Klotilde Gollwitzer-Meier

Klotilde Gollwitzer-Meier (born October 29, 1894 in Wolnzach , † March 2, 1954 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor and physiologist .

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Klotilde Gollwitzer-Meier was the daughter of a doctor, against whose resistance she studied medicine in Munich from 1913 to 1918 . After completing her doctorate on "The determination of the blood reaction from the carbonic acid binding curve" with Hermann Straub , she worked as an assistant doctor at the Medical Polyclinic in Halle and in Greifswald. After completing her habilitation in internal medicine, she became senior physician in 1927 and associate professor at the Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen University Clinic in 1928 . In 1929 she became chief physician in the internal department of the Hildegard Hospital in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

In 1931 Gollwitzer-Meier was in discussion for a chair for physiology at the University of Göttingen, in 1933 for a chair for general and experimental pathology. However, neither of these positions was offered to her. In 1932 she took over the management of the Balneological Institute in Bad Oeynhausen , which was destroyed in World War II, as Arthur Bornstein's successor . Gollwitzer-Meier then moved to the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . Here she received a director's position at the Institute for Experimental Balneology in 1945 and an associate professor of the same name in 1947. In 1949 she received a teaching post from Sheffield University ; In 1950, she turned down a call to the University of Istanbul for a full professorship in physiopathology. In addition, Gollwitzer-Meier gave lectures at international physiological congresses.

In 1923 she married the doctor Hans Gollwitzer and in 1932 the doctor Christian Kroetz.

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Gollwitzer-Meier Clinic in Bad Oeynhausen

Since she was a woman, Klotilde Gollwitzer-Meier experienced disadvantages in her academic and university career. Presumably it received more recognition internationally than nationally. She researched and published on topics related to the pathophysiology of the heart, the regulation of the blood circulation , the acid-base balance and experimental, physiologically precise balneology . Her list of publications includes 157 papers. She was also considered an excellent experimenter.

Honors

The new building of the Institute for Balneology in Bad Oeynhausen, built from 1952 onwards, has borne the name of Klotilde Gollwitzer-Meier since 1955.

literature

Kai Sammet: Gollwitzer-Meier, Klotilde . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 138-139 .
Heike Huschauer: "If she were a man, she would have held a chair for a long time". Prof. Dr. Klothilde Gollwitzer-Meier (1894–1954) . In: Often in the shade - rarely in the light. Life pictures of Bad Oeynhausen women (= contributions to local history of the cities of Löhne and Bad Oeynhausen . Special issue 10). Löhne 2000, ISBN 3-9805205-4-4 , p. 75-81 .
Traute Hoffmann: Prof. Dr. Klothilde Kroetz, called Gollwitzer-Meier . in: The first German Zonta Club. In the footsteps of extraordinary women , ed. von ders., Dölling and Galitz, 2nd, changed. Ed., Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-937904-43-6 , pp. 51-55.

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↑ According to Huschauer (2000), p. 81, “Klotilde” is the name version in the death register; “Clotide” is given in the birth register and “Klothilde” in the list of her scientific work.

personal data
SURNAME	Gollwitzer-Meier, Klotilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gollwitzer-Meier, Klothilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolnzach
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1954
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] According to Huschauer (2000), p. 81, “Klotilde” is the name version in the death register; “Clotide” is given in the birth register and “Klothilde” in the list of her scientific work.