recognized gynecologist in Germany .

Life

The New Castle in Pewsum - Heusler-Edenhuizen's birthplace

Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen was born in Pewsum Castle near Emden in 1872 as the fourth of seven children of a doctor. At first she rejected her father's suggestion to prepare for a degree in the more liberal Switzerland .

After a serious illness, however, she got into a crisis of meaning and began to read a lot. In the course of this self-study in 1893 she came across the magazine Die Frau , in which Helene Lange offered high school courses for women. Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen then decided to catch up with the Abitur and passed it in 1898. She remained connected to Helene Lange all her life. Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen was one of the first women to graduate from high school.

Then Heusler-Edenhuizen began studying, but since women were not yet admitted to the universities, she had to ask the professor for permission for every lecture visit. Nevertheless, she studied medicine in Zurich , Halle and Bonn (exams 1903) and was the first in the empire to be trained as a specialist in gynecology .

In Bonn she met her future husband Otto Heusler and married him in 1912. This marriage was considered a scandal because Heusler divorced because of her and a marriage contract was concluded in favor of Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen. As a result, contrary to general law, the power of disposal over her property and the power to decide on her professional activity was not transferred to her husband.

Berlin memorial plaque in Berlin-Charlottenburg

As a gynecologist she had been established in Berlin since 1911 , where she practiced in a practice for private patients until 1937. Heusler-Edenhuizen was also a women's rights activist and has been advocating the abolition of Paragraph 218 since the 1920s . From 1924 to 1928 she was founding chairwoman of the Association of German Doctors .

Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen died at the end of November 1955 in a Berlin hospital as a result of a stroke. She was buried next to her husband, who died in 1943, in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in the Charlottenburg district (today's district of Berlin-Westend ), near the final resting place of Helene Lange. The grave of the Heusler couple has not survived.

Works (selection)

A detailed bibliography can be found in the appendix to the 1999 new edition of Heusler-Edenhuizen's memoirs .

Autobiographical

You have to dare! Memoirs of the first German female doctor. With a foreword by Heide Soltau. Reinbek near Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-22409-7 .
The child was much too big - when I became Germany's first specialist doctor. In: The German doctor. 3/1953, pp. 287ff.

Medical-scientific publications

About albuminuria in pregnant women and childbearing women. Inaugural dissertation. Bonn 1903.
A remarkable case of magenta tetany. In: Archives for Digestive Diseases. Vol. II, 1903, pp. 333-345.
On the question of preventing stretch marks. In: German Medical Weekly. 74, 1949, p. 247ff

Social policy publications

To §218 of the StGB. In: Soziale Praxis 1923. No. 32, 1924, pp. 649ff.
Experiences and wishes of a gynecologist. In: The physical training of women. Berlin 1925, p. 26ff.
Marriage issues - to the program of the marriage counseling centers. In: Quarterly magazine of the Federation of German Doctors. 3/1927, p. 5ff.

Others

Ladies and Gentlemen! Address to the Congress of the Medical Women's International Association. London 1924.
Expert opinion on greater resilience and higher sickness rates for teachers. In: The doctor. 8/1932, p. 161ff.

Honors

In honor of Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen, the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics has been awarding the Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen Prize for outstanding journalistic work that has contributed to increasing the public's knowledge of the importance of gynecology and since its 58th Congress in Munich in 2010 To improve obstetrics and the prevention and treatment of gynecological diseases. The first prizewinner is the ZDF journalist Nina Kupfer (editor ML Mona Lisa ) for her contribution "Alcohol in pregnancy."

literature

Brigitte Junge: From the learned woman to the woman doctor. Dr. Hermione Heusler-Edenhuizen. Historical Museum of the City of Aurich, Series of publications, Volume 18, 2012.
Heyo Prahm (ed.): Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen: The first German gynecologist. Memories in the struggle for a woman's medical profession. 3rd edition Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86649-494-7 .
Wiebke Schönbohm-Wilke: Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen: Decisive successes. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. 2000; 97 (8): A-465 / B-373 / C-353.
Peter Reinicke : Heusler-Edenhuizen, Harmine Egberta. In: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work. Lambertus, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 245f.
Hans Ludwig : Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen (1872–1955) - the first female doctor in Germany. In: Gynecologist. 51 (2018), pp. 683-684, DOI: 10.1007 / s00129-018-4271-z

Web links

Commons : Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen in the catalog of the German National Library
Hermine Egberta Heusler-Edenhuizen, b. Edenhuizen , with women doctors in the German Empire. Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Short biography of Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizens , at omeda.de, accessed on May 10, 2009

Individual evidence

↑ Breakthrough through prejudice. Accessed December 2, 2018 (German).
^ The high school courses for women. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
↑ biography. In: https://www.frauenorte-niedersachsen.de/files/flyer_h__edenhuizen__2_.pdf . Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
↑ Heyo Prahm (Ed.): Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen. The first German gynecologist. 3rd edition Budrich, Opladen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86649-494-7 . P. 232. (With photo of the grave.)
↑ Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen: You have to dare. Memoirs of the first German female doctor. With a foreword by Heide Soltau. Reinbek near Hamburg 1999, p. 186ff.
↑ DGGG press release

personal data
SURNAME	Heusler-Edenhuizen, Hermione
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heusler-Edenhuizen, Harmine Egberta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	first officially recognized and established gynecologist in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pewsum Castle near Emden
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1955
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Breakthrough through prejudice. Accessed December 2, 2018 (German).

[2] The high school courses for women. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .

[3] biography. In: https://www.frauenorte-niedersachsen.de/files/flyer_h__edenhuizen__2_.pdf . Retrieved December 2, 2018 .

[4] Heyo Prahm (Ed.): Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen. The first German gynecologist. 3rd edition Budrich, Opladen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86649-494-7 . P. 232. (With photo of the grave.)

[5] Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen: You have to dare. Memoirs of the first German female doctor. With a foreword by Heide Soltau. Reinbek near Hamburg 1999, p. 186ff.

[6] DGGG press release