Käthe Voderberg

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Käthe Voderberg (born Nehls ; born August 1, 1910 in Stralsund ; † May 10, 1978 ) was a German botanist . She was professor and director of the Institute for Botany at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

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Käthe Voderberg, whose father was a civil servant with the Reichsbahn, attended middle school and the upper lyceum in Stralsund with the Abitur in 1930. She studied natural sciences (biology, chemistry) and mathematics in Hamburg , Berlin , Innsbruck and Greifswald from 1930 to 1935 . In 1936 she wrote her dissertation in biology at the University of Greifswald ( on the leukocyte elements in the mucous membrane of the digestive tract of the salamandrins ). She then worked as a research assistant at the Hereditary Science Institute in Greifswald, where she dealt with Drosophila . She had to give up that in 1935 when she got married. After the University of Greifswald reopened, she received a teaching position for botany there in 1946. In 1947 she completed her habilitation at the University of Greifswald on the hare's paw ( Coprinus lagopus ) ( on the fruiting body formation and nutritional physiology of Coprinus lagopus ) and became a lecturer in Greifswald. In July 1952 she became a full professor and director of the Institute for Agricultural Botany at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which she built up. For the institute she also managed the establishment of a botanical garden in Berlin-Köpenick. From 1956 to 1958 she was the head of the agricultural department . From December 1960 to November 1962 she was the first female scientist in the faculty and the second of the entire Humboldt University in Berlin to be dean of the agricultural and horticultural faculty. In 1961 she became a professor. At that time she worked on weed control and the biology of wild oats and became a member of the Presidium of the Biological Society of the GDR. In 1970 she retired. She died in 1978.

She was married to the mathematician Heinz Voderberg , who died in 1945 , and had two daughters with him, Linda (* 1938) and Mathilde (* 1944).

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  1. ↑ a b Voderberg .
  2. ↑ women's database fembio.org .
  3. ^ Franz Kössler, Ekkehard Höxtermann: On the history of botany in Berlin and Potsdam: Change and new beginning after 1945 . Publishing house for science and regional history, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3929134284 , OCLC 44849921 .
  4. ↑ The role of women in the Botanical Association of Berlin and Brandenburg ( en , PDF)
  5. ↑ Great unknown: Käthe Voderberg . July 30, 2010.
  6. ^ Konrad Hugo Jarausch, Matthias Middell, Heinz-Elmar Tenorth: Socialist experiment and renewal in democracy: the Humboldt University of Berlin, 1945-2010 , Humboldt University of Berlin. President., ISBN 9783050063133 , OCLC 876136873 .
  7. ↑ The long road to equal opportunities .
personal data
SURNAME Voderberg, Käthe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nehls, Käthe (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1978