Ida Hoff

Adelaide "Ida" Hoff (born January 8, 1880 in Moscow ; † August 5, 1952 in Bern , originally USA , naturalized in 1908 in Damvant , Canton Jura ) was an early Swiss doctor with her own practice and suffragette .

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Origin and family

Adelaide "Ida" Hoff was the daughter of Siegfried, a German-American dentist and businessman who probably made money in Russia thanks to Hoff's malt preparations. The family was of Jewish faith. The Baltic mother, Anna Naschatier, moved to Switzerland with her daughter after the separation (divorce only in 1890). Following the example of good acquaintances, she joined the large colony of Russian female students in Zurich, but was only able to follow literary and philosophy lectures as a listener due to insufficient educational background. Her daughter Ida, however, should be seriously trained. Anna and Ida Hoff moved to Bern. At the Bern high school, which Ida graduated with the Matura in 1899 , she had only one colleague: Clara Winnicki , who later became Switzerland's first female pharmacist .

education and profession

Hoff studied medicine in Bern from 1899. After passing the state examination in 1905, she continued her education in Berlin and did her doctorate in 1906 with the Bernese pathologist Theodor Langhans with a contribution to the histology of pregnancy . The internist Hermann Sahli accepted Adelaide Hoff as his first female assistant or senior physician. From 1911 she ran a practice for internal medicine in Bern. From 1913 to 1945 Ida Hoff was Bern's first school doctor . She promoted therapeutic gymnastics and prophylaxis against goiter and tuberculosis .

Suffragette

Ida Hoff advocated women 's issues at an early stage, in particular Swiss women's right to vote and vote . She was involved in the Bern student association, which fought for "equal rights - equal duties". Hoff was a board member of the Bern women's suffrage association. In 1921 she took part in the Second Swiss Congress for Women's Interests . In 1928 she worked on the First Swiss Exhibition for Women’s Labor (SAFFA), where her work as a school doctor was pictured in a frieze . She politically supported the 1933 movement Women and Democracy , which stood up against right-wing extremist fronts and for democracy. In terms of social policy, Hoff advocated the old age and survivors' insurance, AHV, introduced in Switzerland in 1948 .

Private life

Hoff was one of the first women in Bern to drive a car, both professionally and privately . She was passionate about nature and painting and was the lifelong partner of the first regular professor, Anna Tumarkin . With the philosopher she formed a living, grave and inheritance community.

literature

• Franziska Rogger: The doctoral hat in the broom cupboard. Bern 1999, pp. 62–63, 174–175.
• Barbara Traber: Bernese women. Bern 1980, p. 118 f.
• Dr. med. Ida Hoff, 1880–1952: [dedicated to the memory of Ida Hoff by her friends]. Bern 1952. (Festschrift Ida Hoff).

Web links

• Franziska Rogger: Hoff, Ida. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Franziska Rogger: Goiter campaign, malt sweets and women's rights . On the 50th anniversary of the death of the first school doctor in Bern, Dr. med. Ida Hoff, 1880–1952. In: Bern journal for history and local history . Vol. 64, no. 3, 2002, pp. 101–119 ( bezg.ch [PDF; accessed on May 11, 2015]).