Martha Vygodzinsky

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Berlin city councilors 1919: Martha Hoppe , Helene Schmitz , Martha Wygodzinski, Martha Shiroa , Liesbeth Riedger , Anna Kulicke
Memorial plaque on the house, Neue Schönholzer Strasse 13, in Berlin-Pankow

Martha Hedwig Wygodzinski (born July 2, 1869 in Berlin ; † February 27, 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and the first female member of the " Berlin Medical Society ".

Life

Wygodzinski grew up with three sisters, including the SPD politician Wally Zepler , as the daughter of Max Meir Wÿgodzinski (1834–1909) and his wife Nanny Wÿgodzinski in an upper-class, Jewish family in Berlin. The father Max Max Wÿgodzinski was the founder of the "Israelite Teachers Home" in Berlin. Martha Wygodzinski studied at the University of Zurich , one of the few European universities that made it possible for women to study. She was involved in the bourgeois women's movement and in the SPD. After her license to practice medicine in 1902, she worked as a "doctor for the poor" in the Berlin districts of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg . In Pankow she opened the “ Polyclinic for Women” and a home for single mothers.

In 1927 she was elected to the Berlin Medical Association as a representative of the Working Group of Social Democratic Doctors . In 1933 she lost her position in the Berlin Medical Association and was expelled from the Association of German Doctors . She was able to continue her practice for Jewish patients until 1935. In 1938 her license to practice medicine was revoked because of her Jewish origin. On July 9, 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt (18th transport of old people), where she died eight months later.

politics

Wygodzinski was a Berlin city councilor for the SPD from 1919 to 1925 and campaigned for the abolition of Section 218 .

Stolperstein in Alexanderstraße 25

Memorial

In the Berlin district of Mitte on Alexanderstrasse, a “ stumbling block ” reminds of Martha Wygodzinski. A memorial plaque commemorates Vygodzinsky at Neue Schönholzer Str. 13 in the Berlin district of Pankow. The home she financed and operated for homeless single mothers and their newborns was located here.

literature

  • Dietlinde Peters: Martha Wygodzinski (1869-1943). "The angel of the poor". Berlin doctor - committed health politician. Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938485-80-4 .
  • Edith Schlesinger-Ahlfeld: Martha Wygodzinski. Memory of the first German female doctor. In: Aufbau , Volume 13, 1947, No. 18 (May 2, 1947), p. 30.
  • Active Museum Association : In Front of the Door - Berlin City Councilors and Magistrate Members persecuted under National Socialism 1933–1945 , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , p. 383 f.

Web links

Commons : Martha Wygodzinski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Stumbling blocks in Berlin. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://www.berlin.de/aktuell/verbindungen/2012/juni/suchangebote/artikel.224269.php Former "Israelitisches Lehrerinnenheim".
  3. ↑ Document stumbling block
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: document memorial plaque@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hentrichhentrich.de
personal data
SURNAME Vygodzinsky, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wygodzinski, Martha Hedwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German health politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1943
Place of death Theresienstadt concentration camp