Irmgard Gylstorff

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Irmgard Maria Gylstorff , b. Hampp, formerly Saßenhoff, (born April 3, 1912 in Munich ; † June 27, 1990 there ) was a German scientist and the first West German professor of veterinary medicine .

Life

Irmgard Hampp was the daughter of a primary school teacher and grew up on her grandparents' farm in the Swabian administrative district . She attended the girls 'college or girls ' reform school until 1931 and in the same year began her studies in veterinary medicine as one of three women among 400 male fellow students at the veterinary faculty of the LMU in Munich. In 1933 she married the Dipl. Agr. Julius Saßenhoff , successfully completed her studies in 1935 and initially worked at the slaughterhouse in Munich until shortly before her license to practice medicine and doctorate in mid-1936. vet. med. Irmgard Saßenhoff at the Animal Pathological Institute of the University of Munich, first as a scientific assistant and from 1939 as director. Despite the closure of the veterinary faculty as the only faculty of the University of Munich after the outbreak of World War II and the severe destruction of the institution's building by bombing, it was possible for the institute to carry out the examinations of the institute for animal pathology in the laboratories of the horse hospital on the Oberwiesenfeld to secure the further use of this area by the veterinary faculty through their work . In her role as the first German official veterinarian from 1939, she had to constantly prove herself in her profession, especially to her military colleagues. After the end of the war, from 1945 to 1952 she was the scheduled assistant of the Animal Pathology Institute and from 1945 to 1960 also head of the small animal health service of the Bavarian State Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (StMLF). 1952 habilitation in the meantime divorced mother of two children in specialized pathology is the first after the war at the Munich School and was initially lecturer , from 1958 then unscheduled professor . This made her the first female veterinary professor in West Germany. In 1960 she went to the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover as the first professor in Western Europe for poultry diseases and animal hygiene and returned to Munich in 1965 to the chair for poultry science , which she held until retirement in 1981. In the meantime, she was elected Dean of the Veterinary Faculty in 1969 and Vice Dean in 1971.

Irmgard Gylstorff is considered to be the founder of the field of poultry diseases and has received numerous awards and honors for her scientific achievements. In Munich the Irmgard-Gylstorff-Straße is named after her.

literature

  • Helga Gerlach, Josef Kösters: Prof Dr. Irmgard Gylstorff in memory . In: Monthly Veterinary Medicine , Vol. 45 (1990).

Web links

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  1. ↑ Tiermed. Faculty of the LMU: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (since 1914) , first section (1914–1939), (as of March 2007)
  2. ↑ Bettina Adele Maurer: http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/1998/65/maure.pdf , 1997, FU Berlin, Diss. 1997
  3. ^ Muenchen.de: Street renaming in 2004 (status: February 2007)
personal data
SURNAME Gylstorff, Irmgard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hampp, Irmgard; Gylstorff, Irmgard Maria; Saßenhoff, Irmgard; Gylstorff-Sassenhoff, Irmgard; Gylstorff-Saßenhoff, Irmgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural scientist and first West German professor of veterinary medicine
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1990
Place of death Munich