Martha Schmidtmann

Martha Schmidtmann (born August 4, 1892 in Opole , Silesia; † April 28, 1981 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ) was a German doctor.

Life

In 1916 she was awarded the topic About finer structural changes in the muscle disuse atrophy at the University of Marburg doctorate . In 1925 she was one of the first women to qualify for pathology at the Medical Faculty in Leipzig . From 1930 to 1932 she was an unscheduled associate professor for general pathology and pathological anatomy at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig .

Her next professional station took her to Stuttgart, where she was appointed head of the Pathological Institute at the Stuttgart-Cannstatt Hospital by the Stuttgart City Council. After 1933 she joined the NSDAP and the NS-Ärztebund. Because of this, she was dismissed from the city service after the end of the war by order of the American military authorities; she then founded a private pathology laboratory. In 1950 she was appointed director of the Pathological Institute at the Katharinenhospital.

In 1968 she was made an honorary senator of the University of Marburg. At the end of the 1990s, a street called Martha-Schmidtmann-Strasse was named in her honor, which borders the Bad Cannstatt Clinic.

Works

Motor transport and public health. Are there chronic car exhaust damage? Experimental investigations on gasoline engines , Jena, 1934.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Doctors in the Empire. In: Institute for the History of Medicine and for Ethics in Medicine, Charité, Berlin. Charité Berlin, 2015, accessed on December 27, 2017 (German).

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidtmann, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	4th August 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Opole , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 1981
Place of death	Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt

[1] Doctors in the Empire. In: Institute for the History of Medicine and for Ethics in Medicine, Charité, Berlin. Charité Berlin, 2015, accessed on December 27, 2017 (German).